Create a question bank assignment

You have the possibility to create a new question bank assignment from within your question bank and manually add the exercises to this assignment. 

To create a new question bank assignment, follow the steps below.

1. Click domain School name in the menu on the left.
2. Click folder Question banks in the menu at the top.
3. Click on your question bank or use the search bar. 
4. Click assignment Question bank assignments in the menu at the top. 
5. Click New assignment.
6. Fill in the name and click on the dropdown menu to select the Assignment type. 
7. Click Save. 

Once you have created the assignment, you can start to manually add exercises to your assignment. Selecting your exercises can be done more easily by making use of the filters in your question bank. This way you can select the specific exercises you want to be added to your assignment based on your preferences. At a later stage, you will also have the option to randomise the exercises you have added to your question bank assignment once the assignment is copied to a course, by making use of flow. 

To add exercises from a question bank to an assignment using filters, follow the steps below.

1. Click domain School name in the menu on the left.
2. Click folder Question banks in the menu at the top.
3. Click on your question bank or use the search bar. 
4. Click the extension Exercises tab.
5. Adjust the filters to your specific requirements. 
6. Check the box of the exercises you want to add to your assignment.
7. Click on the dropdown menu More above the list of exercises and click Add to assignment.
8. Select your assignment or create a new assignment.
9. Click Confirm. 

When selecting the exercises, you will have the option to bulk select all the exercises that are still visible after adjusting the filters by clicking the checkbox at the top. This allows you to quickly add all the exercises to the question bank assignment in one go. The order that the exercises are added to your question bank assignment, is based on the creation date of the exercises. This order can later be adjusted in your course assignment.

Next to creating a question bank assignment from scratch, you can also generate an assignment by using a blueprint. You will first need to create your blueprint within the question bank to be able to generate your assignment. The question bank assignment is generated on the basis of specific criteria in your blueprint. Once a blueprint has been created, you can follow the steps below to generate a question bank assignment. 

1. Click domain School name in the menu on the left.
2. Click folder Question banks in the menu at the top.
3. Click on your question bank or use the search bar.
4. Click on assignment Question bank assignments in the menu at the top. 
5. Click on Generate.
6. Fill in a name for the new assignment.  
7. Click the dropdown menu Blueprint and select the blueprint you want use.
8. Click the dropdown menu Exercise selection and choose Fixed or Randomised per participant. 
9. Check the various options that apply (see blueprint options).
10. Click Generate.

Please note that if one of the questions within an exercise fits the requirements of your blueprint, the entire exercise will be included regardless of what the objectives of the other questions within the exercise are.

Exercise selection

• Fixed 
  This assignment will have a fixed set of exercises which will be identical for all participants. There is still the possibility to manually adjust the order of exercises using flow settings in your course assignment afterwards.
  
  
• Randomised per participant
  This assignment will have a mixed set of exercises which will be different for each participant. The exercises are placed into flow groups when the assignment is copied to a course. Every participant will get a unique assignment based on the blueprint parameters. Ans remembers which exercises from the question bank have been included in previous assignments of specific participants. If there are alternative exercises available (within the same flow group), these previous exercises will be excluded from their assignment.

Blueprint options

• Labels
  Select the labels that exercises must have in order to be added to your assignment. For example, you can exclude items with the label status "draft" from the selection of exercises for your assignment.
  
  
• Exclude exercises from assignments
  Select assignments with exercises you do not want to use in your new assignment. This prevents exercises from your previous assignment from appearing again in a resit.
  
  
• Filter on feedback
  Only use exercises in which feedback has been included for closed questions. This is the feedback in the answered correctly, answered partially correctly, answered incorrectly feedback fields. This allows you to create an assignment in which participants can receive feedback on all questions, for instance for formative testing.
  
  
• Filter on P-value
  If your exercise was used in previous assignments, a P-value is calculated. The p-value is the percentage of students that correctly answered the question. The higher the value, the easier the question. You have the option to set a P-value range from which exercises are chosen. This allows you to influence the difficulty of exercises for your assignment. 
  
  
• Filter on question type
  For certain question types, you have the option to set how often this question type should occur.

If you are dissatisfied with some of the exercises included in the generated assignment, you always have the option to remove them. You can remove exercises by following the steps below. 

1. Click domain School name in the menu on the left.
2. Click folder Question banks in the menu at the top.
3. Click on your question bank or use the search bar. 
4. Click on assignment Question bank assignments in the menu at the top. 
5. Click on your question bank assignment or use the search bar.
6. Select the checkboxes next to the exercises you want to remove. 
7. Click More and click Remove from assignment.

If you use a blueprint, Ans will select the questions from the question bank. This can be done either at random or fixed, depending on the way of generation which you've selected. More information on this can be found above. As you might've read in the Manage blueprints article, you need to define the number of questions that will be selected with a certain objective. However, it might be possible that an exercise contains questions with different objectives. In this part of the article, you can read more information how Ans deals with these kind of situations. We will use a simple example to explain how Ans selects questions. In our example, we have the following exercises, questions and objectives:

Exercise	Question - Objective
1	Question 1a - Objective A Question 1b - Objective A
2	Question 2a - Objective A Question 2b - Objective B
3	Question 3a - Objective A

In the table above you can see that there are 4 questions with objective A connected, and 1 question with objective B connected. However, the 4 questions with objective A connected are spread over 3 different exercises. We will use a simple example where the blueprint has will select:

• 2 questions with objective A
• 1 question with objective B

While generating, Ans will go through the list of possible questions that can be selected. In this case, 2 questions need to be selected. An important point of attention to take into account is that Ans checks the questions for generating the assignment, however the whole exercise will be selected. Therefore, the following process is executed in the background:

1. First possible question with objective A: question 1a. Exercise 1 is added to the assignment.
2. Second possible question with objective A from the remaining exercises: question 2a. Exercise 2 is added to the assignment.
3. The blueprint is completed for the part of objective A.
4. Ans will then check the first possible question with objective B from the remaining exercises. As there are no exercises with objective B remaining (exercise 3 only has one question with objective A), Ans will start looking for objective B in the exercises that were already selected.
5. First possible question with objective B: question 2b. As exercise 2 was already selected, Ans will remove this exercise from the selection of objective A and will add exercise 2 again for objective B.
6. The blueprint is completed for the part of objective B. However, because exercise 2 was removed from the selection for objective A, Ans will start searching for questions with objective A again, first for the questions that have not been selected. The first possible questions with objective A: question 3. Exercise 3 is added to the assignment. The result of the selection of this blueprint:
   • 2 questions with objective A selected from questions in exercise 1 and 3.
   • 1 question with objective B selected from question 2.
   • The assignment will consist of 5 questions in total, as subquestions are used.