Questions and Question Groups

Questions can be created in two ways:

• independently in the question bank
• directly within a lesson or assessment when adding a question component

For the two methods, the process of creating the question is the same.

When you create a question in the question bank, you must then add the question to one or more lessons or assessments.

When you create a question within a lesson or an assessment, that question is automatically added to the lesson or assessment.

In addition, you can create a question group that groups a set of questions around some contextual material or just to make it easier to add a number of questions as a set.

You can get statistics on questions to improve the course.

Question Bank

To get started with questions, go to Create > Questions.

On this page, you will see a bank of questions along with buttons to add new questions.

The screenshot below is a truncated screenshot of a bank of 15 questions.

For each question, you can see

• its description
• what question groups it belongs to (if any)
• what lessons and assessments it has been added to
• when it was last modified
• whether it is a multiple choice (MC) or a short answer (SA) question

Together, the bank and the buttons just above it let you:

• create questions
• filter questions
• preview questions
• edit existing questions
• add questions to question groups

Create Questions

There are four ways to create questions. Click the options below to learn more.

• add a new multiple choice question
• add a new short answer question
• import GIFT questions
• clone an existing question

Filter Questions

You can use the Filter button near the top right of the page to filter questions in the bank.

Clicking Filter opens a dialog with options for filtering:

Preview Questions

You can preview a question to see how it will appear to students.

Click the icon next to the question that you want to preview.

Edit Questions

You can edit a question by clicking on its description.

Add to Question Groups

Click the icon in the Question Groups column to add the question to an existing question group.

A question group groups together a set of questions. Learn more about question groups.

Course Builder Analytics for Questions

Go to Manage > Questions to run the statistics on questions.

To collect and view this data, your course must set up for Course Builder analytics. Learn more about Course Builder Analytics.