{"id":8275,"date":"2025-07-01T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:05:17","slug":"inspera-new-feature-using-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2025\/07\/01\/inspera-new-feature-using-stimulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspera new feature using Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Highlighting text within a Stimulus&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As seen on our dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/content-creation-features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">content creation features website<\/a>, within your Inspera Question Sets using sections, you are able to apply Stimulus to questions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stimulus can be helpful when authoring exam content, as information that is relevant to question(s) within a section can be displayed alongside the question itself. Stimulus examples include:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>case studies&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>background information&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>key concepts that students should refer too&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To further capture student attention to a particular part of a stimulus, you can highlight text in a section Stimulus. The highlighted text becomes visible to students as outlined per individual questions in the section.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a Stimulus is used for multiple questions, as students moves through the questions; you could highlight different parts of the Stimulus text in line with what is relevant for the selected question.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Using highlighting:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Add a Stimulus (using the document option) to your Section&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>While editing the Stimulus, <strong>select the text <\/strong>that you want highlighted and click on the highlight brush (at the top right of the toolbar)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select the question this highlight refers too:&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/07\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/07\/image.png 554w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/07\/image-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this example, the MCQ question is selected&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click insert&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Repeat for all questions as required&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"6\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Review all highlights using \u2018Section highlights\u2019&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"328\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1.png 328w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1-289x300.png 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"7\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Save&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Important note: <\/strong>for highlighting to be achieved, the Stimulus must be created as a Document.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlighting text within a Stimulus&nbsp;&nbsp; As seen on our dedicated content creation features website, within your Inspera Question Sets using sections, you are able to apply Stimulus to questions.&nbsp;&nbsp; Stimulus can be helpful when authoring exam content, as information that is relevant to question(s) within a section can be displayed alongside the question itself. Stimulus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2025\/07\/01\/inspera-new-feature-using-stimulus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inspera new feature using Stimulus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}