Question Module — author manual

This manual is intended for question authors and content managers working on the Isograd platform: producing, calibrating, and publishing questions, subjects, question sets, and test forms.

If you are a client account administrator (managing candidates, sessions, results), refer instead to the Account administrator manual.

Content architecture

The platform organises assessment content into several nested layers:

• Subject families — group subjects under a broad category (Office productivity, Programming, Languages, etc.).
• Subjects — a subject is an assessable content area (Excel 2016, Python, English B2…). It is the reference unit for creating a test.
• Domains — break a subject down into broad skill areas (“Tables and charts”, “Calculation functions”).
• Micro-skills — refine domains into more granular items for pedagogical mapping.
• Question sets — thematic bundles of questions, reusable across multiple subjects.
• Questions — the items themselves, attached to a subject, a domain, and optionally a micro-skill.
• Visual aids — images and diagrams reusable from one question to another.
• Answer scales — rating scales used for scored questions (Likert, frequency, etc.).
• Test forms — assemble questions into final deliverables (assessment, certification, positioning).

💡 Where to start? — If you are new to the tool, begin with the Subjects chapter: it is the gateway to the entire content chain.