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Create a Question Bank Category

  • Lecturer Guides, Quizzes
  • January 5, 2024

Before you start creating questions, it is good practice to create categories for your questions.

Question categories provide a way or organising your questions. You can use categories to organise your question by topic, by score awarded, by difficulty level, by quiz or by another mechanism that helps you to organise your Question bank.

Questions are stored in these categories in a similar way as your files are stored within folders.

The hierarchy feature enables you to separate categories into sub categories and sub categories into sub sub categories. Categories and sub categories, are very powerful when combined with random questions that can select either from one category or from a category and any of its sub categories.

If you don’t want to use the “Default for [name of your course]” category, you can delete it after you create at least one other top level category. Make subcategories by choosing Parent categories for the new category you are creating.

Part 1

Access Question Bank

There are two ways to access the Question bank.

If you are within your module, you can select More, and then select Question bank from the drop-down menu.

Whereas if you are within the Quiz itself, the Question bank is available from the contextual navigation menu.

Part 2

Create Category

Each category must have a name and you can include a short description of the category.