Create Question Banks AND POOLS | Ultra

a. Open Question Banks - Manage Banks link from the right-hand menu.

b. Select New Question Bank using the Plus icon.

c. Add a Name and Description and Save.

d. Create a Question using the Plus icon to select the question type.

e. Select from the list of questions types, complete the question and answer then Save.  While in this section, consider the other settings on the question such as the Point value, tagging a keyword, question type category, Metadata etc. All these tools will assist in locating Questions to reuse and find via search.

It is possible to copy over Question Pools from Original modules using the Copy Blackboard Tests using the export / import method. Please be aware that any  unsupported question types will be automatically removed. 

Reusing Question Banks Ultra to Ultra

a. The use the Search box, Filter Criteria and Tags.

b. Use your keyboard to navigate questions:

• Use the Up/Down Arrows to navigate questions
• Use the Right/Left Arrows to expand and collapse questions
• Use the TAB key to navigate source groups
• Select check boxes with the spacebar

c. Once questions are located and selected, use the Copy Questions button.

d. You can freely edit copied questions in your assessment because changes won’t affect other assessments. Each copy is independent, so updates made in one place won’t appear elsewhere. If you want consistent changes across all versions, you’ll need to edit each copy individually.

a. Click on the Create plus icon:

 b. Then choose Test:

c. Click the plus icon in the centre of the page to bring up the menu and choose Add question pool:

d. In the Questions to reuse section select the questions you wish to add..  As you can see, the amount is confirmed by the message '4 questions will be added':

e. On the right-hand side of the screen, click the Add Questions button:

f. In the following screen shot we have highlighted the items we wish to alter: Firstly to change it to 100 points for the essay (see the next point and screen shot for more detail on this) and to display one question only:

g. In the Assessment settings section we can click on the cog (or the individual links) to tailor our essay as we wish.  In this example, we altered the due date and the mark category to Assignment and changed the Marking to Percentage (even though as in the above the only option is to change the point value).

We also changed the default mark posting to deselect the automatic posting of marks.

h. We can rename our test by clicking the pencil icon:

i. The below is the completed essay pool question.  As shown, the message confirms the action that only one question from this pool will be randomly displayed to the student:

j. The next screen shot is of a student view attempt as one of the four essay questions in the pool is displayed:

For more details on Question Pools please see Blackboard's help page here