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If you have a question bank with essay questions in a legacy quiz and you want to attach files, can you have them auto open the inline preview to show when students open the question? When I create a question group linked to that bank and I try to take the quiz as a student, I get a message that says I am about to navigate away from my quiz. Is it possible to show the inline preview of the file(s)?
Hi Heidi Redmond,
I think you want How do I set the auto-open for inline preview for files using the Rich Content Editor as an instruct...

Hope that resource does the trick,
Cheers - Shar
Hi Sharmaine,
I got it to open when I created individual questions in the quiz itself, but once I added them to a group linked to a question bank, they stopped auto-opening.
Hi Heidi,
Oh that is curious indeed! Seems like a bug to me, submit a help ticket and see what they have to say.
Hmm, and even if it is a bug you still need a workaround...
Grasping at ideas,
Cheers - Shar
I have the same problem. If I add a single question to a quiz or a group within a quiz, links automatically preview as expected. But if I add the identical question to a bank and then tell the quiz to draw questions from the bank, the link does not automatically open. This is hugely frustrating. Help?
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