[ARCHIVED] Question pools

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How do you create a question pool in Canvas for a quiz?

[James · Accepted solution]

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In Canvas legacy quizzes, the ability to randomly select a fixed number of questions from among a pool of available questions is called a question group. You also have question banks, which can hold the questions. Question banks are optional, you can create the questions directly within the quiz. If you do use question banks, you can link to them or find them from the bank and include them in the quiz.

Further complicating issues is that in New Quizzes, the process is called item banks.

The Canvas Instructor Guide has a table of contents that provides lessons on many things. If the highlights I've pulled out below don't answer the question, you may want to look at the Guide for more information.

Here are some of the lessons about question groups and item banks from the guide.

For legacy quizzes:

• How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?  
• How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank?  
• How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank?  

For New Quizzes:

• How do I create an item bank in New Quizzes?  
• How do I add content to an item bank in New Quizzes?  
• How do I add all items or a random set from an item bank to an assessment in New Quizzes?