Question Banks

Introduction

This article will give you an overview of the Question Banks feature in CN. Question banks help instructors easily reuse questions in quizzes. 

The following sections of this article will introduce how to create question banks and how to draw questions from question banks to a quiz. 

Create Question Banks

Step1: Access Question Banks Feature

CN question banks are associated with user accounts, therefore an instructor can access the same set of question banks from any course. You go to a course, go to the Quizzes page, then click Manage Question Banks. 

Step 2: Create a Question Bank 

You can create a new question bank by either manually doing so (click +Create Question Bank), or importing QTI (click +Import QTI). Read this article to learn more about Import QTI. 

Please note that if you are an institution user, your institution may share question banks with you. You can draw questions from these institution question banks, but you cannot edit or delete them.

Step 3: Add Questions to a Question Bank

There are multiple ways to add questions to a question bank. 

• Through +Import QTI, you can continue to add questions to an existing question bank.
• Click the pencil icon to edit an existing personal question. You can then Generate AI Questions (assuming your institution did not disable it) and/or manually add new questions to this question bank. 
  
  
  
• You also have the option to import an entire quiz to an existing question question. You access this option from the course Quizzes list, find the quiz, and use the import option under Actions. 
  

Once you have developed question banks, you are ready to draw questions from them when creating quizzes. 

Draw Questions from Question Banks

When creating a quiz, you may import existing questions from institutional or personal question banks.

Step 1: Click "Import Quesitons from Question Bank" while you are editing a quiz and ready to add quesitons from a question bank. 

Step 2: Select the question bank you would like to import questions from. 

Step 3: Select which quesitons to import. You have three options:

1. Import every question from the question bank. 

2. Randomly import a number of quesitons. You will specify the question number, such as 5. Note, all of your students will get the same questions. 

3. Import selected questions. You will need to enter the question numbers, such as 1-5, 8, 11-13. Then, click "Import". 

Note that you may repeat Steps 1 to 4 to import questions from multiple question banks. 

Step 4(optional): If you do not want to use the imported point values, you can check the box "Set points of all quesitons to an equal value" and enter the desired point value. 

Step 5: Once you are done editing the quiz, remember to click "Done" and publish it to students. 

Related Readings:

Import Quiz Question Banks through QTI

Import Question Banks from Moodle to CN