About the Banner

The banner, which appears at the top of all the pages in ITS, provides information about the item bank to which you are logged in and your current user role, along with some menus and controls.

Note that the menus in the banner vary depending on your current user role. For example, the Content Rater menu displays only when you are logged in with a content rater role.

• Home: This button takes you to the landing page for your role. For many roles, this is the Home page described in About the Home Page.

• Item: This menu displays links for performing item-related tasks, such as creating, viewing, and editing items. For information, refer to Managing Items and Stimuli.

• Stimulus: This menu displays links for performing stimulus-related tasks, such as creating, viewing, and editing stimuli. For information, refer to Managing Items and Stimuli.

• Review: This menu displays links that enable you to search for and review existing items and stimuli. For information, refer to Reviewing Items and Stimuli.

• Assessment: This menu displays links for performing assessment-related tasks, such as managing publications. For information, refer to Managing Assessment Tools.

• Content Rater: This menu displays links that enable you to rate item content. For information, refer to Rating Item Content.

• Form & Test Engineering: This menu displays links to content form workspaces and the test assembly tool. For information, refer to Form and Test Engineering.

• Report: This menu displays links for generating reports. For information on the types of reports you can generate, refer to Generating ITS Reports and Performing Other Actions.

• Master Admin: This menu contains a link to the Manage Content Standards Repository with ITS page where you can manage content standard publications, as described in Managing Content Standard Publications.

• Animation: This menu contains links that enable you to manage animation requests created by item and stimulus writers in ITS, as described in Managing Animation Requests.

• Quick Search: This text box at the upper-right corner enables you to search for a specific item, stimulus, form, or test existing in ITS, as explained in Searching with the Quick Search Tool.

• Help: This button opens this guide.

• Manage Account: This dropdown list allows you to change your user role and the item bank you are logged in to. For information, refer to Changing User Roles and Changing Item Banks .

• Logout: This button logs you out of ITS. For information, refer to Logging out of ITS.