User's Guide

5Chapter 1 InterWrite PRS – Lessons
Lessons
The Lessons section is the staging area for your questionnaires. Lessons
are made up of sets of Questions. The Lessons containing the Question
Sets are organized in the Lesson Tree. The Lesson Tree is structured much
like a file directory, making it very easy and intuitive to plan, prepare and
organize large numbers of Lessons in advance.
A Lesson is presented during a Session. At the beginning of each new
Session, the Lesson is associated with a Class. The Questions in the
Lesson, or a selected subset of the Questions, are presented to the Class
during the Session. The electronic Responses of each student in the Class
are recorded and saved in a Session file. The Responses in the Session file
can be graded, Marked, and added to a Gradebook.
A Lesson can be copied, renamed, imported, and exported. A new Session
for a selected Lesson can be started directly from the Lesson section,
eliminating the need to go to the Sessions section to initiate the Session.
In addition, a variety of Reports can be created from PRS Lessons. This
Lesson Reporting function gives an instructor an easy way to access and
list the Questions and Response Choices in a Lesson. The importance of
this feature becomes apparent when a Lesson is presented in a Self Paced
Mode Session or as a homework assignment for RF. The Questions and
Response Choices are not displayed during this type of Session, so the
Report function provides the instructor with a convenient way of making
them available to the students.
Questions
A Lesson’s Questions can be composed in PRS. These Questions are
stored in a native PRS XML format to support industry standards, making
them available for export and import. Question Defaults are set as part of
the Lesson definition. These default settings influence the presentation of
the Questions during a Session.
Many textbook publishers provide electronic Question Sets with their
textbooks. Most use the QTI XML storage format for their Question Sets,
which is supported by PRS, so they can be easily imported directly into a
PRS Lesson. PRS’s powerful Question Editor can then be used to modify
any Question in the imported Question Set, to add additional Questions to
the Question Set, to copy Questions into other Lessons, and to select a
subset of the Questions for presentation during a Session.