Creating Question Sets

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1.Select the Build tab.

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2. Select the Assessments tool. 3. From the Assessments screen, select the assessment in which you want to include randomized questions.

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The following steps enable you to select questions that will become a question set. Then you’ll indicate how many of the questions should be randomly selected for each assessment (e.g. the set contains 10 questions and only 5 are selected randomly each time the assessment is given to a student).

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4. Select the Add to Assessment button. 5. From the button options, select Question Set.

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In the Show area (top right), select the Question View button to see all questions in the Question Database. Or if the questions you want to add to a set are already visible you can stay in Category View.

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7. If you selected Question View, you may see multiple pages of questions and need to change the Page option at bottom right to All and click the Go icon. This reveals all the questions in the database at once.

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If you prefer to view only questions within a certain category, select the Category View button in the Show area and then expand the category (select the + in front of the category name).

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8. With the desired list of questions visible, select the check boxes that precede all the questions you want included in the set. The questions for a randomized assessment will be drawn from the selected questions that comprise this question set. 9. Select the Add Selected button at bottom left.

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Questions that are already part of an assessment cannot be chosen when adding the set but they can be moved into the set once the set is created.

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After you “Add Selected”, You’ll find a Question Set added to your assessment. The questions within it will be indented. Connector lines indicate each question’s inclusion in the set.

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Notice the Select drop-down list box that appears in the column following the set title. 10. Select the number of questions from the set that you want randomly delivered.

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Following the Select drop-down list is a text box where you type the number of points to be awarded for a correct answer. 11. Type the number of available points for each question in the text box.

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You’ll find the multiplication symbol (x) between the Select drop down list and the Points text box, indicating the total points available for the set will be the number of questions delivered times the points you assign for each question. As an example: 5 questions delivered times (x) 2 points each equals 10 points possible for the set (5 x 2 = 10).

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After setting the number of questions to deliver from the set and establishing the number of points, you’ll need to select the Update Total button at the bottom of the set to generate a new total for the quiz.

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There’s yet another way to generate a question set. This process works if you have a question already in an assessment but want to select alternatives for that question in the assessment. The alternative questions do not need to be comparable or on the same topic; this process simply takes an existing question in an assessment, adds it to a new set you’ll define, and lets you select other questions to be included in the new question set.

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13. Open an assessment from the Assessments screen.

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14. Select the check box for the question that you want added to the set.

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15. Select the Add Question Alternates button along the bottom and the Question Database screen appears.

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By default, you’ll see that the Category View is visible. Each entry in the table under the Title column is a different category of questions.

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16. Select the + icon in front of the category name that you want to expand and you’ll see all the questions in that category.

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17. With all the questions listed, select the check box that precedes any question that you’d like to add to the set.

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18. Select the Add Selected button at the bottom of the screen.

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Now you have a new set that includes one question that was already in the assessment and one or more new additions.

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Question sets make it possible for you to have assessments that include randomly generated questions. Now you know two ways to create a question set to use in your quizzes, self tests and surveys.