Overview

Item banks are organised repositories of quiz questions that can be used across multiple quizzes or even multiple courses. In this guide, we'll show you how to set them up and use them in your quizzes. The use of item banks is optional.

Coming from UniSA learnonline?

In AU Canvas, an item bank is the equivalent of a learnonline category and the item banks index is the equivalent of the learnonline Question bank.

The item banks index

The item banks index is where you'll create and manage your item banks, though note you can also create item banks while building a quiz or by migrating Classic Quizzes question banks. To access the item banks index, select Item Banks [1] from the course navigation menu (if you don't see it, you'll need to enable it).

How to create an item bank and add questions to it

We recommend creating your item banks from the item banks index, then linking your item bank questions to quizzes when you're done. We'll cover the first step of setting up item banks in the presentation below.

Select the expand button to open in full-screen or open in a new tab if not loading. Follow the navigational cues in the presentation to move between pages.

How to draw questions from an item bank into a quiz

After creating an item bank, you'll want to link it to a quiz to draw questions from it. We'll show you how in the presentation below.

Select the expand button to open in full-screen or open in a new tab if not loading. Follow the navigational cues in the presentation to move between pages.

Editing, sharing and managing existing item banks

For further support editing, sharing and managing item banks you've already created, please refer to Canvas's resources on editing, sharing and managing item banks, editing and tagging item bank questions, and moving item bank questions between banks.

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