• It is possible to create a series of multiple-choice or true-false questions as a questionnaire to be added at any location in the text to be read. Adding a questionnaire is a two-step process. First, you must create a question bank. Second, these questions (or part of these questions) must be linked to a segment of the text, which is often the last segment of the text. Though questions can be created either at step 1 or step 2 of text generation, they can only be attached to the text at step 2. 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). However, each question in the Question Bank can be used only once within the same Zigzag project.
  
  

  Create a Question Bank
  

• Open the File > Open Zigzag Project… menu in the Zigzag Generator application.
  
  
• A window called Open Project will appear. Select the project Go play somewhere else 6a and click OK.
  
  
  
  
• Select the Tools > Question Bank menu (or click on the button on the toolbar). A window called Question Bank will open. Click on the Add tab in the top left-hand corner of the Question Bank window, which will make the first No Title item appear.
  
  
• In the Title field, replace No Title by Mrs. Brown-text.
  
  
• As concerns the Type of question, click on True or False. Two new buttons, which correspond to the options True and False, will be displayed. Accept the default value posted (i.e. True).
  
  
• In the Question field, replace <Write question here> by Mrs. Brown didn't want us to play ball behind her house. Here is what you should obtain:
  
  
  
  
• Click on the Add tab once more. This command saves the first question written with the title Mrs. Brown-text and brings up a new item to be filled in.
  
  
• Replace No title by Adults-text.
  
  
• In the Question field, replace <Write question here> by Who said : «Go play somewhere else!»?
  
  
• As concerns the Type of question, click on the Multiple Choice button.
  
  
• Four additional fields will be displayed. Write the following:
  
  • Field 1: Mr. Brown
  • Field 2: Mrs. Lemelin
  • Field 3: Mr. Meyer
  • Field 4: Mrs. Meyer
    
    
• Check the button corresponding to field 3 (i.e. the correct answer). Here is the result:
  
  
  
  
• Click Close in the Question Bank window.
  
  
• Select the File > Save Zigzag Project menu and then the File > Close Zigzag Project menu.
  
  
• Please note that it is possible to modify or delete pre-existing questions as long as they have not already been used in a questionnaire (see Modify or delete a question).
  
  
  
  
  Attach questions to text in questionnaire format
  
  
• Select the File > Open Zigzag Project menu. A window called Open Project will appear. Select the project Go play somewhere else 6b and click OK. This project contains a bank of twelve already formulated questions.
  
  
• In vertical view, select the last segment of the text (the segment will change to be blue in color); cf. Note 1.
  
  
  
  
  
• Next, use one of the following three options:
  
  
  • Select the menu Events > Questionnaire.
  
  
  • Using the mouse's contextual menu (right click), select the item Questionnaire.
    
    
    
    
  • Click on the button on the toolbar (be careful not to confuse it with the button referring to the Question Bank).
    
    
• A window called Assign Questions to a Questionnaire will appear. On the left-hand side, the window displays the questions already created.
  
  
  
  
• Select the question Mr. Meyer-image and click on the right-pointing arrow (or double-click on the item itself). The question will be transferred to the right-hand side column called Questionnaire Assigned to Segment.
  
  
• Proceed in the same manner for the following questions:
  • Mr. Meyer-text (true or false)
  • Adults - text (multiple choice)
  • Us-image (multiple choice)
  • Us-text (multiple choice)
  • Us-text2 (multiple choice).

  
  

• On the right-hand side of the window, the upward and downward pointing arrows allow you to rearrange the order of presentation of the questions. To use this function, select the question of your choice and click as often as required on one of the two arrows.

• Click Close. You have just created a questionnaire with six questions, which is attached to the last segment of the text.

• To preview how the questionnaire will look in Zigzag Test, use the Integrated Test module of the Zigzag Generator (the Tools > Integrated Test menu or the button on the toolbar). Answer No to the question asked in the Random Distribution of Targets window. To exit the simulation mode of the test, reselect the Tools > Integrated Test menu or the button on the toolbar.
  
  

• Proceed as described above to add three more questionnaires to the text:

  • Add a two-question questionnaire (i.e. Mrs. Brown-image, Mrs. Brown-text) to the fifth segment of the text (i.e. were playing ball behind her house.); cf. Note 2.
    
    
  • Add a two question questionnaire (i.e. The older kids-image, The older kids-text) to the eleventh segment (i.e. us to go play somewhere else.).
    
    
  • Add a two-question questionnaire (i.e. Mr. Lemelin-image, Mr. Lemelin-text) to the twenty-first segment (i.e. tell us: «Go play somewhere else!»).
    
    
• Once all the questions have been assigned to a questionnaire, the Question Bank field should be empty. Click Close.
  
  
• Save the changes (File > Save Zigzag Project) before using the Integrated Test module. Then, close the project (File > Close Zigzag Project).
  
  
  
  
  Modify or delete a question
  
  
• In the Go play somewhere else 6c project, the questions have been added to the questionnaire following the instructions in the previous section. Use this project to learn how to modify or delete questions or questionnaires. Modifying or deleting pre-existing questions is done in the Question Bank window. This window is accessible via the Tools > Question Bank menu (or the button on the toolbar):
  
  
  • To modify the title of a question, the question itself, or any element referring to the answer to the question, make the changes to the appropriate field and confirm your choice by clicking Close.
    
    
  • To delete a question, select its title on the left-hand side of the Question Bank window and click Delete.
    
    
  • It is not possible to modify or delete a question that has already been assigned to a questionnaire. A message that you must obey will appear in the Correction field of the Question Bank before you are able to make the desired changes.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  Modify or delete a questionnaire
  
  
• Modifying or deleting a questionnaire is done through the Assign Questions to a Questionnaire window. To access this window, in the vertical view, select the textual segment to which the questionnaire is attached. The selected segment will change to be blue in color.
  
  
  
  
• Next, proceed in one of the following three ways:
  
  
  • Select the Events > Questionnaire menu.
    
    
  • Using the mouse's contextual menu (right click), select the option Modify / Delete Questionnaire.
    
    
    
  • Click the button on the toolbar.
    
    
• A window Assign Questions to Questionnaire will appear. Select the question to be deleted from the right-hand field called Questionnaire assigned to a segment and click on the arrow pointing to the left field (or double-click on the question).
  
  
  
  
• The selected question will then appear in the Question Bank field. The question can now be associated to another questionnaire, if so desired.
  
  
• To completely delete a questionnaire, transfer all the questions to the left-hand field. When you remove the last question, you will be asked the following question:
  
  
  
  
• Answer Yes if the paragraph was only conceived in order to present the questionnaire. The corresponding symbols will disappear:
  
  
  
• Click Close.
  
  
• Select File > Save Zigzag Project and File > Close Zigzag Project.
  
  

Note 1. The questionnaire is not accessible in the multi-selection mode, that is to say, when many textual segments have been selected using the mouse and Ctrl key simultaneously. In multi-selection mode, textual segments will be displayed in red.

Note 2. A questionnaire is always attached to the last segment of a paragraph, or more specifically, the whole text. When a questionnaire is added to a textual segment, the paragraph symbol is automatically added beside the symbol for the questionnaire:

• Tutorials - Overview
• Tutorial 1 - Zigzag Test: Take a test
• Tutorial 2 - Zigzag Calculator: Interpret and compare test results
• Tutorial 3 - Zigzag Generator: Generate a test (step 1)
• Tutorial 4 - Zigzag Generator: Generate distractors and assign codes (step 2)
• Tutorial 5 - Zigzag Generator: Add images to test (step 2)