New Quizzes - Item Banks

[mcarrion]

I am trying to figure out how to handle item banks within a course. Is there a way to create them within the course? Every time I try it, I automatically get in the "All Banks" section. I have also tried to share them from "All banks" to "This Course", but it is merely a shortcut to the original bank. I need the banks to be on the course.

[jmarrapodi]

@mcarrion You can import question from your item banks into your course. When you build a test, you navigate to the item bank and tell the system how many you want to pull. I got it to work seamlessly only to discover that the outcomes linked to each question in the test bank don't show in the reporting. 😞 

Were these the directions you were following? https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-manage-item-banks-in-New-Quizzes/ta-p/1...

[mcarrion]

I followed your suggestion, but the result is the same. I mean, any edits I make to the original bank affect the content within the quiz. In essence, as I said, it's still a shortcut to the original bank. However, when doing the test, I noticed a warning showing that only students who had not worked with the quiz could see the changes; not so those who have already completed it. Does this mean then that if I were to make changes to any bank in the future, past courses would not reflect such change? That might be the solution I'm looking for.

On the other hand, that detail about the outcomes is very important and I have to look at it. Thanks for sharing.

[jmarrapodi · Accepted solution]

@mcarrion I think that's the way it's supposed to work. You build in the bank, import it into courses, students take the exam. If you edit a question in the bank, it creates a new version of the question, which updates for any students who haven't take the test yet. The exams already taken by past students stay as is. That way if you have routine updates to questions you only need to make them once, in the bank, and it is set for all future test takers. If you do it in the middle of the exam, the students who did the question work with the old, and students who hadn't seen the question yet get the new.