Use Question Banks & Question Pools in Learn Ultra

Question Banks are a collection of questions stored for repeated use across assessments. Question Pools ensure each student receives a different version of the assessment.

When you select questions from a bank and add them to an assessment, copies of the questions are created and added to the assessment. You can edit the copies in your assessment without affecting other assessments. Changes you make to one instance of the question or content aren't reflected in the other instances. If you want changes to show in all instances, you must find and edit each copied instance.

As the file imports, you can view the supported question types. You'll receive a success message when the file imports successfully. You'll also receive a message if the file or some question types weren't uploaded.

The most recently imported bank appears first on the list. An exclamation icon appears in banks where one or more unsupported questions were removed.

These supported question types appear in a question bank after import:

Unsupported question types are removed. If your file has no supported question types, the question bank isn't added to your course.

From the Details & Actions menu, select Manage banks under Question Banks to do the following:

You can reuse questions and other content from all existing tests, assignments, and question banks.

Use sorting controls to easily navigate question banks. You can sort question banks by name, number of questions in a bank, or by date the bank was last edited.

You can add descriptions to question banks to keep track of the topics or goals your questions cover.

The search bar allows you to easily locate a specific question bank in a course. You can search by name or description.

Reusing assessment questions across courses can save time.  You can copy question banks from Original and Ultra courses.

Copied banks appear in the Question Banks area. Select Manage banks in the Details & Actions panel  to review all question banks in the course.

Other messages may appear:

When you delete a question bank, it is permanently removed from your course. If you copied questions from the bank into one or more assessments, those questions remain in your assessments after you delete the bank.

In an assessment, 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.

On the Add Question Pool page, select the assessments, question banks, and question types you want to browse.

The Filter Criteria panel is open by default and all questions appear in the active filter area on the right. The active filter area changes automatically as you select or clear criteria. You can expand and collapse sections. On small devices, the Filter Criteria panel is closed by default.

The information at the top of the panel shows how many total items appear to choose from. If you make selections in the Filter Criteria panel, the number appears above the panel next to Filter. Select the X to collapse the panel and increase the area to view questions. Select Filter to open the panel.

In the Filter Criteria panel, you can perform a basic search by keyword. After you type one keyword, another field appears. Each applicable keyword may increase the number of results. Results include singular and plural forms of a word and tenses such as -ing and -ed. Partial word and contains logic won't work with this basic search.

On the Add Question Pool page, you can expand questions to view them.

If you make selections in the Filter Criteria panel, the number appears above the panel next to Filter. In the active filter area on the right, select the checkboxes for the questions you want to add. You can view how many items you've selected at the bottom of the screen.

Select Clear all to clear the check boxes in the Sources section. If you already chose some questions to add, those items are still ready to add. In the active filter area, clear the check boxes for the questions you no longer want to copy. You can also use Select all and Clear all to choose all and remove all questions.

You can't edit the questions or the points on the Add Question Pool page. Questions with goal alignments appear with trophy icons next to the points. Goal alignments are added with the questions.

Select Add Questions. The question pool appears in your assessment. Type the points and the number of questions to display to students. The points are assigned to each question in the pool. You can't assign separate points for individual questions in the same pool.

Select Save to add the question pool to your assessment.

You can edit the points assigned to each question in the pool even after submissions exist and trigger regrading.

Important edit points scenario:

For example, you grade an Essay question in a pool that's worth 10 points and post the grades for several students. You decide to change the points for each question in the pool to 5. If you previously assigned more than 5 points for some students' Essay questions, those points still apply. You can individually edit each student's points for the Essay question.

Before students open an assessment, you can add, remove, and edit individual questions in a question pool. When you remove a question in a pool, the question isn't deleted from your course. You can also delete a pool or move a pool to a new location in the assessment.

To view questions in the pool, select View questions. On the Question Pool page, the number of questions in the pool is listed in the top-left area. The source assessment for each question in the pool is listed.

When you select Edit/Regrade, a notification appears that states how many other assessments are affected. If you edit a question in a question pool, the edits appear everywhere the question is used. The same is true for edits you make in a source assessment's questions. Those edits affect all the question pools where the question appears.

After students open an assessment or make submissions, you can't add or remove questions from a pool or delete a pool from an assessment. You also can't move the pool to a new location in the assessment. You can edit, regrade, and give full credit for questions when submissions exist. For example, if you change the correct answer, the question is regraded in all assessments where the question is used.

Give full credit option

You can give everyone full credit for a question you didn't explain clearly or doesn't accurately reflect your lecture or textbook material.

You can give full credit for a question from the View questions link in a pool or from a student's submission page. If you apply full credit for a question in a source assessment or in a question pool, full credit is applied to that question everywhere it appears.

After you select Edit/Regrade in a question's menu, you can select the check box for Give full credit for question. After you give full credit, you can clear the check box to revert to the automatic grade or a previously assigned manual grade.

Your update affects existing attempts, attempts in progress, and subsequent submissions. Student grades are updated, but the new grades or reversal may not appear immediately.

When you give full credit, you can’t change student scores for an individual question. You can override each student’s assessment score to adjust the points.

More on editing assessments and questions

More on overriding grades

Student view of full credit

After grading is completed and you show students the correct answers, they can see which questions you've awarded full credit. Full credit given appears next to the grade pill and is also noted in the answers section.

You can’t delete the source assessments for question pools from these areas:

You also can't delete these items: