[ARCHIVED] Dynamic Quizzes using question banks in Quizzes.next

[mathieu]

Creating dynamic quizzes with Quizzes.next question banks

Some of the design decisions in Canvas are absolutely befuddling.  Here is a case-in-point:

I want to create dynamic quizzes with questions drawn randomly from several question banks.  This allows students who take the quiz multiple times to get a different quiz covering the same concepts.

The existing workflow to do this is to:

1. Create question banks for each concept.
2. Add questions to the question bank... what? I can't do that directly? Add a question to a quiz.
3. Add the newly created question to the question bank.
4. Delete the newly created question from the quiz. (What!?)
5. Repeat steps 2-4 for each question.
6. Go to question bank
7. Add all questions to the quiz (there is no option to select the number of questions from here)
8. Change the settings on the question set to randomly select questions and set the number (I usually select a third of the questions to ensure a good variety between quiz attempts).
9. Repeat steps 2-8 for each concept.
10. Remember how much easier this was in your previous LMS.

Is this really the only way to do this in Canvas? What am I missing? Why in the world can you not create questions inside the bank? Why do you have to add the questions to a quiz only to delete it immediately after?

[langlangcat]

Hi, Mathieu,

These steps are for you to create ( or add new questions to) Classic Quiz (Legacy) question bank and convert it into New Quiz (Quiz.Next)'s item bank so that you can use it in new quiz.

Of course, if you already have your Item Bank in the New Quiz created, you can always add in new questions there directly. 

[mathieu]

No, this is for new quizzes.  I am not using the classic quizzes as they are due to be deprecated in Q4.  Anyway, if you create a question bank in New Quizzes, there is no option to create a new question in the question bank.  You first have to go to the quiz, add a question, then add it to the question bank.  One could then duplicate that question and continue from there, but this only works if all your questions are of the same type.

[langlangcat]

Em... looks like in the item bank there is an add button for you to add in new questions. see screenshot.

[mathieu]

What?!?  When did that get in there? Here is what I see:

[mathieu]

I found it... The add button is only available from the dot menu > manage item banks. 

If you click on the Item banks icon, there is no add button.  Instructure, why?  This seems so senseless.  It's not like there is an economy of screen real estate in the slide out bank.