What is the Item Editor?

The Item Editor is the primary mode in the Author API for the creation of new Items, Questions and Features. It provides a simple, user friendly interface to create new Item content.

It encompasses the Item Editor view, including settings to control Item layout, tagging, and dynamic content tables (if enabled). It provides an edit view which allows you to add or change any Questions or Features, and a preview to allow authors to preview and test the Item created from the learner's perspective.

You can configure what options are available to authors, and can optionally skip the author straight to the Question Editor, in cases where you intend to only have one Question per Item, or have more prescriptive layouts.

For more information, see the Item Editor section in this article: A Tour of the Views in Learnosity Authoring. 

To see the configuration settings that can be applied by developers, see the Item Edit configuration in the Learnosity developer reference documentation.

What is the Widget Editor?

On clicking the blue plus symbol, or using the navigate() method to create a new Question, you're presented with the Widget Editor, which allows authors to add new Questions or Features to an Item. 

In this view, authors can select any Question or Feature to add to an Item, and you can tailor this view to show only the Question types, or custom Question templates, that you want your authors to use.

For more information, see the Widget Editor section in this article: A Tour of the Views in Learnosity Authoring. 

To see the configuration settings that can be applied by developers, see the article Customizing Question Attributes and Templates in the Learnosity developer reference documentation.