How to Use Item Banks in New Quizzes
This article details how to create, add content to, and manage item banks.
How do I create an item bank in New Quizzes?
You can create item banks in New Quizzes. Item banks can be used to store questions for use in other quizzes. You can use your item banks in any course where you have permission to create and edit a quiz using New Quizzes.
Once you create content in a quiz Links to an external site., you can add it to an item bank for use in other quizzes. You can add questions or stimulus from any course where you have permission to create and edit a quiz using New Quizzes.
After a question has been added to an item bank, all question properties other than point value and certain options must be edited in the item bank. You should make sure your question is complete before adding it to an item bank.
When you add stimulus content to an item bank, questions attached to the stimulus content are not automatically added and must be added to the item bank manually. Likewise, when you add stimulus content to a quiz from an item bank, attached questions are not automatically added.
Open Item Banks
In Course Navigation, click the Item Banks link.
Add Item Bank
Click the Add Bank button.
Name Item Bank
In the Bank Name field, enter the name of the item bank. To save your bank, click the Create Bank button.
View Item Bank
View your new item bank.
To share the item bank, click the Share icon. To edit the item bank, click the Edit icon. To delete the item bank, click the Delete icon.
You can also access Item Banks from the New Quizzes Build page.
How do I add content to an item bank in New Quizzes?
Open Quizzes
In Course Navigation, click the Quizzes link.
You can also access quizzes from the Assignments page.
Open Build Page
To add content to an item bank, find the quiz you want to open.
To open New Quizzes from an existing quiz, click the Options icon and then click the Build link.
Edit Question
Locate the question you would like to add to the item bank. Click the Edit icon.
Open Item Banking
Click the Item Banking button.
Add Question to Item Bank
Click the Add to Bank link.
Add to Existing Bank
To add the item to an existing item bank, click the Existing item bank option. Then select the item bank you want to use in the Select the destination bank drop-down menu.
To add the item to the bank, click the Add button.
Create New Bank
To create a new bank for the item, click the New item bank option. Then enter the name for the new bank in the New Bank Title field. To add the item to the new bank, click the Add button.
You can manage your item banks within any quiz in New Quizzes. Item banks can be shared with other users Links to an external site. in your account with a teacher, TA, or admin role. Sharing an item bank allows other users to view, edit, and use the item bank.
You can also open New Quizzes to manage item banks by creating a new quiz Links to an external site..
Open Item Banks
In Course Navigation, click the Item Banks link.
View Item Banks
By default, the Item Banks page displays the This Course filter (question banks created in the course). You can also select between viewing All Banks (question banks shared with the user, course, and institution), Institution Banks (question banks shared with your institution), and Banks Shared to this Course (question banks shared with the course).
To search for item banks, enter a search term in the the Search field.
You can sort item banks by the Bank Name, Last Used date, or Last Updated date. You can also sort the item bank names by ascending or descending order.
Each item bank includes the date it was last updated and the number of questions and stimuli it contains.
To create a new item bank Links to an external site., click the Add Bank button.
Open Item Bank
To open an item bank, click the name of the item bank.
View Items
View the items in the item bank.
To search for an item, enter the search criteria in the Search field. Search results will display items with matching results in question titles, question stems, and answer choices.
To filter search results, click the Add Filters button.
View Search Filters
Search results can be filtered by tags or item type.
To filter results by tags, click the Tags and Metadata field and select a tag. Selected tags will display in the Tags and Metadata field. Tags can be created when editing an item bank item Links to an external site..
To filter results by item type, click the item type options you want to view.
Manage Items
To edit an item bank question, click the Edit icon. To move or copy a question to another item bank, click the Copy icon. To delete a question, click the Delete icon. To return to your item bank, click the Item Banks link.
View Item Details
To view more details for a question, click the Open icon. The details will include answer choices, the date and time the item was last updated, and any tags added to the item. To close question details, click the Close icon.
Edit Item Bank
To edit an item bank, click the Edit icon.
Edit Item Bank Name
To change the name of the item bank, enter the name in the Bank Name field. To save the item bank name, click the Save Changes button.
- Questions added to a quiz individually are not removed from the quiz when the item bank is deleted. Question groups that use a random number of item bank items are not be available after the item bank is deleted.
- Once an item bank is deleted, it also loses its statistical link to reports.
Need something more?
More information on New Quizzes can be located in the Instructor New Quizzes guide Links to an external site..
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