[ARCHIVED] What is the purpose for question bank and question group?

[gtang]

Please describe the detail features of question bank and question group. What are the advantages and disadvantages?

Thank you!

[gtang · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your response, Kelley. Where can I find information on how to develop question back and/or group?

Thanks,

Gayle

Gayle Tang, MSN, RN

Health Education Department

City College of San Francisco

50 Phelan Avenue, MU 353

San Francisco CA 94112

www.ccsf.edu/hci

[kmeeusen]

Hi  @gtang ‌

Great question!

A question bank is a repository for questions that can then be added to a Canvas quiz or quizzes. I'll bet you are thinking, "Then why not just build them in a quiz and save the extra work?"  With a question bank (soon to be more accurately called "Item Banks" in Canvas) you can literally create hundreds of questions around a single topic, or upload hundreds of question per chapter from publisher resources. This provides an opportunity for teachers to select from a wide variety of questions when developing a quiz, developing more than one quiz for a specific assessment strategy and rotate them between terms, or even draw a random set of questions into a quiz using question groups. It even permits the development of more individualized tests using differentiated assignments in Canvas, and also supports assessment security. Using bookmarked question banks it is even possible to create quizzes in several courses for which the question items are drawn from the same banks. And in fact, question banks can be created at the account or sub-account levels and then be made available to all courses (or a subset based on a sub-account) for the development of quizzes. 

Question Banks are good juju!

Question groups allow you to place multiple questions within a group for students to answer. You can choose the number of questions that should be answered from the group and how many points to assign each question. Creating a question group randomizes questions within a quiz, and all questions in a group come from a question bank. This ability to use question groups, helps improve the security of an online assessment.

I hope this helps,

Kelley.

[gtang · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your response, Kelley. Where can I find information on how to develop question back and/or group?

Thanks,

Gayle

Gayle Tang, MSN, RN

Health Education Department

City College of San Francisco

50 Phelan Avenue, MU 353

San Francisco CA 94112

www.ccsf.edu/hci

[kona]

 @gtang ‌, I'd start with the Canvas Instructor Guide - Table of Contents and more specifically the following guides - https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10357-415250747 & How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank? 

Hope this helps!

[kmeeusen · Accepted solution]

Thanks,  @kona ‌!

You Rock!

[NicoleSimmons]

@kmeeusen I don't see how I can access the question banks from other courses? Why is this so cumbersome? Wouldn't it be easier and more efficient to just take the quiz and "copy to" another course? The whole exporting and importing of a question bank is ridiculous and overwhelming to some. I thought the question back would be a globally accessible feature where all teachers (at least within the district) can pull from and contribute to. Am I missing something!?