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Test Development

  • Item Authoring
    • Getting started in Item Authoring
      • About the Subjects screen in Item Authoring
      • Creating a subject in Item Authoring
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    • Creating items
      • Creating a Multiple Choice question
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    • About the Mark (Standard) screen
      • Marking a script in the Mark (Standard) screen
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      • Exporting scripts from the Mark (Standard) screen
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      • Marking a script in the Mark (Legacy) screen
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      • Marking a paper test in the Paper Mark screen
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      • Moderating a script in the Moderate (Standard) screen
      • Editing grade boundaries in the Moderate (Standard) screen
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      • Re-assigning user associations in the Moderate (Standard) screen
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      • Moderating a script in the Moderate (Legacy) screen
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      • Generating results reports in the Results screen
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    • About the Re-mark (Standard) screen
      • Re-marking a script in the Re-mark (Standard) screen
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    • About the Audit screen
      • Viewing an audit report in the Audit screen
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      • Scheduling a candidate review session
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System Administration

  • Setup
    • About the Centres screen
      • Creating a centre
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      • Retiring a centre
    • About the Subjects screen
      • Creating a subject in Setup
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      • About IRT tags
      • Setting up a subject group
      • Sharing a subject
      • Setting up Surpass Copilot
      • Deleting a subject
    • About the Users screen
      • Creating a user
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    • About the Candidates screen
      • Creating a candidate
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  • Site Settings
    • About My Profile options
    • About Site Settings options
    • About Branding options
    • About Customise Columns options
    • About Roles
      • About roles and permissions
      • Creating a new role
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    • About Regional Settings options
    • About Assignment Groups options
Breadcrumbs Item Authoring > Setting up items > Setting up enemy items

Setting up enemy items

When creating an item, you can set up enemy relationships with other items. Enemy items can never appear in the same test.

EXAMPLE: You might want to create an enemy relationship between an item that gives away the answer of another item.

You can create enemy relationships on both the test form and section level. Section enemies can be defined in Item Authoring and used as a search parameter in Item Search. However, section enemies act as test form enemies when used in Test Wizard or Test Creation. To enable section enemies, you must enable Item Enemies in Site Settings > Item Authoring.

This article explains how to set up enemy relationships between items and includes information on the difference between principal and acquired enemy relationships.

TIP: You can also create friend relationships between items. For more information, read Creating an item set.
In this article
  • 1. Go to your item’s Edit screen
  • 2. Open the Select Enemy Items dialog
  • 3. Choose your enemy items
  • Inheriting enemy relationships
  • About principal and acquired relationships
  • Further reading

1. Go to your item’s Edit screen

Select an item in your subject to open it and go to the Edit screen.

2. Open the Select Enemy Items dialog

NOTE: You cannot edit an item's enemy relationships if the item is locked for editing by another user.

Select the Enemies panel.

Select either the Test Form Enemies tab or Section Enemies tab as appropriate.

Any enemy relationships already established will be visible in the Test Form Enemies column.

3. Choose your enemy items

Open the Enemy items tab and select Manage Enemy Items.

Select the subject containing the items you want to establish enemy relationships with.

NOTE: The current subject is selected by default.

The chosen subject’s items are listed in the item panel. Use the search field to filter the visible items on the basis of their name or item ID.

Highlight an item to preview of its content.

Select an item’s checkbox to set an enemy relationship. The new enemy item appears under Enemy Items (Principal Relationships).

TIP: Hovering over an enemy item in the Enemy Items (Principal Relationships) section reveals a tooltip that shows you which subject that item is from.

To remove an enemy item, select Delete .

After you have defined your enemy relationships, select Confirm to save your new enemy relationships.

Inheriting enemy relationships

You can add inherited enemies to your item from the Manage Enemy Items screen. This means that when adding an enemy relationship to your item you can also add any enemies of that enemy item.

From the Manage Enemy Items screen select the checkbox next to Enemies of… to automatically add all inherited enemies to your item.

Alternatively, you can manually select specific inherited enemies from the list.

TIP: If an item is locked you can still add inherited enemies manually.

To remove an inherited enemy item, uncheck the checkbox.

NOTE: You can only remove principal relationships from your item.

Select Confirm to save and close.

About principal and acquired relationships

A principal relationship is one that has been created from the current item. An acquired relationship is one that the current item has gained by being made an enemy of another item.

EXAMPLE: If you are editing ‘Item A’ and make ‘Item B’ and ‘Item C’ enemies, ‘Item A’ has principal enemy relationships with ‘Item B’ and ‘Item C’. ‘Item B’ and ‘Item C’ instead have an acquired enemy relationships with ‘Item A’.
NOTE: Creating a principal enemy relationship with an item that already has an acquired enemy relationship with the current item overrides the acquired relationship.

Further reading

Read the following articles for more information on item settings:

  • Setting the item purpose
  • Setting the marking type
  • Uploading a mark scheme to an item
  • Using tags in items
  • Setting item duration
  • Setting item content delays
  • Adding citations to an item

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