Question Banks are collections of questions used to quickly and easily build assessments within courses by linking the desired number of questions from published question banks, which then get randomized for each assessment iteration.

To create a question bank, navigate to the Question Banks section under Assessments in the lefthand navigation menu, then click on the “+ Create New Question Bank” button at the top right. In the resulting popup menu, connect your question bank to its associated course, give it a title, designate an author, add an optional description, and click “Create.” This will bring you to the assessment builder.

To build your question bank, create true/false or multiple choice questions by clicking the “New Question” dropdown and selecting the desired question-type.

True/False

The True/False question-type allows you to ask a learner a simple true or false question. After choosing True/False in the question popup window, the right side of the menu will display the True/False Editing Area, allowing you to create your question and select the correct response.

To create your question, type or paste the question’s text into the text-editor box under the Question section in the True/False Editing Area. To set the question’s answer, click on the checkbox that corresponds to the correct answer under the Correct Response column in the True/False Options section. A correct answer must be selected for all question items in order to publish the question bank.

An optional media asset (image, video, or audio) can be attached to a question by selecting any of the file types from below the question. A pop-up window will open, allowing you to select an existing file (by searching for the asset by title) or upload a new one. Only one media type can be attached per question, and the file can be removed using the “x Remove” button on the far right.

If you’d like to add an answer rationale to the true/false question, type it in the provided Response Rationale text editor box.

Multiple Choice

The Multiple Choice question-type allows you to ask a learner a simple multiple-choice question. After choosing Multiple Choice in the question popup window, the right side of the menu will display the Multiple Choice Editing Area, allowing you to create your question, edit the available answer choices, and select the correct answer.

To create your question, type or paste the question’s text into the text-editor box under the Question section in the Multiple Choice Editing Area.

To create your list of answer-choices and select the correct answer, navigate to the Multiple Choice section, which consists of three columns: Correct, Answers, and Delete.

• Correct consists of checkboxes used to select the correct response. Click the checkbox next to the corresponding answer to set the correct response. Only one correct answer can be selected per question.

• Answers corresponds to the answer-choices visible to the learner. To edit, simply type or paste the desired text in the text editor box provided.

• Delete allows you to remove an option from the group of answer choices by selecting the “X” button to the right of any question.

The Rationale text box allows you to add response rationale to each answer-choice. This is optional.

To add more options to your group of answer-choices, click on the “+ Add Option” button at the bottom left of the Multiple Choice Configurations section.

Once you’ve completed your question bank, click the “Publish” button near the top right. If the publish button is grayed out, it means that one or more of the questions requires additional information (often a correct response has not been selected).

Now that your question bank is published, you’ll be able to link any number of these questions to any course built within a team you have access to. For more on creating question bank assessments, click here.

Importing and Exporting Question Banks

Importing Question Banks

To import question banks, please follow the directions below:

• File type = .CSV (comma-separated values)

• A header row that matches this snippet (also found in the example file available above)

  Code Block
  QUESTION_TYPE,QUESTION_TEXT,TRUE_FALSE_CORRECT_ANSWER,answer_1_text,answer_1_weight,answer_2_text,answer_2_weight,answer_3_text,answer_3_weight,answer_4_text,answer_4_weight,answer_5_text,answer_5_weight,answer_6_text,answer_6_weight,answer_7_text,answer_7_weight,answer_8_text,answer_8_weight,answer_9_text,answer_9_weight,answer_10_text,answer_10_weight

• A maximum of one hundred (100) questions total (101 rows total when including the header row)

• A QUESTION_TYPE of one of the following:

  • SELECT_STRING (multiple choice)

  • BOOLEAN (true/false)

• A value of TRUE or FALSE for the TRUE_FALSE_CORRECT_ANSWER column

• A minimum of two (2) answer_#_text options for each question.

• A maximum of ten (10) answer_#_textoptions for each question.

• Answers must be completed in corresponding order.

  • If an answer_#_text column is skipped, question options added after the blank column(s) will not be generated.

• Provide an answer_#_weight value of one (1) for the correct option.

• For all other corresponding question options, leave the answer_#_weight value empty or with a value of zero (0).

Exporting Question Banks