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A Question Bank is a simple, named list of questions that are grouped together for easier organization. Quiz authors often build quizzes by using only a portion of the questions in a Question Bank. Question Banks can also contain other information about the bank such as author, web site, copyright information, etc.

For example, you might create a question bank called Greek Mythology which contains a number of questions related to Greek Mythology. Then, you could create a quiz using a portion of the questions from this question bank, such as those dealing with children of the gods.

Creating A Question Bank

Creating a Question Bank is very similar to creating a Quiz except that Question Banks don't have sections, just questions.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: When you make changes to a question bank, the changes do not take effect until you save the question bank. To save changes, type Ctrl-S or select File>Save from the menu at the top of the window.

To create a Question Bank:

• Expand the Question Bank item in the Quiz Extreme navigator located at the left side of the window.
• Using the Question Bank toolbar, click on the New Question Bank button ().
• The Question Bank editor will open in the edit area.
• There are two ways to add questions. One way is to use the "Add Question" button on the Quizzes toolbar () which allows you to enter one question at a time. This method is slower, but gives you complete access to all of the advanced features of questions. The other method is to click the "Quick Entry" button () which will bring up the Quick Question Entry dialog that allows you to quickly enter standard questions that include basic text in the question and answers as well as recorded audio clips (used for building spelling or foreign language quizzes). You will likely use the Quick Entry method most of the time. See Questions for complete details.
• Specify the necessary information for the question such as the type of question, question text, answer(s), audio, video, image, etc. You can also record an audio clip directly into a question using your computer's microphone to create spelling or foreign language tests, quickly and easily. See Questions for more information.
• NOTE: Multiple-choice questions can contain text for each possible answer or they can also contain an image. Again, see Questions for more information.
• If using the Quick Question Entry dialog, you can use the TAB key to switch between items without using the mouse. Further, once you have completed a question, you can press the ENTER key to quickly jump to a new question, again, without using the mouse.

DON'T FORGET: When you make changes to a question bank, the changes do not take effect until you save the question bank. To save changes, type Ctrl-S or select File>Save from the menu at the top of the window.

Using Questions From A Question Bank

To use questions from a question bank:

• Create a new quiz or open an existing one for editing.
• Select the section to add the question or questions to.
• Click the Question Archive button () to open the Question Archive dialog.
• Specify any filter criteria (i.e. select the Question Bank from the Question Bank drop down list and any keywords).
• Click the Filter button.
• Put a check in each box next to each question you want to include, or click the "Select Random" link to have it randomly select a specified number of questions from the list.
• Click OK.