Cloning an Item or Stimulus Within an Item Bank

You can clone items or stimuli within an item bank in ITS, then modify their attributes or content. This is an efficient way of creating items or stimuli that are similar in nature, especially items that have multiple parts, so you don’t have to create them all over again.

You can also share/clone to a different item bank, as described separately in Share/Clone to Other Bank.

To clone an item or stimulus:

1. Retrieve the item or stimulus you want to clone by following the procedure in the section Viewing and Editing an Item or Stimulus.

2. On the View\Edit Item page or View\Edit Stimulus page, click on the left to expand the floating Actions panel, then click Clone. The Clone Review Dialog window appears.

3. From the Clone Review Dialog window, select the review level for the cloned item or stimulus and then click Submit.

4. A confirmation pop-up appears. Click OK to clone the item or Cancel to cancel the cloning process.

5. If you clicked OK to proceed with cloning, another message appears, notifying you that the item has been successfully cloned and providing the item ID/key for the cloned item. Click OK to close the message.

6. Retrieve the cloned item by item ID using the search field at the upper-right corner (refer to Searching with the Quick Search Tool) or by following the procedure in the section Searching for an Item or Stimulus. Then edit the item or stimulus as needed.