Editor Documentation

You need editor access to create a question in Quest. If you do not see the link to the editor in the top right corner of the main course page, or under shortcuts, simply send us an email to request authorization.

If you already have been granted editor access and still don't see this icon in your upper right hand view, please clear your internet browser's cache, fully close out of all browsers, and try again.

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If at any point you need assistance with using the editor. Please reach out to questhelp@austin.utexas.edu

Creating a New Question (Types & Getting Started)

Adding Questions to the Public Banks

History of Question use

Searching for a question in Editor

The Editor page can be navigated to by clicking on Shortcuts and then the Editor link, as shown below. Alternatively, click here

Within the editor, the left side bar (expanded by clicking the three horizontal lines to the left of the home icon) has a useful links section on the left hand side.

Link Title	Description
Jump to Id	Type the ID of a question then hit "enter" on the keyboard. This will take you to the editor page for the ID
Find Question
Function Library	The function library contains the list of functions available to be used for creating questions. Only used for questions that use C or JavaScript
List Parsing	This is a useful page to compare different comma separated lists of numbers. For questions that have lists as answers
Interval Parsing	Similar to list parsing this is for testing equality between comma separated lists of intervals or ordered pairs
New Question	How you create a new question

In the center of the page you'll find the search functionality. There are lots of ways to find what you're looking for; ID # and title are the most common.

Link Title	Description
Section	This lets you sort the questions by bank->chapter->section
Title	Search for words in a title of the question
Body	Searches the text of the question
Date	If you have a rough estimate of when the question was written you can search with that method
Editor	Filters questions by the UT EID of who created the question
My Questions	Shows all the questions written by you
Flagged	Questions that have been flagged wrong, filtered by question bank
Recent	Recently edited questions, filtered by question bank