You create question banks within a folder. When a question bank is ready for use in a test, you publish the question bank. After publication, you can use the question bank to create tests, or select the Quick Test option to create a test based on all the questions in the bank.
Question banks consist of questions, each containing the question text (or question stem or prompt), possible responses, and feedback (if any). The feedback typically informs the test taker if they have answered correctly, and can include a learning tip.
When you create a question, you decide what type it is, such as multiple choice, true-or-false, or free text. Once you create the question, you cannot change from one type to another, since the style of responses depends on the question type. The exception is for multiple choice, where you can change from a multiple choice single correct response to a multiple choice multiple correct response.
A response is a possible answer to a question. Each question has a set of responses, depending on the question type:
True or False: The two values, True and False, are not editable. Select the correct response value, either True or False.
Fill-in-the-Blank: Enter one or more correct responses. Text responses are case-sensitive, so enter the correct response in both lower and upper case, if either is correct.
Multiple Choice (Single Correct Response): Enter two or more response values, from which the learner must select one correct choice.
Multiple Choice (Multiple Correct Responses): Enter three or more response values, from which the learner must select two or more correct choices. Learners must select all the correct responses to gain the points awarded to the question.
Free Text (Not Scored): The free text question is not scored and does not have the correct response validation. You can provide feedback, if required. Instructors must manually check the responses of the free text questions to decide whether responses are satisfactory.
Once you use a question in one or more tests, and a learner has taken that test, you cannot delete the question from the question bank. Similarly, you cannot delete a response value if the question already appears in a test and if at least one learner has answered that question. You can mark a question or response as inactive, which makes it unavailable for future tests, but does not affect previously created tests and existing performance records.
You create a Quick Test if the test uses all or majority of questions in a question bank. A Quick Test takes the default properties, and contains a single test section that holds all questions (preselected) from the question bank. You can edit the test to modify the properties, for example to set the scoring option and mastery score, or to add or remove questions.
Note: You cannot use the quick test option to create a rule-based test, in which you display a number of questions extracted randomly from the question bank to the learner.