Question Banks in New Quizzes

“Banks” or “item banks” in New Quizzes are similar to the question banks used for Classic quizzes. Item banks can be used to sort questions and store questions for use in multiple quizzes.

Create an Item Bank

1

Click Item Banks on the Build page of your New Quiz

item banks button


 
2

In the menu that appears, you will see all the item banks you have created in the course

Item banks share many of the same functions as question banks, but you will not see any question banks added to New Quiz Banks.

empty item bank window

 
3

Click + Bank to create a new question bank

new bank

 
4

Enter a distinct name for your item bank, then select Create Bank.

create bank option

 
5

Edit the bank by clicking on the 3 dots

edit bank

 

Add Questions to an Item Bank

1

Navigate to the Build page in your New Quiz

build


 
2

Select the pencil icon to the right of the question you would like to add to an item bank

align to outcomes

 
3

Find and expand the Item Banking dropdown

You may need to scroll down to find this option.

Item banking dropdown highlighted.

 
4

Click Add to Bank

add to bank

 
5

Select the bank destination to which you would like to add the question

pop-up menu showing options of existing item bank or new item bank

 
6

Click Add

add

 
7

Confirm that the item had been banked

Any changes to the question should now be done in the item bank. This ensures that if the item (question) is used in multiple New Quizzes, there won’t be several versions of the same question.

banked item

 
8

Click Done

done


Add an Item Bank to a New Quiz

1

Click Item Banks on the Build page of your New Quiz

item banks button


 
2

Find and select the name of the bank that contains items you would like to add to the quiz

banks

 
3

If you would like to add all items in the bank or a set number of random questions, select + All/Random

For instructions on setting the number and point value of randomized questions, see How do I add all items or a random set from an item bank to an assessment in New Quizzes?

add all/random questions

 
4

Add individual bank items to your quiz by selecting the + symbol in the top left-hand corner of each item

add individual items

 
5

The bank item(s) you select will appear in the quiz

banked items appear on quiz

 
6

Click the X to close the Item Banks window

close banks window


Moving an existing question bank to a New Quiz “item bank”

Currently, existing question banks used for classic quizzes cannot be converted directly to New Quiz “item banks” in the Canvas system. Next to using a QTI package to import items into a bank , the best option is to transfer a classic quiz that does not pull from any question banks to a New Quiz, then to add all migrated quiz questions to an Item Bank.

See how to transfer a classic quiz to a New Quiz.

See above for instructions on how to add questions to an item bank.