Adding Associations

Using the Associations lane, you can associate an item with an existing stimulus or Student Help item (depending on the item type), or you can associate a stimulus with an existing item.

Adding Item-Stimulus Associations

From the Associations lane, select $View\Edit Item-Stimulus Associations button$ . The View\Edit Item-Stimulus Associations window appears.

Click Edit. The available items or stimuli are listed.

Select the required item or stimulus and click Save. A confirmation message appears, indicating whether they have been associated successfully.
Click OK. The selected stimulus displays in the View\Edit Item-Stimulus Associations window.
Click Close to return to the View\Edit Item or View\Edit Stimulus page.

If there is any conflict in web-previewing a stimulus due to the item’s layout, an alert displays in the View\Edit Item-Stimulus Associations window. Close this window and fix the item layout if necessary.

Adding Item-Item Associations

Items can be associated with other items to assist students in understanding the item. The student aid item types may vary from one item bank to another.

Some student aids are associated with items through IAT. For detailed instructions on how to create or associate student aids in IAT, refer to the IAT Guide.

Table 3 discusses the student aids that are created as items in the Student Help subject. If the subject Student Help is not configured for an item bank, these student aids cannot be created in that bank.

Table 3: Student Aids
Name	Description	Procedure
Tutorial	Either a text or an audio or video clip that provides practical information about a specific subject.	You can associate a tutorial with items for other subjects through IAT.
Checklist	A list of tasks the student can perform and check off before starting a test.	You can associate a checklist with items for other subjects through ITS using the Associations lane.
Cover Page	A cover page contains information necessary to the understanding of an item, but is not part of the item.	You can associate a cover page with a publication, not with an item, in ITS. Refer to Managing Cover Pages for instructions.

To associate an item with a tutorial or checklist:

Determine whether the student aid items with which you want to associate the item have been created.
If student aids have not been created, then from the Add task group of the Item menu, select Student Help. Create the item and its content following the procedure described in Creating an Item or Stimulus.
- To create a tutorial to be associated at the interaction level within an item, from the Used For item attribute field, select the interaction types for which the tutorial is applicable. The tutorial can only be associated with interactions of the specified types.
- To create a tutorial to be associated at the item level, do not select a value for the Used For item attribute field. The tutorial can be associated with an item containing any interaction types.
Submit the student aid item for review. Once the student aid item has been reviewed and approved, continue to step 3 to associate the student aid with the item for which it was created.

Depending on the type of student aid you wish to associate with the item, do one of the following:
- To associate a checklist with an item:
  1. From the Associations review lane, select $View\edit item-item associations button$ . The View\Edit Item-Item Associations window appears.
  2. Click Edit. The available items are listed.
  3. Select items from the available categories and click Save. A confirmation message appears, notifying you that the association has been saved.
  4. Click OK. The associated items are listed in the View\Edit Item-Item Associations window.
- To associate a tutorial with an item, select from the Association review lane. A new browser tab or window opens, displaying the item content in IAT. Follow the instructions in the IAT Guide, which are different for tutorials that are specific to an interaction and tutorials that are not. After you’ve made the association and saved, the selected tutorial is listed in the View\Edit Item-Item Associations window.