Question Bank Restriction

The Question Bank Segregation feature gives you the capability to manage permissions across different groups within your organisation, such as specialities, themes or year groups. In addition to controlling the functional permissions of a user, for example assigning them as a Question Author, it is now possible to control which part of the Question Bank they have access to.

Step-by-step guide

The first step is to create a blueprint dimension that you will apply to users to manage which part of the Question Bank they have access to. For example, if a user belongs to the specialty of psychiatry you can create this relationship by assigning them to the psychiatry specialty as a Blueprint Dimension category. This will restrict access to Items that are tagged to the psychiatry specialty. A user can be assigned to multiple specialties.

  1. Click on the Blueprints tab

Click Edit Master Blueprint

Click on Add new Dimension

Enter Dimension name i.e “specialty”

Select Dimension type “Discrete”

Check “Applicable to OSCE items”

Check “Applicable to Written items”

Check “Applicable to users”

Check “Mandatory”

Click on Create

2. In section “Blueprint Dimensions not assigned to any Blueprint Map”

For Dimension “Specialty” click on Edit Dimension categories

Click on Add new Category

Enter category Text i.e. “psychiatry”

Click on Create Category

Click on Back to Category list

Click on Back to Dimensions

Repeat the above to create all categories within the Dimension

3. Continuing on the Blueprints tab

Click on Add new Blueprint Map

Enter Name i.e. “Specialty”

Click on Create

Click on Edit map

Select Please select dimension “specialty”

Click on Add to this map

Click on Submit for Review

Click on Submit

Click on Approve

Click on Approve to confirm

4. Click on Back to Blueprint maps

Create User Groups

Users need to be assigned to a User Group before you can modify their blueprint restrictions i.e. specialty

  1. Click on Settings tab

Click on Practique User Groups

Click on Create New User Group

Enter Name “Question Author”

Check Available Permissions

2. Create Users or edit permissions of existing users

Click on Settings tab

Click on Practique Users

Click on Create new User or Edit an existing user

Enter Username

Enter First name and Last name

Enter Email address

 

Select Global permissions “Manually assign permissions or groups”

Check Available Groups “Question Author”

Click on Modify restrictions

Click on Change for Specialty

Select Specialty i.e. “Psychiatry”

Click on Save

Repeat the above steps for all Question Author users to assign them to their “Specialty”

3. User accessing the Question bank after permissions have been modified

Click Items

By default the user will only have access to the specialty or multiple that the are assigned