Building Test Booklets for Paper Administration

If you plan to administer a test to students on paper, you can generate a test booklet with paper-friendly versions of the test items. When building a test booklet, you can customize its cover page, test instructions, resources, and end test page. You can also choose whether to create a student edition or a teacher edition, which includes the scoring information.

• You should not include any items with audio or video elements in a test that will be administered on paper.
• Some items may not be compatible with the paper format, so you should always preview the test booklet in Authoring's Test Booklet Generator before you administer it.
• Some item libraries may prohibit printing. You cannot generate a booklet for a test if it includes items from such libraries.
• You may not be able to generate booklets for tests with a large number of items (the exact number of items at which issues can arise depends on the items’ content).
• If you set the test language to Spanish, the paper booklet will also use the Spanish version of its content for both teacher and student editions. If you wish to create both English and Spanish versions of a test booklet, you can create a copy of the test and set the copy to a different language, as long as all its items are available in both Spanish and English.

You can build test booklets from the test builder or from the Tests tab.

1.To build a test booklet for paper administration, open the Tests tab and select Build Booklet from the dotted menu to the left of a test (you may need to apply filters first).

2.The Test Booklet Generator window appears, displaying the Select Sections panel. You can use this panel to add and customize the following sections in the test booklet:

• Cover Page: To include a cover page with the test, select the Cover Page checkbox. You can click Edit to customize the content of the cover page.
• Test Directions: To include a page of instructions that appears before the first test item, select the Test Directions checkbox. You can click Edit to customize the content of the directions.
• Test Resources: To include a periodic table printout with the booklet, select the Periodic Table checkbox. To include sheets of blank scratch paper, select the Scratch Paper checkbox and choose how many pages to include in the Quantity field. To include sheets of graph paper, select the Graph Paper checkbox and choose how many pages to include in the Quantity field.
• End Test Page: To include a page of instructions after the last test item, select the End Test Page checkbox. You can click Edit to customize the content of this page.

3.After customizing the test booklet sections, click Next. The Select Editions panel appears.

4.Select the checkbox for each edition of the test booklet you wish to generate:

• Student Edition: The student edition displays the test items without any scoring guidelines.
• Teacher Edition: The teacher edition displays the test items with their scoring guidelines.

5.To preview the content of the test booklet, click Preview beside the appropriate edition type in the Selections panel on the right. You should always preview a booklet before generating it to ensure it does not include any items with multimedia or items from a shared library that do not have paper-friendly formatting.

• To view one page at a time, select Single in the top right corner. To view two pages side-by-side, select Double.
• You can click the paragraph icons in the left margin to insert page breaks in the booklet. For example, if an item’s response options split across two pages, you can click the paragraph icon that appears before the prompt to set the item content to appear together on a new page.
  • To remove a page break, click the paragraph icon a second time.

6.To generate test booklets for the selected editions, click Generate. A PDF file for each selected edition type will be added to the Secure File Center once the task finishes processing.

7.To access the test booklet file from the Secure File Center, click Secure File Center in the Authoring banner. The Secure File Center window appears.

8.Click the name of the test booklet file to download it to your computer.

• Files are automatically removed from the Secure File Center after 30 days.
• If you want to remove a file from the Recent tab without deleting it, you can click in the Actions column for that file to archive it. You can access archived files from the Archived tab on the left side of the Secure File Center.
• To delete a file from the Secure File Center, click in the Actions column for that file.