Manage Your Question Bank Questions

Questions can be added to the question bank directly or by adding questions to a quiz. When creating a question via the question bank, click "Create a new question" which should be a red button on the left hand side. A window will appear where you will be able to select the type of question you would like to create, then click "Add".

When creating the question, select the category you would like the question to belong in. Then, fill out the other fields including the question name, question text, and other fields depending on the question type.

While it is important to name questions for organizational purposes, there is no "right" way to name questions. However, before adding any questions to your question bank, have a plan for naming your questions for consistency across your course. Consider naming conventions appropriate for your topic that will help you locate questions for future quizzes. Adding tags to questions can help with this, as well. 

Look at an example from our General Science course on one way to name questions. As questions are added to a category, three pieces of information are added to the name:

• Topic
• Question number (within that topic)
• Sub-topic

As a result, a question added to the category "Alternative Energy Sources" might have the name "Alternative Energy, Q1 (Wind)." Subsequent questions can be named in the same manner, allowing easy identification of the topic, subtopic, and number of questions in the category. 

Adding question tags allows you to filter your question bank and locate questions based on your assigned criteria. Common tags include question type (ex., multiple-choice, essay), content reference (ex., Chapter 7, novel name), or topic (ex., renewable resources, World War II). Questions can have multiple tags. For example, one of our alternative energy questions might have the following tags: renewable resources, multiple-choice, Chapter 7:

To add a tag to a question, open your question bank and the category where your questions are located. Next to the question you'd like to tag, select "Edit" and "Manage tags."

You can add question tags when creating a question by typing them directly into the search bar and hitting "return." Additionally, you can select a previously entered tag by selecting it in the search bar.

Once your questions have been tagged, you can filter them by one or more tags. For example, you could apply a filter for all astronomy questions in your question bank.