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Create a question bank assignment

Jessica Anne Peper
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When you have finished constructing exercises in your question bank, you can start creating your question bank assignment. 

There are two ways to create your question bank assignment:

  • Create a new question bank assignment. Easily make a selection of exercises by making use of the filters in your question banks. A warning will appear if an exercise from the question bank is added more than once to your assignment to avoid duplicates in your assignment.
  • Generate an assignment with a blueprint. Blueprints can be used to automatically generate a written assignment or a digital test, based on learning objectives. Learning objectives need to be attached to the questions in your question bank. By doing so, you can indicate the amount of questions Ans needs to select for each learning objective.

When the assignment has been created, insights will be given at the question level. 

Create a new 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, 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 in the Question bank-section. 
  4. Click on assignment Question bank assignments in the menu at the top. 
  5. Click on New assignment. 
  6. Fill in the name and click on the dropdown menu to select the Assignment type*. 
  7. Click on Save. 

Once you have created the assignment, you can start to manually add exercises to your assignment. The selection of exercises can be made 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 an exercise from a question bank to an 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 in the Question bank-section. 
  4. By default, the page will open on 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 on Add to assignment.
  8. Select the assignment or fill in the name of 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. 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 exercise.

Generate an assignment with a blueprint

Next to the option of creating a question bank assignment from scratch, you can also generate an assignment by making use of the blueprint feature. You will first need to create your blueprint within the question bank to be able to use this in the generation of your assignment. Once this has been done, you can follow the steps below to generate an assignment in your question bank. 

  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 in the Question bank-section. 
  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 to make use of. 
  8. Click the dropdown menu Assignment type* and choose Fixed questions or Random. 
  9. Check the various options that apply.
  10. Click Generate.

Note: If one of the questions within an exercise is requested by a blueprint, the entire exercise will be set up regardless of what the objectives of the other questions are.

Assignment type

  • Fixed questions
    A question bank assignment generated from the question bank on the basis of specific criteria. This assignment will have a fixed set of questions that all will be presented to the participant. There is still the possibility to manually adjust the randomisation with Flow afterwards. 

  • Random
    A question bank assignment generated on the basis of specific criteria. This assignment will be tied to a parameter within the question bank which allows for the exercises to be placed into 'flow groups' automatically when the assignment is copied to a course. Every participant will get a unique assignment, where Ans remembers which exercises from the question bank were already taken by the participant in a previous assignment. If there's an alternative answer options available (within the same flow group) the participant will get this exercise in their assignment. 

Options for a blueprint:

  • Labels
    Select the required labels that items 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 items for your assignment.

  • Exclude questions of assignments
    Select assignments with items you do not want to use in your new assignment. This prevents items from your previous assignment from appearing again in a resit.

  • Filter on feedback
    Only use items for which feedback has been set for closed questions. This is the feedback from the completely correct, not completely correct and completely incorrect feedback fields. This allows you to create a test where participants can receive feedback on all questions, for instance for formative testing. 

  • Filter on P-value
    After your item has been 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 items are chosen. This allows you to influence the difficulty of exercises for your test. 

  • Filter on category
    For certain question types, you have the option to set how often this question type should occur.

If you are not content with some of the generated exercises, you have the option to remove them from the assignment. You can do so 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 in the Question bank-section. 
  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 in the Question bank assignment-section. 
  6. Select the checkboxes next to the exercises you are not content with. 
  7. Click More and click Remove from assignment.

What’s next
When you have created an assignment, you can add exercises. 

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