Manage exercises

Create a new exercise in your course assignment

After creating an assignment from your course, you can create exercises from within your assignment. To create a new exercise from your course assignment, follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to your course assignment.
2. Click New exercise.
3. Optionally, fill in the time limit (beta) and enable 'Exercise can be viewed once'.
4. Click Save.

You can now add a content block and/or question(s) to your newly created exercise. You can also adjust the order of the exercises and/or questions by dragging them to a different position via the drag_indicator-icon. If you want to use the exercise in multiple assignments, you can either copy the exercise directly from this assignment or you can store it in a question bank. The benefit of the second option is not only are able to reuse the exercise in multiple assignments, but you can track the insights for each exercise over the course of multiple assignments/school years by creating a link. You can also adjust the exercise in one place, for instance, based on the data gathered from the insights, and synchronise it over the different assignments with one click. The exercise shows the date and time when it was last updated.

Add exercises from a question bank to your course assignment 

If you have previously added exercises to your question bank, you can add them to your course assignment.

To add an exercise from a question bank to your course assignment, follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to your course assignment.
2. Click Add exercises.
3. Select or search for exercises you want to add. You can add exercises from course assignments or question banks you have access to.
4. Select the exercises you want to add and click Add.

When an exercise is added from the question bank to a course assignment, there is a link between the exercise in the question bank and the exercise in the assignment. When an exercise within the question bank has been modified, the date and time in 'Last updated' in the exercise will be updated. If the latest version has not yet been synchronised with the assignment, the exercise will have a yellow banner with the warning Outdated version in the course assignment. This works the other way similarly. If you modify the exercise in the course assignment you will also see the warning Latest version. After clicking on this warning, you can choose to retrieve the version from the question bank, or store the version in the course assignment in the question bank. You can read more on the synchronisation of the exercises between course assignments and question banks here. 

View where an exercise was previously used

When adding exercises from a question bank, you can see where an exercise has previously been used in assignments. This helps you avoid accidentally reusing exercises and provides insight into their usage history.

A section appears below the exercise card labelled Previously used in X assignments. This section lists assignments in which the exercise has been used and for which the taking session has already ended. In course assignments, only assignments that ended before the current assignment are included in the list. 

Please note that only assignments are displayed that you have access to. 

Remove an exercise from your assignment

If the assignment has not been taken or forms have not been generated yet, it is possible to remove exercises from an assignment. Follow the steps below to remove an exercise from an assignment.

1. Navigate to your assignment.
2. Navigate to the exercise you want to remove.
3. Click the more_vert -icon.
4. Click Delete.
5. Click Confirm.

Please note that deleting an exercise from an assignment cannot be undone. In case the exercise was added from a question bank, it is possible to re-add the exercise by adding it from the question bank.

Exercises that have been created can be reused in both the same or in other assignments across different courses within. This includes courses within the current school year, but it can also be done for future school years. Reusing exercises can save you time.

To copy an exercise to another assignment, follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to the exercise you want to copy. 
2. Click the more_vert-icon and click Copy. 
3. Click the dropdown menu Assignment* and select the assignment you want to copy the exercise to.
4. If the assignment has sections, click the dropdown menu Section* and select the section you want to add the exercise to. 
5. Click Copy. 

If you would like to limit the amount of time a participant has to answer an exercise, you can set a time limit per exercise. The time per exercise starts from the moment the participant clicks on the exercise. The student will see a warning after the time has expired and any final changes made after the time limit expires, are not saved. 

To set a time limit per exercise, follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to your digital test. 
2. Navigate to the exercise that you want to set a time limit for. 
3. Click the more_vert-icon and click Edit. 
4. Enter the time limit (in seconds) for that exercise.
5. Click Update.