How do I manage item banks in New Quizzes?

You can manage your item banks within any quiz in New Quizzes. Item banks can be shared with other users in your account with a teacher, TA, or admin role. Sharing an item bank allows other users to view, edit, and use the item bank.

You can also open New Quizzes to manage item banks by creating a new quiz.

Open Quizzes

Open Quizzes

In Course Navigation, click the Quizzes link.

Open Quiz

Open Quiz

Click the title of a quiz.

Open New Quizzes

Open New Quizzes

To open New Quizzes from an existing quiz, click the Build button.

Manage Item Banks

Manage Item Banks

Click the Options icon [1] and select the Manage Item Banks option [2].

View Item Banks

View Item Banks

From the Item Banks page, you can view all item banks you have created [1]. Each item bank includes the date it was last updated [2] and the number of questions and stimuli it contains [3].

To create a new item bank, click the Add Bank button [4].

Open Item Bank

Open Item Bank

To open an item bank, click the name of the item bank.

View Items

View Items

View the items in the item bank [1].

To search for an item, enter the search criteria in the Search field [2]. Search results will display items with matching results in question titles, question stems, and answer choices.

To filter search results, click the Add Filters button [3].

View Search Filters

View Search Filters

Search results can be filtered by tags or item type.

To filter results by tags, click the Tags and Metadata field and select a tag [1]. Selected tags will display in the Tags and Metadata field [2]. Tags can be created when editing an item bank item.

To filter results by item type, click the item type options you want to view [3].

Manage Items

Manage Items

To edit an item bank question, click the Edit icon [1]. To move or copy a question to another item bank, click the Copy icon [2]. To delete a question, click the Delete icon [3].

To return to your item bank, click the Item Banks link [4].

View Item Details

View Item Details

To view more details for a question, click the Open icon [1]. The details will include answer choices [2], the date and time the item was last updated [3], and any tags added to the item [4].

To close question details, click the Close icon [5].

Edit Item Bank

Edit Item Bank

To edit an item bank, click the Options icon [1] and select the Edit option [2].

Edit Item Bank Name

Edit Item Bank Name

To change the name of the item bank, enter the name in the Bank Name field [1]. To save the item bank name, click the Save Changes button [2].

Delete Item Bank

Edit Item Bank

To delete an item bank, click the Options icon [1] and select the Delete option [2].

Confirm Deletion

Edit Item Bank Name

View the warning message for deleting item banks [1].

To delete the item bank, click the Delete button [2]. To keep the item bank, click the Cancel button [3].

Notes:

  • Questions added to a quiz individually are not be removed from the quiz when the item bank is deleted. Question groups that use a random number of item bank items are not be available after the item bank is deleted.
  • Once an item bank is deleted, it also loses its statistical link to reports.