Question Banks

Question banks are the building blocks of assessments.  They can be reused and associated with multiple assessments.  You can have fill in the blank, multiple choice, true/false, multiple select, or matching question types.

1. Click Admin
   
   
2. Click Learning Management
   
   
3. Click Activity Management
   
   
4. Click Question Banks. This will open a new window.
   
   
   
   
5. Click Add. This will open a new dialog box.
   
   
6. Input the Name
   
   
7. Input a Description
   
   
8. Click the Change button if you need to switch domains (if you have child domains)
   
   
9. Click Change if you need to change the owner
   
   
10. Click Change if you need to add additional topics or change selected topics
    
    
11. Input a Code. Do not use spaces, underscores here are fine.
    
    
12. Click Done. This will take you to a new screen
13. Click Add Questions. This will take you to a new screen.  Scroll down to see the steps for various question types.

Fill in the blanks

14. Select the Question Type. This controls the rest of the fill ins.  See below for how to complete other question types.  Note:  Fill in the blanks can be problematic as you have to try to account for whatever answer they would use; acronyms, full name, misspellings in the answer
    
    
15. Put in the Question Code
    
    
16. Put in your Question
    
    
17. Input Question Feedback. This is to help individuals get the answer right.
    
    
18. Put in the acceptable answers. Press Enter to input each answer that is valid. Remember people may use acronyms or misspell something. 
    
    
19. Provide Answer Feedback, if desired.
    
    
20. Select if you want the answers to be Case Sensitive.
    
    
21. Click Add Another Question to add questions or Done if you are finished

True / False Questions

14. Select True / False
    
    
15. Input the Question Code
    
    
16. Input your Question
    
    
17. Provide Question Feedback if desired
    
    
18. Use the radio button to select the correct Answer.
    
    
19. Choice will fill in.
    
    
20. Provide Choice Feedback (if desired)
    
    
21. Click Add Another Question to add questions or Done if you are finished
    

Multiple Choice

14. Select Multiple Choice
    
    
15. Put in the Question Code
    
    
16. Put in your Question
    
    
17. Provide Question Feedback if desired.
    
    
18. Skip down to Choice; Input your Answer in the Choice field
    
    
19. Click on Add (which is above Choice).

Note:  The answer will automatically fill in the answer field above.

Note:  Repeat steps 17 and 18 as many times as you need to get your multiple choice answers.

20. Select the correct answer.
    
    
21. Click Add Another Question to add questions or Done if you are finished

Multiple Select

14. Choose Multiple Select
    
    
15. Put in the Question Code
    
    
16. Put in your Question
    
    
17. Provide Question Feedback if desired.
    
    
18. Skip down to Choice Input your Answer in the Choice field
    
    
19. Click on Add (which is above Choice).

Note:  The answer will automatically fill in the answer field above.

Note:  Repeat steps 17 and 18 as many times as you need to get your multiple choice answers.

20. Select the correct answers.
    
    
21. Input a %age of 100 in the Score fields beside each answer. The scores can be weighted and need to add up to 100%.  This allows you to assign weights to answers if you wish.
    
    
22. Click Add Another Question to add questions or Done if you are finished

Matching Items

14. Choose Matching Items
    
    
15. Put in the Question Code
    
16. Put in your Question
    
    
17. Provide Question Feedback if desired.
    
    
18. Skip down to Option on the left and put in an option.
    
    
19. Skip down to Option on the right, and put in an option.
    
    
20. Click on Add above Option on the Left.

Note:  The answer will automatically fill in the answer field above.

Note:  Repeat steps 17 and 19 as many times as you need to get your matching items answers.

21. Input a %age of 100 in the Score fields beside each answer. The scores can be weighted and need to add up to 100%.  This allows you to assign weights to answers if you wish.
    
    
22. Add Option feedback if desired.
    
    
23. Click Add Another Question to add questions or Done if you are finished
    
    
24. Once you have all of the questions you desire. You need to publish the Question Bank by clicking on “other actions” and selecting “publish” in the drop down.