How to Use the Quiz Question Bank

Table of Contents: 

1. Overview
2. Setup Your Question Bank
3. How to Retrieve Questions From Your Question Bank (for a Quiz)

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Overview

In PlutoLMS, the question bank is a powerful feature that allows educators to create, store, and manage a collection of questions for use in quizzes, exams, and other assessments.

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The question bank serves as a centralised repository where you can create, organise, and categorise different types of questions, making it easier to reuse them across multiple courses or assessments.

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Overall, Pluto's question bank is a comprehensive tool that empowers educators to create and manage a diverse range of assessment questions efficiently. It enhances the flexibility, reusability, and organisation of questions, thereby streamlining the assessment process within LMS-based courses.

Setup Your Question Bank

Step 1: Create applicable categories (if you want to customise them).

Note: A category is automatically created within a course when questions are created. For example, if the Course name is "Sample Course," then the category name would be "Default for Sample Course," and all Questions in this course would automatically be moved to this category.

Step 1.1: Go to your course.

Step 1.2: Click on Course admin in the left-hand menu.

Step 1.3: Under "Course administration," select the "Question Bank" link.

Step 1.4: Now you can navigate to the "Categories" tab in the top menu bar.

Step 1.5: Scroll down until you see "Add category," where you will create a new category.

Step 1.6: Choose your parent category, which will be the MAIN category under which this category will fall.

Step 1.7: Name the category.

Step 1.8: Give your category a description (optional).

Step 1.9: Add a category ID, which helps if there are errors. You can use the category ID to see where the error may occur.

Step 1.10: Click on "Add category."

Step 2: Add questions to the category.

Step 2.1: Click on the newly created category name.

Step 2.2: Click on "Create a new question."

Step 2.3: Choose your Question type and "add" it.

Step 2.4: You will see the questions that you have added in the category you created.

How to Retrieve Questions From Your Question Bank (for a Quiz)

Step 1: Create a quiz.

Step 2: Click on "Edit quiz."

Step 3: Click on "Add" on the right-hand side.

Step 4: Select "From Question Bank."

Step 5: Select the category in which you created the questions.

Step 6: Tick all the questions that you want to add to the quiz.

Step 7: Select "Add selected questions to the quiz."

Step 8: Disable "edit mode" on the course and view your quiz from a student's perspective.

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Now that you created a category and know how to access the question bank, you can use this question bank throughout the rest of your LMS.

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Note: You also have the ability to edit categories and move questions from one category to another.

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If the Question Bank tool is not available on your LMS, please contact support@plutolms.com to enable this for you.

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Use Case Example:

Imagine you're an instructor teaching an online course on mathematics. Throughout the semester, you plan to assess your students' understanding of different math concepts using quizzes and exams. Here's how the question bank can support your teaching and assessment process:

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Creating and Organising Questions. You start by creating a question bank in your LMS specifically for your mathematics course. You categorise the question bank into sections based on different topics such as algebra, geometry, and calculus. Within each section, you further organise questions into subcategories like basic concepts, problem-solving, and application-based questions.