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How to Add a Question Pool Item

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Question pool items allow the course editor to identify questions to be randomly selected from the course Question Bank Manager or from an associated Learning Object Repository. The selection of questions can be filtered based on search term, keyword, question type and difficulty. Question selection can also be filtered based on question bank folder/category as well as by the course objective or standard mapped to each question.
To add a question pool item, do the following:

  1. Log into your ANGEL course and click the Lessons tab.
  2. Navigate to the assessment.
  3. Click the Add Question hyperlink.
  4. Click the Question Pool Item hyperlink.

  1. Complete the following fields:

Field Name

Description

Question title

Specify a title for the question pool (optional).

Number of questions

Specify the number of questions the question pool should display for each user.

Question pool points

Specify the total point value for the question pool (regardless of the number of questions delivered).

Limit results by keyword

Click the Choose keywords link to limit search results to only those questions that match selected keywords. Select the Match ANY keyword option to return questions that match any of the selected keywords. Select the Match ALL keywords option to return only those questions that match all selected keywords.

To select keywords:

  1. Select the course you wish to search and click Select. Keywords for the selected course appear in the Select from list field.
  2. Select one or more of the keywords (Hold the CTRL key to select multiple keywords) and click Add Selected.
  3. Click Save.

Choose Question Bank filters

Search

Specify a search term or phrase in the Search text field.

Limit by question type

Deselect one or more question types to exclude those question types from the search results

Limit by difficulty level

Deselect one or more difficulty settings to filter search results based on the difficulty levels specified.

Choose standards filters

Click the Choose standards link and select one or more standards to limit search results to only those questions that match the selected standards.

Choose objectives filters

Click the Choose objectives link and select one or more objectives to limit search results to only those questions that match the selected objectives.

  1. Click the Search button.
  2. Select the check box next to each question you want to be included in the question pool.

Select a greater number of questions than specified under the Number of questions text field. This will ensure users are presented with the specified number of questions randomly selected from the larger pool of selected questions.

    • Click the Save button.


     

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