How To: Adding a Resource Item (PDF or File) to the Player in Atomic Assessments

✅ Use Case

This feature is ideal for showing reference materials, instructions, or supplemental content that students can access while answering questions in the same assessment.

🛠️ Steps to Configure a Resource Item

1. Create a Resource Item

•In Atomic Assessments (from the Content Manager), create a new item to be used as the resource.

•This item can include a passage with a PDF or other embedded files and optional descriptive text.

2. Attach the Resource Item to your Exam/Assessment/Activity

Step 1: Go to an Assesment in your Activity Manager

Step 2: Select "Edit Question List"

Step 3: Select the 3 dot menu and select Resource ItemS

Step 4: Use the browser to select an item

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FIgure 1: Shows where you select your resource item

3. View your Resource Item

Step 1: Go to the preview of your Assessment

Step 2: Look at the player and notice the new Resource Icon

Step 3: Click on it to view your Resource

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Figure 2: Shows the resource item and icon

How To: Adding a Resource Item (PDF or File) to the Player in Atomic Assessments

Atomic Assessments supports the use of resource items—non-question content such as PDFs or reference materials—that appear as a separate tab in the student player interface.

🛠️ Steps to Configure a Resource Item