ID&D KB How-to Guide
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In New Quizzes, Item banks are used to store questions for use in multiple assessments, for randomizing questions within an assessment, and for sharing questions with others. Item Banks are associated with a user and can be used in multiple courses. Questions updated in an Item bank are updated in all assessments that use that question. You can use your item banks in any course where you have permission to create and edit an assessment using New Quizzes. Questions in item banks can be added to a New Quiz individually or as a randomized group. This guide provides instruction on how to create Item Banks and add questions to those banks.
Creating Item Banks with Questions via a quiz
First, create a Quiz or locate an existing Quiz and select Build.
To the right of Build heading, select the Item Banks button.
Please note: When creating an Item Bank it is recommended that you add the course and other syntax to distinguish Item Banks from one another as they no longer sit within a single course. For example, questions related to COMM 100 using the OER Communication in the Real World course materials might have an Item Bank title of “COMM 100 CRW Chapter 1”. In addition, questions that you want to be randomized together must be in their own Item Bank. For example, all questions related to the transactional model of communication must be in their own Item Bank such as “COMM 100 CRW Chapter 1 - Transactional Model”.
Click + Bank to create an Item Bank.
Enter a title for the Item Bank (treat this similar to a folder name). If you plan to use this item bank in the current course, select the checkbox with the course name. Then click Create Bank.
Click on the title of the Item Bank you just created to add questions.
To add a question to the Item Bank, select the blue plus icon and create your desired question.
Using Item Banks to add questions to an assessment
Click the (a) blue plus button to add a question and (b) select the Item Banks icon (above the list of question types).
Locate the Item Bank that contains the questions you want to use in the assessment.
Once you have located the Item Bank with existing questions, click on the title to see the questions.
To add a single question from the item bank to the assessment:
To add the entire Item Bank to randomize the delivery of the questions to the students, select the All/Random button:
Repeat steps 2-3 to add questions to your assessment. After adding all of the desired questions from Item Banks, click the X to close the Item Banks window.
To establish settings for randomized questions from an Item Bank, locate the desired Item Bank in the list of questions and select the pencil icon to edit.
To use and randomize all questions in the Item Bank, select Use all questions under Question selection.
To select a specific number of questions from the entire Item Bank, select Randomly select questions under Question selection.
Establish the number of points for each question in the Item Bank and click Done to save.
Continue adding questions. Once you have added all the questions to your assessment from Item Banks, you can adjust your Settings or click the Return button in the top right to return to your MyClasses course area.
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