Single-Well Ordered List Item Type – Support for Athena Browser Edition

A new response type has been added to support Athena Pearson Browser Edition examinations: the Single-Well Ordered List. This item type features only a single well containing all list elements. Candidates reorder the tokens directly within this single well, eliminating the need to move items from a source to a target well. Author, manage, and publish Single-Well items into Pearson Athena Browser edition examinations.

Item Writing – Add Minus Sign Symbol

A dedicated minus sign symbol (−) has been added to distinguish it from the en dash (–) and hyphen (-). This enhancement improves accessibility, particularly for screen readers, by ensuring mathematical expressions are interpreted correctly.

Item Usage – Enhanced p-Value and Count Calculations

Now, p-values and response counts can be calculated for each delivery window, improving accuracy in usage analytics. However, the Data pop-up in the item view will continue to show cumulative p-value and count data across all windows. Omitted responses are excluded from all p-value and count calculations.

Item Search will search on the cumulative p-value. Its associated column description has been updated to “P-value Cumulative for all Windows”.

Publication – Native QTI Table Border Support for Pearson Athena Desktop

Pro! supports publishing items with borderless tables to Pearson’s desktop native QTI format. While table borders can still be authored as usual in Pro!, setting the table and cell border-width to zero will be correctly interpreted during QTI generation.

Because Pearson’s pearsonvue:mat_extension QTI element does not support inline style attributes, Pro! has been enhanced to translate border-width: 0 into the appropriate rules=”none” and frame=”void” QTI attributes. Table borders will either be on or off.

No changes are required in item authoring, and existing content will continue to work as expected. This enhancement ensures tables without borders render as intended in the Athena Desktop environment.

Item Reference Notes – Expandable Editor for Improved Usability

The reference note editor in the Item Reference Notes pop-up supports manual vertical resizing. Users can expand the input area from the default three lines up to 15 lines for easier editing of longer notes. Once the maximum height is reached, a vertical scrollbar will appear.

User Experience Update – Item Authoring and Review

The item authoring and review interface has been redesigned to provide a cleaner, more intuitive experience that maximizes screen space and minimizes unnecessary scrolling. Key improvements include:

• A streamlined layout for improved usability and efficiency.
• Side-by-side rationale editing for better context during item review.
• Dynamic WYSIWYG editors whose menus appear only when editing, reducing visual clutter.
• Retained support for all existing business rules and functionality.
• Authors can alphabetize answer choices with a single click using the button beside the Answer Choices label.

These enhancements make it easier for users to focus on content creation and review.

Item Writing – Add Minus Sign Symbol

A dedicated minus sign symbol (−) has been added to distinguish it from the en dash (–) and hyphen (-). This enhancement improves accessibility, particularly for screen readers, by ensuring mathematical expressions are interpreted correctly.

Item Review – Independent Acceptance of Rationale Components

Previously, when a reviewer accepted the stem or answer choices, the associated rationales were automatically accepted, and the rationale checkboxes were disabled. With this update, all checkboxes—including those for stem rationale and answer choice rationales—are now enabled by default. Reviewers can independently accept or reject each component, providing greater flexibility during the item review process.

Get Item Comments

This endpoint retrieves all comments associated with a specific item and has been updated to include the Poolbook ID in its response.

Sample Response:

[

{

“poolbookId”: 0,

“itemId”: 0,

“masterCode”: “string”,

“author”: “string”,

“createdAt”: “2025-06-03T17:41:45.818Z”,

“comment”: “string”,

“isInternal”: true,

“attachmentFileName”: “string”,

“attachment”: “string”

}

]

See the Swagger documentation for API details.

Pro! Back Office

• Approved References: The approved references dropdown now only displays references with an Active status, preventing inactive references from appearing in the list.

• Alphabetization Logic: Answer Choice alphabetization now correctly orders options by treating uppercase and lowercase letters equivalently (A, a, B, b, etc.), rather than prioritizing uppercase letters first.
• Bulk Update: Bulk updates now correctly update both the Item Writer and Created By fields, ensuring data consistency.
• Classification Ordering: Classification entries are now ordered numerically when they begin with numbers and there are more than nine entries, resolving the issue where entries 10+ appeared between 1 and 2 in the item editing screen.
• Passage Authoring: The Content tab has been removed and is available within the View dropdown.
• Passage Authoring: In Passage Authoring, the Item ID and Mastercode Item View table columns are now hyperlinks that open the associated item.
• Pearson Desktop QTI – Dropped Space: Publishing multiple forms to Pearson Desktop QTI no longer results in dropped spaces within direction items.
• Pearson Exam Compilation: When multiple forms are published for a Pearson examination, the exam compiles successfully without multiple calculator definitions.
• Relationships: The Master Code column is now a hyperlink. Clicking it now correctly opens the associated item.
• Rejection Reason Pop-Up: The rejection reason pop-up appears immediately when the user selects Rejected from the status dropdown. If the pop-up is dismissed without entering a reason and the user attempts to save with a rejected status, an error will be displayed, preventing the save.
• User-Defined Fields: When saving a UDF for the first time, the system no longer writes multiple records to the database.

Pro! Remote Item Authoring and Review

• Complete Review Dialog: The Thumbs Up (accept as is) text in the Complete Review dialog is now properly sized.