Definition
With Hot Text questions, students can demonstrate understanding by citing evidence by clicking highlighted text in a sentence, paragraph, or extended reading. Teachers can define questions to allow a single choice or multiple choices.
Create a Hot Text question:
Click on the blue + button to open the 'Add Item' window
Choose "Hot Text" from the Paid Questions list
Enter your question along with any prompts or directions to the question text box
Enter the text you want your students to interact with to the second text box
To turn parts of the text into Hot Text items select (highlight) them and checkmark the box next to the "Hot Text" pop up that appears upon each of your selections
Hot Text items will remain highlighted and appear in a list below the text
To remove a Hot Text item - click the X symbol next to it on the list
Set up your auto-grading by checking the correct answer(s)
To allow multiple selections toggle "Allow Multiple Selections" on
Adjust question settings
Students will not be able to submit their work without providing an answer
Add a whiteboard style box for your students to showcase their work
Switch scoring method for this question from auto-grading to a rubric based grading.
If you toggld on "Multi-select" you will also have the ability to allow **Partial Credit" to take auto-grading up a notch by allowing your students to get credit for answering part of the question correct.
You can also add hints for your students, and tag the question to standards.
*Partial Credit
How we grade the "Allow Partial Credit" feature in Hot Text questions
When you select “Allow Partial Credit”* you can choose between subtracting points for incorrect answers, or not subtracting points for incorrect answers.
If you choose to subtract points for incorrect answers, students’ scores will be auto-graded like this:
Let's take a look at an example of how this works in practice. Here is a Hot Text answer key:
To receive 100% of the score, students will need to choose only the 2 correct answers.
Here are some examples of student responses to this Hot Text question, along with their auto-graded scores:
Student A
Student B
Student C
If you choose not to subtract points for incorrect answers:
Let's take a look at an example of how this works in practice.
Here is the same Hot Text answer key as before, this time with the True/False approach:
Here are the same examples of student responses to this Hot Text question, along with their auto-graded scores, when choosing not to subtract points for incorrect answers.
Student A
Student B
Student C
Did you know?
Hot Text questions are a standard STAAR question type used by the state of Texas.