Reusing Questions

Questions can be reused for Tests to simplify course development or to build blocks of questions that are presented randomly to students. You can reuse questions from Question Banks or from other tests in the same course; you can also import question banks from publishers (often distributed as a .zip file).

Ultra Course View uses different vocabulary than the Original Course View did for reusing questions:

Question banks can be created manually, copied from another course, or imported from a publisher .zip file. You can also create a Question Pool using questions from other Tests in the same course.

Reuse Individual Questions

When you want to reuse questions from another test or a question bank, and you want students to answer all of those questions, you can use Reuse Questions. If you want to reuse questions from a test in another course, you will need to use course copy first to bring that test into this course.

1. In a test, select the plus sign wherever you want to add a question pool. Select Reuse questions from the menu. The questions you select will be inserted at this point in the assessment (you can rearrange them via drag and drop once they have been added to the test).
2. Use the Filter Criteria panel to select the source(s) that contains the questions you want to reuse or to filter the type of question(s) you want to select.
3. Select individual questions using the checkboxes, or click Select all to select all questions from the chosen source(s) and type(s).
4. Click the Copy Questions button to add the selected questions to your test.
5. Modify the Number of points or use drag and drop to reorder the questions.

You can repeat this process to bring in additional questions.

Create a Question Pool

1. In a test, select the plus sign wherever you want to add a question pool. Select Add question pool from the menu. The question pool is inserted at this point in the assessment.
2. Use the Filter Criteria panel to select the source(s) that contains the questions you want to reuse or the type of question(s) you want to select.
3. Select individual questions using the checkboxes, or click Select all to select all questions from the chose source(s).
4. Click the Add Questions button to add the pool to your test.
5. Modify the Number of questions to display to students to specify how many questions each student is randomly assigned.