Item banks for course assessments

Overview

Item Banks allow you to create a repository of assessment questions to use within course assessments.

The current version of Items Banks gives instructors the ability to:

• Create an item bank in resources.

• Add questions to item banks.

• Add questions from an item bank to an assessment.

• Add a random selection of questions from item banks to an assessment.

• Convert an existing test or quiz question bank to an item bank.

Create an item bank

Item banks can be created in Personal and Group Resources.

1. Navigate to Resources and choose Personal or Group.

2. Click the Collection or Group in which you'd like to add an item bank.

3. Click Add Resources.

4. Select Add Item Bank.

5. Enter a title and description for the item bank and click Create.

Edit an item bank

1. Navigate to Resources and choose Personal or Group.

2. Click the item bank’s title.

3. Select Actions and choose:

   1. Edit Name and Description to change the name and description.

   2. Move to to move the item bank to another collection in Resources.