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New Feature in Rise 360: Question Banks
Rise 360 just keeps getting better. Today we released a new feature called question banks.
Thanks to question banks, you can now create randomized quizzes in Rise 360 by drawing from a bank of prepared questions. This is especially useful when you want to make sure learners see something different each time they retake a quiz.
With the quiz question bank feature, you can create a set of questions once, and reuse that bank as many times as you want in the same course or even across multiple courses. What a huge timesaver!
You also have the flexibility to use question banks for knowledge check blocks or quizzes—giving you options for how and when you want to check or test a learner’s knowledge.
To create a quiz question bank, click Question Banks and select New Bank.
Give your question bank a name and select Create Question Bank.
From there, create and add questions to the bank just as you would when building a quiz lesson.
And there’s no limit on how many question banks you can create. To help you stay organized, you can organize your question banks into different folders. For example, you could create a folder for each course or topic.
And if you’re an Articulate 360 Teams subscriber, you have even more ways to work together. With question banks, you can easily share question bank folders with other team members to ensure consistency across your organization’s courses. You can even assign different roles to each member—manager, editor, or viewer— depending on the level of access they need.
We think you’re going to love this new Rise 360 quizzing feature and can’t wait to hear what you think!
To the dev team - Congrats on this achievement! I think this is the first online SAAS tool that does question banks. I would like to provide some considerations now that this is underway for future enhancements that would take this to the next level. It would allow many of us to stay inside of Rise instead of having to go to Storyline to do things.
1 - We need the ability to turn off the reveal of correct answers when a learner misses a question.
2 - We need to be able to select random questions and also anchor questions that are required each time.
3 - We need the ability to add audio both for the question and the answers.
4 - We need to be able to have images as answer choices. I know several other tools that have this feature already.
5 - We need to be able to have "sections" for larger quizzes, final exams. Storyline is also missing this feature, but you can simulate it in Storyline with scenes. The idea for bigger exams would be to have the quiz pull from multiple question banks and to be able to present these questions randomly. For example, you have a bank of 20 questions in category 1, 20 questions in category 2, etc. The quiz would then pull 5 random questions from each category and then present these to learner in random order. This would allow you to assess multiple areas in a balanced way.
6 - We need to able to have image matching/sorting.
7 - I would like to be able to add a sorting activity as a question type. Also, it would be nice to have images here also.
Thank you for considering these enhancements.
Anthony, I'd love a little clarification on #5.
- Do you need to have multiple quizzes throughout your course and then have the score aggregated from all of them?
- Or are you looking to use multiple question banks for "sections" of questions within the same quiz? This is possible right now by adding as many draws as you need. However, there is no section headers that learners would see for groups of questions.
Thanks!
Hi, Crystal. The aggregate score feature in Rise has been a much requested feature by many in the forum, so yes, I would like to see this developed. However, the ability to draw from multiple question banks and single questions is what I needed to see in the immediate future. It looks like that is already available based on your video. Thanks for showing me that.
Earlier, I forgot to add the request for a hotspot type question. This would be another much needed option for my development.
Can I recommend something to the dev team pls - can we have the ability to copy questions over from an existing course to a new questions bank. I don't fancy having to replicate "all" my questions again! Thanks.
Hey, Paul! You can do this already. If you go into an existing quiz, click on the three dots and copy it to a question bank. You have to setup the question bank first, but it is super easy. It would be nice to be able to do it in mass instead of having to do one question at a time, but this is a huge time saver.
Sounds good but I don't have that option. I have the ability to copy to another course but no question banks come up on my list. If you could do a quick video I think that may be helpful.
Hey, Paul! Just wanted to pop in and let you know that you can add quiz questions in a course to a question bank. Instructions are here: https://community.articulate.com/series/rise-360/articles/rise-360-use-question-banks-to-create-knowledge-checks-and-quizzes#add-to-qb
Hi Anthony, I don't have the option to "Add a question to a question bank".
I followed the instructions on the link shared here and I don't seem to have this option available - I only see "Delete" and "Duplicate".
Just letting the team know that for new questions, you can't upload images. I have not tried any video, but images are not working inside a question bank.
Hi there - I am trying this for the first time and i am wondering how will this feature interact with LMS. After we publish the course with a quiz that draws from a question back and upload on the LMS, will it keep drawing random questions for different users and same user taking the quiz multiple times or it will draw questions randomly once at the time of publish and it will remain constant post publishing?
Hello, Tanvi; great question! All of the questions will be available for random draws when you upload your course to the LMS.
I am pleased to finally see the Question Bank BETA. However, to be really useful, it needs a question IMPORT capability so people don't have to retype or copy/paste all their questions into the question bank(s) (e.g., use the same file format as Storyline: https://community.articulate.com/articles/articulate-storyline-3-user-guide-how-to-import-questions-from-excel-spreadsheets-and-text-files).
Happy Tuesday, everyone! Quick note: Now you can make quizzes more challenging. Show learners feedback without revealing correct answers! Find out how in this article. Enjoy!
Thanks Crystal for informing us. It seems finally we will be able to start using quizzes in Rise which can save a lot of time. Until now, we wanted to show feedback for bot correct and incorrect answer but when incorrect answer was selected not to show what is the correct one. So great news for the evening in Europe :)
Hi Crystal,
during the first test of new quizzes feedback settings, we noticed an issue with multiple response type of question which was answered partially correct. Overall the response is incorrect and it shows "incorrect feedback" (which we want), however, it reveals as well which of the selected choices was the correct one. Is this a bug in new solution or expected behaviour? I rather see it as a bug :(
Thanks for letting me know.
That is THRILLING!! We've been waiting for this news!! Excellent!!
Hey, Paul! So here are the steps.
1 - Go to an existing course with a quiz and open the quiz.
2 - Select the three dots next to a question. Then, click the option that says COPY TO QUESTION BANK. See image for details.
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Hello, I don't have that option, mine only says Duplicate and Delete. Please help!
Hi G G. To confirm, are you having trouble adding an existing question into a question bank? If you are, can you send a screenshot of what you are seeing? Also, do you already have a question bank created?
Excellent, but not quite what I meant. I also want the same copying ability for 'individual' questions within a course rather than a quiz at the end with lots of questions within it - although I do have some of those too! Many thanks for sharing though.
Hey, Paul! I don't think there is an option to copy a knowledge check question. I tried finding that yesterday without success. This is definitely something that needs to be added. I would like to see Articulate expand on this online storage option, which I think may be in the works now that question banks are here. It would be nice to have a way to have a Media Library where we access all of our assets across our courses, which would include questions from knowledge check questions.
I just noticed that when you select the Knowledge Check block there is a new option to select from a question bank, that's cool :)
