Wiki Page, Curso Canvas: Quiz Questions, Banks and Groups

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It is important to understand that how questions are added to a quiz will affect how the instructor will grade and maintain the quiz.

Option I: Creating a Quiz with Individual Questions

Instructors can create questions directly in a quiz. However, the questions are then automatically stored in question bank called unfiled questions. This will be make it difficult to reuse the questions. Instructors can move questions to another bank at a later time. However, this workflow is not the best. This option is not recommended unless you know you will never want to use these questions again in another quiz.

Option 2: Creating a Quiz with Question Banks

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 or using copy/paste. 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 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 question bank questions 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 and auto regrade student submissions. However, instructors will also need to update the same question in the question bank.

Option 3: Creating a Quiz with Question Groups

If the instructor wants questions randomized on a quiz they should use Questions Groups. Question groups allow instructors to organize a large number of questions into groups, with the option to select the desired number of questions to display on the quiz with a set point value for all questions in the group. When the point value is set for the group it will override the point value set at the question level.

Two Ways to Add Questions to a Group

Adding Questions on the Questions Tab to a Group

Questions can be added to a group by clicking and dragging each question into the group space. Dragging and dropping questions into question groups is fairly easy for a few questions, but if there are several questions in the quiz that need to be added to a group this can become tedious.

Linking to a Question Bank

If the instructor wants questions randomized on a quiz and they want to reuse the questions on other quizzes, they should develop a Question Group that is linked it to the Question Bank. Create a new question group in the quiz. Click the Link to Bank option and select a question bank. Each question group can only link to one question bank. You can add multiple question groups to a quiz.

The instructor does all edits within the Question Bank.

The questions reside within the Question Bank.

Edits are always synced between the quiz and Question Bank.

If a question needs editing after students have taken it, the automatic regrade option will NOT be available for any questions in the linked bank. Students submissions must be manually regraded.