💡 After your tasks and domains are set, click the "2 — Blueprint Preview" tab. This is where you see your JTA translated into an estimated exam structure before committing to anything.
❓ What am I actually looking at here?
The Estimated Blueprint is a projection. The platform takes your domains and shows how they'd translate into exam topics with proportional weights. Each domain becomes a slice, and the percentage reflects how much of the exam that content area would represent. It's a preview of the exam's shape, generated from your task structure, before the blueprint formally exists.
Reviewing the Estimated Blueprint
5.1 Review the Estimated Blueprint chart. Each domain from your Tasks & Domains work appears as a weighted slice (e.g., Role Boundaries and Escalation — 17%, Confidentiality and Student Privacy — 7%).
5.2 Ask the critical question: Do these proportions reflect the real job? If a domain that's central to the role is showing a small percentage, or a minor one is dominating, go back to the "1 — Tasks & Domains" tab and rebalance your tasks before building.
❓ Where do these percentages come from?
The weights are derived from your task distribution across domains — domains with more tasks carry more estimated weight. This is why task quality and organization in the previous step matters: the blueprint's shape is a direct reflection of it. If you ran an SME survey (see the Survey & Analysis pages), validated importance and frequency ratings also inform these proportions.
💡 Chart controls (upper-right of the chart panel): toggle between donut, bar, and alternate chart views; adjust label text size with A+ / A−; and use the download icon to export the chart — useful for sharing the proposed structure with stakeholders before committing.
Building the Blueprint
5.3 When the estimated structure looks right, click the "Build Blueprint" button in the upper-right corner.
❓ Why is this step such a big deal?
Building the blueprint finalizes and locks the job analysis; tasks can no longer be edited, and survey responses can no longer be submitted. It's the sign-off moment that says: "We've validated the job role. Now we can build an exam around it." The blueprint pulls directly from this JTA's data, so everything needs to be complete and correct before those values carry over. Think of it as freezing the foundation before building the house.
⚠️ This locks your JTA. Once built, tasks can't be edited and any open SME surveys close. If your SME survey is still collecting responses (Advanced → Survey), wait for it to finish before building.
5.4 Confirm through the first modal, then you'll be asked: "Write topic descriptions with AI — Would you like to use AI to write your topic descriptions? You can edit them at any time." Choose one:
- Build: Creates the blueprint with your domains as topics, leaving topic descriptions blank for you to write.
- ✨ Build with AI: Creates the blueprint and has AI draft a description for each topic based on your JTA content.
❓ Should I use AI for topic descriptions?
Topic descriptions do real work downstream. They give item writers context on what each topic covers, and they feed AI item generation later. If you choose "Build with AI," the drafts are editable at any time, so there's little risk in starting with them and refining. Choose plain "Build" if your program has established topic language you plan to paste in, or if a psychometrician is writing descriptions to a house standard.
5.5 After choosing, you'll be taken directly into your new Blueprint in the Authoring view, with its data (name, assessment level, job/role info, duration) carried over from the JTA automatically.
Next step → Step 6: Blueprint Topics & Weights
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