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Creating and Editing Custom Quizzes
This page contains instructions for creating and editing Custom Quizzes.
Creating Custom Quizzes
Creating a Custom Quiz requires completing the form shown in Fig 1. Additional help information is available on the form by clicking the question marks (?) next to the form elements.
Notice
The Custom Quiz Creation form will be disabled for Subscribers and Organization Members unless they are added to another Subscriber's or Organization Member's Custom Quiz Friends List. Consequently, these users will not be able to create Shared Custom Quizzes. Users can find Custom Quiz friends in The ECG Quiz Find Custom Quiz Friends forum topic.
The Required Elements
The following form elements are required for all Custom Quizzes.
- Description
- The textual description of the Custom Quiz.
- Grading Skill Level
- The Skill Level at which the Custom Quiz will be graded.
- Start Date
- The date that users can start taking an Active Custom Quiz.
- ECGs
- The list of ECGs that are contained in the Custom Quiz. See the Selecting ECGs section below.
- Diagnosis Categories
- The list of Diagnosis Categories to use to grade Custom Quiz submissions. At least one category must be selected.
The button will be enabled when these 5 form elements are entered.
The Optional Elements
The following form elements are optional.
- Active
- Switch to activate the Custom Quiz. Only active Custom Quizzes are available for users to take.
- Stop Date
- The date when an active Custom Quiz expires and can no longer be taken. An empty Stop Date means the Custom Quiz never expires.
- Presentation Method
- The order in which ECGs are presented to the user in the Custom Quiz.
- Random: The selected ECGs are presented in random order.
- Ordered: The selected ECGs are presented in the order listed in the ECG selection table.
- Time Limit
- The number of minutes allocated for users to take the Custom Quiz. A value of zero (0) means unlimited time.
- Audience
- Typically preset, depending upon user privileges and the type of Custom Quiz being created.
- Shared: Create a Shared Custom Quiz.
- Organization: Create an Organization Custom Quiz. This option is only visible to Organization Administrators.
- Shared to Users
- Only visible when Shared Custom Quizzes are being created. This is the list of users who have been invited to take the Custom Quiz. Note that if a Shared To user has started or completed the Custom Quiz, they cannot be removed from this list. The maximum number of people a Custom Quiz can be shared with is 20.
- You can share Custom Quizzes with other Subscribers and Organization Members who have added you to their Custom Quiz Friends List.
Selecting ECGs
You have access to all ECGs in The ECG Quiz database for your Custom Quizzes, even if you have not analyzed them before. In the ECG Selection list, the “Diagnoses” column will display the actual diagnoses for ECGs you have recently analyzed. “Recently analyzed ECGs” refers to the ECGs currently listed in your ECG results. Diagnoses from ECGs analyzed in your Archived Datasets will not appear. For ECGs you have not analyzed, the “Diagnoses” column will show: “You have not analyzed this ECG in your current data set. Diagnoses are not available.”
You have two methods for selecting the ECGs to include in your Shared Custom Quiz:
- Manual Selection
- You select individual ECGs by clicking on the checkboxes in the left-hand column of the table.
- Random Selection
- You randomly select ECGs by specifying certain criteria.
You can begin the ECG selection process by randomly selecting ECGs using the Random Selection method and then tailor the selected ECGs by manually clicking the boxes in the left-hand column of the table to add or remove ECGs from the selected list.
To randomly select ECGs, you must first specify the Number of ECGs that will be in the Custom Quiz. The other controls in this section become active after you enter the Number of ECGs you want to select randomly. The maximum number of ECGs that can be randomly selected is 25. However, there is no limit to the number of ECGs you can include in a Custom Quiz.
Using the Random Selection process, you can also use one or more of the following options to specify the identified ECGs further. These fields are enabled after the “Number of ECGs” value is entered.
- ECG Type
- 1 Lead Telemetry, 3 Lead Telemetry, and 12 Lead Diagnostic.
- ECG Data Type
- images and binary.
- ECG Duration
- 6, 10, 30, and 60 seconds. Note: All 12 Lead Diagnostic ECGs are 10 seconds in duration.
- Difficulty
- Simple, Moderate, and Difficult.
- Diagnosis
- A specific diagnosis that must be in an ECG's must or should diagnosis list to be included in the Random Selection list. Because the Diagnoses column will not contain the true diagnoses for ECGs you have not analyzed, the Diagnosis selection criteria will only identify those you previously analyzed.
To randomly select ECGs for your Custom Quiz, set your search criteria and click the button. The ECG selection list will then refresh, preselecting the specified number of ECGs that match your criteria. Selected ECGs are highlighted in gray, with the checkbox in the left-hand column checked, indicating their inclusion in your Custom Quiz. Each time you click the button, a new set of randomly selected ECGs that fit your criteria will appear in the list.
To deselect a chosen ECG or select an unselected one, click the checkbox in the left-hand column of the table. To remove all selected ECGs and reset the fields in the Random ECG Selection form, click the button.
When you’re ready to finalize your Custom Quiz with the selected ECGs, click the button to generate it. To reset all entries and clear the selected ECGs, click the button.
Notice
To create an Organization Custom Quiz, Organization Administrators must use the button located on the Manage Organization Custom Quizzes page.
Important
Users that are not Organization Administrators will receive an error message if they try to access the Manage Organization Custom Quizzes from the above link.
Editing Custom Quizzes
Certain items cannot be modified after a Custom Quiz is created. Before saving the Custom Quiz for the first time, a pop-up dialog will appear to remind you that these items will be locked and cannot be changed once saved.
- The ECGs that comprise the Custom Quiz
- The Skill Level that will be used to grade the Custom Quiz
- The Audience for the Custom Quiz
- The Diagnosis Categories to use to grade Custom Quiz submissions
Changing ECG Order
When the ECG display (Figure 2) is shown for an Ordered Custom Quiz, you can customize the sequence in which ECGs are presented to users when they take the Custom Quiz. When editing the Custom Quiz, the order appears in a table format (Figure 2). The first column, labeled “Seq.,” is designated for rearranging ECGs. To change the order, simply click and drag a cell in the “Seq.” column for the ECG you would like to move. When in the “Seq.” column, the cursor will change to 
. While holding down the left mouse button, drag the row to its new position, and the table will automatically update to reflect the new sequence. Note that you must first create the Ordered Custom Quiz and then edit it to change the presentation order.
