Author API Methods

Changes the custom points mode in the Activity editor view.

You would want to use this method so that you can enable or disable custom points mode programmatically, allowing authors to assign point values to each Question in an Item.

Examples

// Enable custom points mode
var result = authorApp.changeCustomPointsMode(true);

// Disable custom points mode
var result = authorApp.changeCustomPointsMode(false);

Arguments

• enabled boolean

  Specifies whether to enable or disable custom points mode.

  Possible values

  • true - enables custom points mode, allowing authors to set point values for each Question
  • false - disables custom points mode, reverting to default scoring

Return value

Type boolean

Returns true if the custom points mode change was successful.

Returns false if unable to change the custom points mode.