Manage exercises

An exercise is a part of an assignment, in which you explain what you expect from a student. Exercises can either be created and/or added from a question bank or created from within a course assignment. 

When creating a new exercise you will first need to give the exercise a name.  After the exercise is named, a description and questions can be added. 

• Description
  A description can be added to your exercise to explain the objective or give more background information about the question(s) you are adding to your exercise. A description can come in the form of audio, code, text, image and video. Adding a description to your exercise is recommended but not required. Read more about the description types here.
  
  
• Questions
  After creating an exercise, you can add one or multiple questions to it. Each question type has its own specific properties. A question is part of an exercise which is used to acquire an answer from the student. Different question types can be used within the same exercise. You can find an overview of possible question types here.
   
  Adding and creating 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. Click domain School name in the menu on the left.
  2. Click label_important Courses in the menu at the top.
  3. Select your course or use the search bar.
  4. Select your assignment or use the search bar.
  5. Click New exercise.
  6. Optionally, fill in the time limit (beta) and enable 'Exercise can be viewed once'.
  7. Click Save.

  You can now add a description and/or question(s) to your newly created exercise. 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. 

  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. Click domain School name in the menu on the left.
  2. Click label_important Courses in the menu at the top.
  3. Select your course or use the search bar.
  4. Select your assignment or use the search bar.
  5. Click Add exercises.
  6. Click the question bank that contains the exercises you want to add and click Next.
  7. 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 a question within the question bank has been modified or updated and the latest version has not yet been copied over to the assignment, you will see the warning New version available. This works the other way around as well. If you modify or update the exercise in the assignment you will also see the New version available warning. After clicking on this warning, you can choose to Get version from question bank or Send version to question bank.
  
  You can read more on the synchronisation of the exercises between courses and question banks here. 

  Unlink an exercise from a question bank 

  After adding exercises from your question bank to your course assignment, you may want to unlink the exercise from your question bank.

  To unlink an exercise from your question bank, follow the steps below.

  1. Navigate to the exercise you want to unlink. 
  2. Click the more_horiz-icon and click Unlink from question bank. 
  3. Click Confirm. The exercise is now unlinked.
  Copy an exercise

  Exercises that have been created can be reused in both the same or in other assignments in your course. 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_horiz-icon and click Copy. 
  3. Click the dropdown menu Assignment and select the assignment you want to copy the exercise to.
  4. Click Save. 
  Set a time limit for an exercise

  error_outline This option is available through beta features, read more about beta features here.

  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. Go to the exercise that you want to set a time limit for. 
  3. Click the more_horiz-icon and click Edit. 
  4. Enter the time limit (in seconds) for that exercise.
  5. Click Save.