Sending Classic Quizzes Question Banks to other instructors

[SusanNiemeyer]

I would like for a colleague to have access to the Question Banks that I have created in Classic Quizzes. When I send her a Classic Quiz, she only receives the "Details" section, but not the "Question Bank" with all of my questions.

I know that this can be done for New Quizzes, but what about Classic Quizzes? (Both of us are "old school.")

Thanks!

[pbingham]

Hello @SusanNiemeyer, 

Thank you for posting in the community!

I can absolutely understand being old school and using only classic quizzes. We have a few options that I just played around with in my own sandbox course that might help you out!

1. If you are using "Question Banks" for classic quizzes there is no inherent way to share just the question bank AND all the questions inside them together. We have to share the questions that are found in the bank and that can be done one of two ways:
   1. You can add those questions to a classic quiz and use the "Send to" function to send the entire quiz to your friend by typing in their name. Guide on that HERE. Keep in mind the questions have to appear inside the quiz (see screenshot 1) and they cant be "linked" to a question bank. 
   2. You can add those questions from the bank into the quiz (same as in screenshot 1) and "Export" a copy of the quiz. This will give you a downloadable QTI file that you can email to your friend and when they "Import" that into their course it will create a quiz & a question bank. THIS is how you export a quiz in this manner. 

If you have any problems or additional followup with how you have been sharing question banks with your friend we are happy to followup!

[SusanNiemeyer]

Thanks so much, @pbingham, for your suggestions.

Each Question Bank has from 60 to 80 questions in it, from which I draw 15 questions for a timed Quiz given in a synchronous class (Zoom). The students see each question one at a time, and they can't go and change their answers. The reason for this is to avoid cheating.

For this scenario, would you recommend Option 1 or Option 2?

[pbingham]

Absolutely glad to help!

Thank you for that additional context. 

I would suggest option 1 based on what you have described and I want to include a few other things that would be helpful to keep in mind if you go with option 1:

1. In order to use the "Send To" function your friend would need to be in the same school you are in or have access to the same Canvas environment you are working in. If they belong to another school I would suggest option 2 above and email them the file. 
2. Since your question banks have so many questions in them there is an easy way to place those question in your quiz so they will be sent to your friend. I made an interactive scribe that shows the steps on how to place the questions in your quiz so they are included when you use the "Send to" function. 

Overall, I think this should be a pretty straightforward process. If you prefer our guides the steps I outlined in my scribe can also be found with the relevant guide below:

• How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank?

Let me know if you need further assistance!