What are the IRAT Optional Settings?

This article will explain the features found during your IRAT activity setup in the optional settings

This Guide is for:

Super Admin
Teacher Admin (Full-Access)
Teacher (Owner Full-Access)

The IRAT Optional settings can be found in the Step 4 of your IRAT or IRAT & TRAT activity setup. To get to this stage of the setup, start by creating an activity on your course dashboard or click continue setup.

Students can change their answers

This option is enabled by default. This option when toggled to “YES” allows students to go back to previous questions and change their answers before submitting.

Students must answer questions in sequence

This option when toggled to “YES” requires students to move from one question to the next in progression without skipping questions. Additionally, instructors have the option to allow students to revisit previously answered questions if they choose to enable this feature.

Randomise Choices

This option shuffles the answer choices displayed on each student's dashboard as they navigate through the questions. To prevent any potential confusion for students, it is advisable to hide the answer keys when this option is enabled.

Enable Immediate Feedback

This option when toggled to “YES” will give students instant feedback as to whether or not their answers are right or wrong. This feature emulates the practice done in TRATs where students can have multiple attempts until they get the correct answer.

Important: Enabling this option will disable the “Confidence-Based Testing” feature, and students will automatically be allowed to change their answers before final submission.

Show hints and explanations for questions that have them

If there are hints and explanations included in the questions, there are options to

Show after activity has ended - Display for students when reviewing the activity and their answer.
Show immediate feedback during tests - Display for students when activity is on-going

Enable Confidence-Based Testing

This option when toggled to “YES” allows students to distribute points across the various answer options. When this option is turned off, learners only have to click one answer option and save their answers.

Important Note: Enabling this option disables the “Enable Immediate Feedback” option.

Read more about Confidence-Based Testing.

Students must answer using Safe Exam Browser

InteDashboard does not include a built-in browser blocking feature., however some institutions have the option to utilize Safe Exam Browser alongside InteDashboard. This needs to be setup on the instructor and student devices with configurations from your iT team.

Allow students to download and/or print PDF documents

This option allows instructors to control whether students can download or print any PDF documents that are included as attachments.

Allow students to download and/or print images from questions

This option allows instructors to control whether students can download and/or print images that are included in the questions.