Use the icon data type in Education Cloud to create pulse check assessment questions that students can respond to with emojis. Create a rating scale by assigning numeric values to the icon responses and view the student’s sentiments over time with score graphs.
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with Education Cloud |
| USER PERMISSIONS NEEDED | |
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| To create assessment questions: |
Education Cloud Full Access |
- From the App Launcher, find and select Assessment Questions.
- Click New.
- Select Icon as the data type.
- To make this question active, select Active.
- Under Response Values, select an icon, and then enter its label and numeric value.
- To add more rating levels, click Add Rating Level.
- If needed, provide other relevant details.
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Save your changes.
An assessment question version choice is created with the rating level details.
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Icon data type doesn’t require a decision matrix for response score calculation. However,
if your assessment questions have icon and other data types, ResponseValueScore gets set to
null. To avoid this:
- Clone the Update Assessment Question Response Score flow.
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Modify the section of the new flow as shown.

- Activate the flow.
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