1. Go to Assessments > Find > Items to search banks selected on the Item Banks page, or go to Assessments > Item Banks to search a specific bank. You can also edit directly on a test without affecting the item in the bank.
2. Search for the item you want, and then click Edit in the actions menu for the item. This action is available only if you have edit rights to the bank.
3. Edit the item as needed. See the Related Topics link below for links to specific item types.
4. Click Preview as Student with or without Text to Speech to interact with the item as a student will on a test.
5. Click Save Changes.

To view or edit the following fields, click Additional Properties. For items that have been purchased from external vendors, these fields are imported. Your system may have up to three additional custom properties for items.

Field	Description
Name	Searchable names used to locate the item in item banks. This field is not optional for task item types.
Author	The person who created the item.
Publisher	Vendor that wrote the item or passageA reading passage that can be included with a test item. Passages can be created independently or while creating a test item., such as Equella, Kaplan, or ETS.
Keywords	Searchable keywords used to locate the item in item banks.
Anchor ItemAny item that has been flagged by a teacher or administrator for identification as an anchor item. This flag is user-defined, visible to only its creator, and may be used for a variety of purposes.	Any item that has been flagged by a teacher or administrator for identification as an anchor item. This flag is user-defined, visible to only its creator, and may be used for a variety of purposes.
Question Language	The language used to author the content. The item can be used to administer assessments to students in a language other than English. This option is available for school districts with system configurations that support multiple languages. For the Text to Speech accommodation, English or Spanish pronunciation will be used based on this setting. Note that the test-level Text to Speech language setting will override the item-level Question Language setting.
Response Language	The language used by students to respond to the question in a language other than English. This option is available for school districts with system configurations that support multiple languages. The Response Language will default to the option selected for the Question Language, with the exception being Chinese. If Chinese is selected as the Question Language, the Response Language field will default to English, as Chinese text cannot be entered for student answers.
Authored Difficulty	Difficulty determined for this item after it has been field tested.
Batch	The batch number. This field is used by Florida only.
Bloom's TaxonomyA multi-tiered scale for learning objectives used to define how well a skill or compentency is learned or mastered.	Represents levels of learning: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating.
Course ID	The course ID the item is associated with.
Cognitive Demand Level	Low, Moderate, or High.
Item Category	An attribute of open response item types.
Reading Level	Select the reading level range for this item.
Additional Item Identifier	A unique item number that may be provided when importing items from a publisher, such as Equella.
Webb	Norman Webb's Depth of Knowledge Levels: Level 1: Recall or recognition of a fact, information, concept or procedure Level 2: Basic Application of Skill/Concept - use of information, conceptual knowledge, follow and select appropriate procedures, two or more steps with decision points along the way, routine problems, organize/display data Level 3: Strategic Thinking - require reasoning, developing a plan or sequence of steps to approach problem; require some decision making and justification; abstract and complex; often more than one possible answer Level 4: Extending Thinking - an investigation or application to real world; requires time to research, think, and process multiple conditions of the problem or task; non-routine manipulations, across disciplines/content areas/multiple sources
Year	The year the test item was imported or created.
Hard to Measure Content Area	Indicates whether the test itemA test question, such as True/False, Matching, Open Response, and so on. Test items can be created in Assessment Admin or imported through the QTI import process. is in a hard-to-measure content area, such as World Languages. Items that are imported through QTIThe IMS Question & Test Interoperability (QTI) specification enables the exchange of item, test, and results data between authoring tools, item banks, test constructional tools, learning systems, and assessment delivery systems. Test items that meet the QTI 2.1 specification can be imported into Schoolnet. Import that are flagged as hard-to-measure will maintain the flag when they are imported.

Messages will appear when creating or editing an item to notify you of any alerts or warnings for the test item you are working on. While a test is in a draft state, you can work on new items before finalizing previous items. However, draft tests can be moved to the Ready to Schedule state only when all required alerts are resolved. Tests can be scheduled with unresolved warnings, but not with unresolved alerts.

The following table lists some common alerts and warnings. It is not a comprehensive list of all warnings and alerts.

If a required alert appears, you must resolve it before scheduling the test.

Message	Required	Troubleshooting
Required	Yes	Appears in red text below required fields. Select or enter all required content.
At least one answer must be selected as correct	Yes	Select a correct answer using the checkboxes.
Standard alignment is required	Yes	Select a standard using the standard picker (click Select Standards).
Incomplete	Yes	The item is missing a required field. This alert appears when hovering over the alert icon for an item when editing a test.
Not worth any points	No	Assign at least one point to an answer choice.
Primary alignment is not from preferred standards document	No	Appears when the standard you select using the standard picker is from a different standard set than the preferred standards used in test creation.
Fix the errors in the highlighted tabs	Yes	For item types with gaps or containers, fix any errors that appear in the answer choice tabs.
Multiple correct answers (multiple choice)	No	Make sure only one answer is selected as correct.
The question must contain at least one gap (gap match and graphic gap match)	Yes	Click Insert New Gap in the question content area to add gaps.
At least one correct answer choice per gap is required (gap match and graphic gap match)	Yes	Make sure each gap has at least one correct answer.
Other alerts		This table is not comprehensive. You may see other alerts for specific item types that need to be resolved.