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I would like to add questions from my question bank. I have several quizzes listed in my question bank but not all. How do I make sure all of my quizzes are also in my question bank?
I'm curious about this too! I have a colleague working with Classic Quizzes, but not all of her quizzes/banks are listed on the page (though, they exist when building a quiz). I know this question has been open for a while, but I'm curious if anyone can share a solution.
I think it might depend on your process. Two different things that I can think of could be at play. Where are questions being created and where are you viewing question banks?
CREATING:
In classic quizzes, if you create questions within the quiz itself, they are stored in the Question Banks in UNFILED QUESTIONS. (see attached image) If you begin a quiz by creating the question bank first, then building the quiz using FIND QUESTIONS from the bank, you will see the named banks in MANAGE QUESTIONS BANKS. It's pretty easy to organize your unfiled questions after the fact by creating a bank and moving the one/some/all of the questions into it.
How do I create a question bank in a course?
How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a q..
VIEWING:
If you can see a question bank when building a quiz, but not when managing question banks, it could be that the bank is in another course. FIND QUESTIONS allows you to access question banks across your courses. MANAGE QUESTION BANKS, to my knowledge, only shows the banks that "live" in that course. The 2nd attached image shows the bank view from FIND QUESTIONS. Clicking the circled link will take you to MANAGE QUESTION BANKS.
New Quizzes allows you to bank questions as you create them within the quiz. If you're not finding a bank for a particular quiz, you can go back to the quiz and file the questions.
How do I manage item banks in New Quizzes?
Hope this helps. 🙂
Thank you so much for replying, @tbirbeck!
My colleague creates her Questions Bank first and then adds questions to the bank.
She copied her entire course from Fall 2020 into her Fall 2021 course. The banks should follow, or are they always associated with the Fall 2020 course?
@KristinL I would think so. Is it possible the banks don't live in the copied course either? Just a guess without seeing the actual courses. If they do live in the copied course but are not visible in the new course, you could import just the banks again with no harm done. 🙂
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