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Adding Questions Written by another Instructor to my Exam

Alanah Manning -

It is possible to add questions written by other instructors within your school to your exams without having to import an entire exam into your account.  

A.  Adding Another Instructor's Questions Using Text, Keyword, or ID

B.  Adding Another Instructor's Questions Using the Curriculum

 

To be able to add instructor-created questions to your exam: 

  • The question(s) must be for the same provider level as your exam. 
  • The question(s) need to be active. 
  • Both instructors must be a part of the same school. 

 

A.  Adding Another Instructor's Questions Using Text, Keyword, or ID: 

1.  Start by creating or editing an exam.

  • If you are adding the questions to an exam that has already been finalized, you will need to click the red button to re-enable test editing on the Test Questions tab.2_22_re-enable.png
  • Note: If the re-enable test editing button is not available, it could be a couple of things:
    • Exams already taken by students or instructors in their student accounts cannot be edited.  
    • If you edit an exam that has not been taken by students yet but cannot edit the exam, the exam is likely added to a class.  Remove it from the class. 

2.  Select the Question Criteria tab. 

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3. Select the tab Pull Questions By Text, Keyword, or ID. 

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4.  Click the dropdown for the Question Bank and select My Schools Questions.
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5.  In the Search By dropdown, select if you are going to search by text, keyword, or ID. 

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6.  Under Search, type the word, phrase, or ID.

Note: There cannot be any extra spaces after the keyword.  The system will recognize that extra space as an additional character requirement for the keyword/text/id.  If your criteria search comes up with no results, try again and make sure there are no invisible spaces before or after the keyword. 

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7.  Click Save Criteria.  This will bring any questions that fit the criteria that you have added to your exam. 

 

 

 

B.  Adding Another Instructor's Questions Using the Curriculum

1.  Start by creating or editing an exam.

  • If you are adding the questions to an exam that has already been finalized, you will need to click the red button to re-enable test editing on the Test Questions tab.2_22_re-enable.png
  • Note: If the re-enable test editing button is not available, it could be a couple of things:
    • Exams already taken by students or instructors in their student accounts cannot be edited.  
    • If you edit an exam that has not been taken by students yet but cannot edit the exam, the exam is likely added to a class.  Remove it from the class. 

2.  Select the Question Criteria tab. 

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3. Select the tab Pull Questions By Curriculum. 

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4.  Click the dropdown for the Question Bank and select My Schools Questions.

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5.  In the Curriculum dropdown, select the curriculum the questions are under.

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6.  Next select the module and/or topics within the curriculum that you would like to search.  

Note: Selecting a module will select all the topics in that module. 

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7.  Click Save Criteria. This will bring any questions that fit the criteria that you have added to your exam. 

 

 

For more information on creating exams click here. 

For information on creating your own questions click here. 

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