💡 After confirming "Start Item Writing", you land directly in the Item Writing view for your blueprint — no manual navigation needed. A welcome message points you to the Guide button for assistance; the Guide is always available in the header while writing.
❓ Why are items organized by topic?
Each topic in your blueprint carries a weight — a percentage of the exam that content area should represent. Items are written per topic so the platform can track whether you've hit your targets for each area before building a form. Without topic-level organization, there's no way to guarantee the exam reflects the blueprint's structure.
The Item Writing View
Each topic row displays:
- Write: begins writing an item for that topic
- Admin ▾: admin controls for that topic (assign authors, adjust targets)
- The topic name and description (toggle visibility with Show Topics Description)
- Target: items needed for this topic, derived from its blueprint weight
- Target Adjustment: any manual changes made to the original target
- Items Needed: the live shortfall still to be written
The header totals (e.g., Target: 113, Items Needed: 113) show your overall pool progress at a glance.
Toolbar (upper-right): Invite Content Authors (person+ icon), ⚙️ Blueprint Settings, Show Topics Description toggle, Hide Completed toggle (cleans up the view as topics reach their targets), and Item Management (where written items are reviewed, covered in Step 7.3).
Starting an Item
7.0.1 Click "Write" on the topic you'd like to write for.
7.0.2 In the "Select an Item Type" modal, choose your format and click Continue. Formats include Single Correct Response variants (Two through Six options), Multiple Correct Response variants, and more. The list is paginated, so browse if you don't see the format you need.
❓ Which item type should I pick?
Single Correct Response — Four Options is the industry-standard default: familiar to candidates, straightforward to write well, and statistically well-understood. Fewer options (Two or Three) raise the odds of guessing correctly; more options demand more plausible distractors, which are hard to write. Multiple Correct Response formats test more complex judgment but are harder to score and author. Unless your program has a specific reason otherwise, four options is the safe home base — and note that only the item types enabled in Blueprint Settings will appear here.
7.0.3 Next, the AI-Assisted Item Generator modal asks: "Would you like to use AI to help you write your item?" Choose your path:
- ✨ Write an AI-Assisted Item: AI drafts the item from your description. Continue to [Step 7.1: Writing Items with AI].
- Next Time: write the item manually in the editor. Continue to [Step 7.2: Writing Items Manually].
Next step → Step 7.1: Writing Items with AI or Step 7.2: Writing Items Manually
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