What Is Tagging?

Tags are used in ADAM authoring to make Items and Activities more contextualized and easily searchable, and to be able to report on student performance.

Items, Forms and Passages can be tagged. Tags cannot be added to Questions or Features. 

Tags will always appear in the format Tag Type: Tag, where a Tag Type is something like 'Subject' and a Tag is something like 'English'. You can have many Tags associated with a Tag Type.

In the Author Site, we have developed a Tag manager interface that allows you to create, modify and delete both Tags and Tag types.

Figure 1:  The Author Site tag manager

Tags can also be used to set the parameters for Item, Passages and Form selection. 

Figure 2:  Tag Filter

To tag a Passage or Item  on the ADAM Authoring Site

1. Edit the Passage or Item
2. Choose Properties from the navigation items on the left
3. Add the Tag Type and Tag within the Tag editor
   • Be sure to click the  button to save the add

To tag a Form on the ADAM Authoring Site

1. Edit the Form
2. Add the Tag Type and Tag within the Tag editor
   • Be sure to click the  button to save the add

Figure 3:  Tag Editor