syrhea genevah orrele
Solana Axton
The Question bank allows a teacher to create, preview and edit questions in a database and use them in the Quiz (or selected ones in a Lesson) activity. Questions are organized in categories and subcategories similar to the way files are stored in folders and subfolders. These categories may be limited to being used on the site, course or quiz level.
Columns you see in the Question bank are separate Moodle plugins. What you see in the Question bank depends on what the administrator has enabled or disabled from Site administration > Question bank plugins > Manage Question bank plugins. They can also rearrange the order the columns appear from Site administration > Plugins > Question bank plugins > Column sort order. However, since Moodle 4.3 teachers can rearrange, remove or resize these columns to customise their own view of the question bank. A reset columns option is also available.
From the Status column you can see which questions are ready to be used in quizzes and which need checking by colleagues. Whether a question is draft or read can be specified when creating the question as well as in this column.
Questions are organised into categories. Initially each course has only one category called "Default". It is good practice to create more categories to organize your questions. This not only makes it easier to find questions, but makes the use of random questions and matching questions easier. You can create a hierarchy of categories because you can create subcategories inside parent categories. To add or edit categories click on the "Categories" tab.
The question editing screen shows the questions from the currently selected category. You choose this category from the Select a category drop-down menu. Using the tick box below that menu you determine whether to also show the questions from all subcategories.
If a question is deleted when it is still being used by a quiz, then it is not removed from the database, because that would cause all sorts of problems. Instead it is just set to hidden. 'Also show old questions' is for showing these hidden questions.
There are separate question category trees in each different 'context' in which questions are shared. The contexts available to you depend on whether you access the question bank from an activity or from a course and depend on the permissions assigned you for access to questions. See Question contexts for more information on these contexts.
There are several ways that this can be accomplished, but I think the easiest would be for you to ask your Canvas Admin to create a shared sandbox (empty Canvas shell) for you and the other instructor. You could then copy the question bank into that shell work on it together, and then draw items from that bank to use in quizzes in your respective courses.
I have a similar, perhaps not exactly the same, question. I don't want to share banks, I want to have a common bank from which multiple courses that I teach pull from. I teach the same course in multiple sections with staggered start dates. When I move to a new edition of the text, I spend time "cleaning" the question banks, as quizzes are taken, by removing poorly worded or overly confusing questions from the bank and giving the poor student to happened to get that question credit for it. So now in one course I have a partial set of "clean" test banks that I'd like to use in the other sections. How can I share these so that they can replace the questions banks already in the second/third course and so that I don't have to re-create the quizzes in those other sections?
In summary, is there a "master" test bank concept that I'm not aware of OR is there a way for me to replace all of the questions in a test bank so that the linkage between that bank and the quiz remains intact?
I established a set of "master" test banks in what I'm calling my "master" course, booked-marked them, and used them in quizzes in a new course. This worked very well. But when I copied that course to second instance (second section), all of the links to the bookmarked banks went away and the quiz malfunctioned for the students. Here's what I see when I edit the quiz:
Hello all. I'm new as a Canvas designer and admin at my school here in Hershey PA. To me, the question banks feature based on what I'm reading sounds very unilateral. As in, Someone can create questions at an admin level which enables teachers to then draw from those questions. But...the rub seems to be that those teachers cannot add questions to the same account. The solution from what I'm reading on here seems to be (exporting is not going to work for us as described):
2. The most realistic option: create a course called "English Department" and make all the English/Language Arts teachers, instructors in the course. No students, no grades--but teachers could create question banks by grade level>course level>unit/topic level. They could then contribute and pull.
Yes. You can have a course with only question banks and all of the teachers have access to the course. Bookmarking the question bank allows the bank to the seen in any other course the teacher belongs to as a teacher.
I've created a bank of 36 questions and I've made a quiz, in which I've drawn 12 random questions from the bank. I get the spinning progress wheel, but it never seems to execute. I 've tried restarting the browser, and the computer, but no luck. Any ideas what may be causing this? The wheel is still spinning... (image attached).
