Online Authoring User Guide

This online guide provides an overview of the tasks and features available in Authoring. Authoring is a content creation system that educators can use to create items that may be aligned to standards and added to original tests. The tests created in Authoring can be published to the Test Administration Site, where they can be administered to students.

This guide includes the following sections:

• Navigating the Authoring Site: This section explains how to use the quick links on the Authoring Dashboard and the filters on the content tabs to find and create items and tests.
• Creating Items That You Can Add to Tests: This section explains how to create original items by filling out templates in the item builder page. It also explains how to align items to standards.
• Building a Test You Can Administer to Students: This section explains how to create original tests in the test builder page. When creating tests, you can add existing items to the test pages or create new items directly in the test builder.
• Working with the Items and Tests Available to You: This section explains how to edit, copy, label, and archive your original items and tests on the content tabs. This section also provides instructions for authorized users who can create subjects that may be aligned with content in Authoring.
• Sharing Your Items and Tests with Other Educators: This section explains how to share your items, tests, and standards with other educators so that they may co-author the content or use it for themselves. It also explains how authorized users share tests with custom administration dates.
• Submitting an Item to a Shared Items Library: This section explains how to submit items to a shared items library available to all educators in your district. It also explains how authorized users review and approve the submitted items.
• The Appendices provide information about the tables in content tabs, the text editor toolbar in item templates, and details about the username and password you use to log in.

To browse through the topics in this guide, open the navigation pane or use the arrow buttons in the upper-left corner of this window.

A PDF version of this user guide with additional screenshots is available on the CAI Portal at sampleportal.org.