Events > Questionnaire

• It is possible to add a questionnaire at any location in the text to be read. The questionnaire can be composed of multiple choice questions, true or false questions, or a combination of both. Adding a questionnaire is a two-step process. First, you must create a question bank. This is done in a window called Question Bank. It can be accessed with the command Tools > Question Bank. Second, these questions (or some of these questions) must be linked to the last segment of a paragraph, which is often the last paragraph of the text. It is also possible to create two or more questionnaires and link them to different locations in the text (for example, at the end of a thematic unit of the text); if the segment selected is not the last of the paragraph, it will automatically become so by adding the questionnaire. Each question in the Question Bank can be used only once in the same text. It is best to use the commands dealing with the questionnaire in vertical view, since the linking point of a questionnaire to a textual segment is only visible in the vertical view of the integrated editor of the Zigzag Generator.
  
  
  
  Create a questionnaire
  
  
• In the integrated editor of the Zigzag Generator, vertical view, select the text segment to which the questionnaire should be linked (the segment will change color):
  
  
  
  
• Next, choose one of these three options:
  
  
  • Use the menu Events > Questionnaire.

    

  • Using the contextual menu on the mouse (right click), with the pointer over the last segment of the text, select Questionnaire.
    
  • Click on the button on the toolbar.
    
    
    
• A window called Assign Questions to a Questionnaire will open. The list of questions in the Question Bank to be used in the questionnaire will appear on the left-hand side.
  

  

• To select a question, select it in the left field (the right-pointing arrow will then become available) and transfer it over by clicking on the arrow. Repeat this action as many times as is necessary.
  
  
  
  
• On the right-hand side, the upward and downward pointing arrows allow you to rearrange the presentation order of the questions. If you wish for the presentation of the questionnaire during the test to have Question 2 before Question 1, select the item Question 2 and click on the upward-pointing arrow (or select item Question 1 and click on the downward-pointing arrow):
  
  

  
  

• To remove an assigned question from the questionnaire, (question 3, for example), select it in the right field and click on the left-pointing arrow:
  
  

• Click on the Close button. The questionnaire with questions 1-2 is now linked to the last segement of the text, as indicated by the boxed question mark in the integrated editor of Zigzag Generator.
  
  
  
  
  

Modify / Delete a questionnaire

• In the vertical view, use the mouse to select the textual segment to which a questionnaire is already attached (the selected segment will change color).
  
  
• Using the contextual menu of the mouse (right click), select Modify / Delete Questionnaire.
  
  
  

• A window called Questionnaire will appear. To add or remove questions from the questionnaire, proceed as described above.
  
  
• To completely delete a questionnaire, transfer all the items in the right field back to the left field and click on Close. A window will appear asking you if you also wish to delete the associated paragraph. Answer Yes if the paragraph was only created with the intention of presenting the questionnaire. Answer No if the paragraph was not only there to be used with the questionnaire. In the integrated editor of Zigzag Generator, the icon indicating the presence of a questionnaire will disappear.
  
  

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