After you edit or create in item within an assessment in Mastery Connect, you can use the Item Editor to add item-level tools to an item. You can add a calculator, a ruler, or a protractor.
Notes:
- To add a tool to an item in an assessment, both the item and the assessment must be in draft state.
- You an also add a calculator, ruler, or protractor to an item in an item bank.
- You can also enable tools at the assessment or tracker level. You can enable tools for an individual formative assessment, a benchmark assessment, or for all the assessments in a tracker.
- When the Include question level tools option is enabled for a tracker or assessment, item-level tools are available in addition to the tracker-level and assessment-level tools.
- Item-level tools display in the main body of an item.
- The Desmos calculators are only available in districts that have paid Desmos subscriptions.
- If the steps in this lesson do not match what is displayed in your account, you may be using the Legacy View. For Legacy View steps, refer to How do I add a calculator, ruler, or protractor to an item within a Mastery Connect assessment in Legacy view?.
Open Assessments
In the Global Navigation menu, click the Assessments link.
Open Assessment Editor
To open the Assessment Editor, click an assessment's More Options icon [1], and click the Edit link [2].
Note: To add a calculator, ruler, or protractor to items contained within an assessment, the assessment must be in draft state.
Open Item Editor
In the Assessment Editor, edit an existing item or author a new one.
To edit an existing item, click its More Options icon [1]. Then, click the Edit link [2].
Alternatively, to create a new item, click the Add Item drop-down menu [3], and click the Author New Item link [4].
In the Item Editor, you can select a tool group, and then select a specific tool. You can add any of the following tools:
- Basic, extended, or scientific Mastery Connect calculator [1]
- Desmos scientific, four function, graphing, or matrix calculator [2]
- 6 inch, 12 inch, 15 cm, or 30 cm ruler [3]
- Protractor [4]
Add Tool
To add a tool to the item, click a tool group button [1]. Then, in the tool menu, click a tool toggle button on [2].
To view a tool, click the View preview icon [3]. A preview displays [4].
To disable a tool, click the tool toggle button off [5].
Save Item
Selected tools become shaded [1].
To save the item with the added tool, click the Save Draft button [2].
