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 left-hand 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 and optional description, and click “Create.” This will bring you to the assessment builder.
In the assessment builder, you’ll first want to add the required author by navigating to the Author section near the top left, clicking the edit icon (square with pencil), and typing the author into the associated Author textbox.
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.
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 four columns: Correct, Answers, Rationale, 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.
Answers corresponds to the answer-choices visible to the learner. To edit, simply type or paste in the desired text in the text editor box provided.
Rationale allows you to add response rationale to each answer-choice. Clicking the “+” in this column will result in a popup window with a separate text editor box to the right of all current answer choices to add an optional response rationale.
Delete allows you to remove an option from the group of answer choices.
To add more options to your group of answer-choices, click on the “+ Add List Item” 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 you either a) you need to add an author, or b) 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 those questions to any course built within a team you have access to. For more on creating question bank assessments, click here.