Had a closer look at it: I tried to import the questions one by one into the course instead of letting Rise draw them and it turned out it was one specific question (a multiple-choice, in my case) which was dodgy. The import did not work for this one question.
I deleted that question and set it up from scratch, and now the automatic draw works. No idea why the one question didn't work but this was less work than writing all questions in the question bank new.
(fyi I had initially created questions in the quiz itself, then decided to use a question bank and copied them all - perhaps I wouldn't have had the error if built directly in the question bank - although, that defeats the benefits of being able to copy questions - also fyi that I removed and added images first and the quiz showed the questions but not the images, when I then removed the bank and re-added (as shown in my steps above) everything worked)
Same problem. I don't have any images in any questions that I am trying to draw. The first bank of 5 questions I created was fine. But every other bank I have created since, no good. Just a spinning wheel. The Bank of questions is a complete waste of time, since I have to write them now. I wasted hours!
I've beenusing Moodle 3.X for a year now at our University, and recently, the system wasupdated to version 4.1. I'm surprised that I haven't been able to find anydiscussions about this particular issue. I hope whoever reads this canunderstand my message. ? So here's the situation...
A QuestionBank is associated with a specific course. As I've been teaching the samecourse multiple times, I find myself continuously refining my questions toenhance their quality. These modifications are saved exclusively within theQuestion Bank of that specific course. However, when I want to use an improvedversion of a question in a different course, I need to export and import thequestion. (These questions are typically STACK-type questions, and there arehundreds of them.)
To addressthis, I reached out to our administrator, who created a "sub-QuestionBank" for me and my colleagues. This sub-Question Bank serves as a centralrepository for all our questions. The challenge arises when there are four ofus, the teachers, each possessing hundreds of questions. This makes it quitedifficult to effectively manage and utilize this shared sub-Question Bank.
My questionis: Is it possible to have a similar sub-Question Bank designed for individualteachers? Could I have a personal question bank that is accessible across allof my courses? Thiswould allow me to categorize, organize, and utilize my questions, with updates being automatically applied to each of my courses where thequestion is used.
For me, this resembles the Content Bank tool and repository in some way, where teachers can link H5P activities to the instances of H5P contents added and created in a "mother" course's Content Bank. I'm not surprised users are now seeking a similar functionality for quiz questions. Add to that the Public-Shared-Listed vs Private-Unlisted switching of status on H5P contents and we end up having a pretty effective mechanism for creating, maintaining, and (if desired) sharing contents.
So, really, we need to think: how can we establish if this is a good change for Moodle or not? In these situations, I tend to think that you don't get a good answer just from one bunch of techies outside HQ debating with another bunch of techies inside HQ, based on their opinions or assumptions. It would be much better to find some meaningful ways to engage with users, and find out what would work for them - remembering how diverse the Moodle community is. (So, a year from now, perhaps we could be having a conversation like that in the new Moodle Product Advisory Group (PAG).)
We currently used 'shared questions' with courses organized in the 'District' category. These are courses for specific reason that students need to complete(e.g. Civics Exam for cohort grad year or early SEL curriculum courses for grades K-8). The screenshot attached so the structure for the Civics Course which was created for the Class of 2017 to Class of 2028 the incoming freshmen so there are now 12 courses using the same 100 questions. This was the easiest example to show the structure instead of the SEL which started in 17-18 school year.
One of the benefits of 'shared questions' for the Civics course, is that every 2 years or a new appointment there are 11 potential questions that need to be updated. This is easy enough for a single course, but when these 11 questions are in 4 active courses used once in the US Citizenship Civics Exam and a self-paced Unit Exam: (e.g. Courts) that could be 88 potential edits (worst scenario, but things are crazy now). The Question Editor only needs to change a single question - however since it is a new version the quizzes have to be open and regraded to make sure that the newest version appears on the quiz. That is an extra step, but if 3 questions were updated - that is only a single click for 4 courses instead of editing 24 questions and then regrading each course.
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