Wiki Page, Welcome to Canvas 101: Creating a Quiz with Question Banks

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It is best to import or create questions in a question bank so that the questions will be organized and thus easy to use in additional quizzes in the same course or another course. Instructors can create multiple banks to organize questions by standard, chapter, subject, or question type.

For the purpose of tracking proficiency of standards, an instructor should create a bank for each standard. Using the Align Outcome button for the bank, you can associate it with a particular standard.

To create, edit or delete question banks in the course, click Quizzes on the left course navigation. On the quiz index page click the gear icon above the quiz list and select Manage Question Banks. After creating a bank, you can add questions by typing them, using copy/paste, or importing them. You can also move questions to another bank.

If you have a lot of question banks, you can use the bookmarking feature to allow you easy access the banks you are using for the current unit of study.

Give each Question Bank and each Question a Meaningful Title

The question bank titles are important. The titles will be the first thing instructors see when viewing the question bank page. Similarly question titles are important as well because they will be the first ￼￼￼identifying piece of information instructors will see when locating questions in the Find Question bank dialog box. It can be helpful to include information about the question type in the question title. For example, a multiple choice question about Lincoln from chapter 1 in the textbook could be named as follows: Ch01-Lin-MC01. The key here is to develop a naming convention that works for you.

Creating the Quiz and Finding Questions Within the Banks

After you've created the necessary banks of questions, you will create a new quiz. On the questions tab of the new quiz you will use the Find Questions button. Use it to select a bank and then select all or some of the questions in that bank. You can select questions from multiple banks.

In the Find dialog box select the bank from the left pane. Questions will appear on right pane and can be selected and added to a question group. Check the box next to an individual question OR click Select All.

It is important to note that if a question bank has a large number of questions, not all the questions will display in the right pane. If using the Select All option NOT all questions in the question bank will be selected until the instructor scrolls down the right pane and clicks more questions. This may take two or three scrolls up and down and clicking more questions a couple of times before all questions will display in the right pane and can be selected. Then click Select All and scroll down to add the questions to question group.

Sequence of Questions

The questions display in the quiz in the same order in which they are displayed in the Questions tab. Instructors can drag and drop questions on the Questions tab page to rearrange them.

No Direct Link Between Questions in the Bank and Questions in the Quiz

When adding questions from a question bank to a quiz, a copy of each question is placed in the quiz. If an error is found with a question in a quiz, instructors can edit the quiz question in the quiz and auto regrade student submissions. However, instructors will also need to update the same question in the question bank.