To create Palette questions that integrate your customized palette:
Create a question bank that includes the palette definitions in its header and contains at least one question. (This question is simply a place-holder at this point.)
Add a new question by clicking the Add Question.
From the Question Type drop-down list, select Palette-based symbolic editor.
You can add a comment, algorithms, information fields, hints, or a worked solution.
Click Next.
From this main question editor window, you have the following buttons and options:
Enter the text of your question statement in the Question Text field. Question statements can include HTML-formatted elements.
Select the palette style to use for student responses to this question. (Palettes available to you here must already be defined in the question bank header information.)
Enter the correct answer in the Answer field using the palette you selected.
The default behavior for grading palette question student responses is to perform string-matching on the palette-created expression.
Note: Palette questions should only be created using the Question Bank Editor. Palette questions use WebEQ to generate Presentation MathML for the student response and compare it with the Presentation MathML of the answer. However because there are many ways of making Presentation MathML for the same marked-up expression, creating expressions outside WebEQ may generate unpredictable results.
Click Finish to place a copy of your question in the Web site cache and preview your question.
Important: Clicking Finish, does not permanently save a copy of a question to a hard drive. You must save your question bank to your hard drive as a .qu plain-text source file or install the question bank on the class Web site hard drive.