Fixing item bank questions used in more than one quiz

[JohnKroll]

SItuation:

Item bank A is used in quiz A, Item bank B is used in quiz B, etc. In addition to having students take each of those quizzes individually, I also create a later cumulative quiz, X, that uses Item banks A, B, C, etc.

When I present quiz A to students, I discover that one of the questions had the wrong answer. I regrade their quiz accordingly, but that doesn't change the question in the item bank.

I go into the item bank to fix the question, but I have to edit a copy of the question. The alert tells me the new version will only be seen by students who haven't already taken the quiz.

My question: What about when I re-use Item bank A in quiz X? If a student had already encountered the problem question when taking quiz A, will they nevertheless see the correct version of it when it appears in quiz X? Or something else?

[MatthewClifft]

Hi JohnKroll, 

Thank you for reaching out. In the example, the "copy" would be the version of the question moving forward. If you update that question in the item bank, and then have another student take the quiz, they will see the updated version of the question, not the older version. This is for any quiz or attempt after the edit has been made, but no prior attempts. 

We use this terminology to help distinguish that submitted attempts or in-progress attempts cannot be edited by editing the questions, and that you would only be editing the future attempts of students.