New Feature in Rise 360: Question Banks

Apr 05, 2022

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!

144 Replies

Samantha Kiln

2 years ago04/13/22 at 8:36 am (UTC)

Thank you - this new feature is the answer to my prayers as I'm creating my first course in Rise on Food Safety and want to have a question bank for the summative assessment (as we currently do in Storyline) with a large number of questions pulled randomly for users to answer.

One quick observation this morning as I build my quiz using these new features; are there any plans to have a drag and drop option? If not, would it be possible to add a feature where you can build a drag and drop in Storyline and have an import function like you can in a Rise course interactive block?

2 years ago04/14/22 at 8:23 am (UTC)

Hi, I confirm the behaviour as Knowledgefront Digital Learning mentioned: if you turn of the Reveal Answers option, it doesn't show any feedback which is connected to the question and when you submit an answer, then you go directly to next question.

What are we waiting for is the feedback and revealing correct answers is not connected.

Donald Kerns

2 years ago04/19/22 at 1:20 pm (UTC)

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).

Alis Nikolson

2 years ago04/19/22 at 8:51 pm (UTC)

If a question is added from the bank into a quiz that Developer #1 is working on, and another Developer (#2) edits the question in the bank later to include that question which they changed in their quiz, does it affect the import of Developer #1's question? Rather, is the question imported and the connection with the bank broken at that point, or does it retain connectivity with the bank until it is published?

CLC Training

2 years ago04/20/22 at 1:49 am (UTC)

I would prefer to add a question to the question bank from a lesson. This is usually where I determine the need for a new question - and create it here. It would save me time to add my new question to the bank here and then create the Quiz and use the bank. Looking forward to this update.

2 years ago04/20/22 at 8:09 am (UTC)

I am having the feeling that the question bank can simply not be included into the course in case the questions contain pictures. At least I cannot upload the question bank - it does not stop loading...

2 years ago04/21/22 at 3:57 pm (UTC)

Hi Stefanie,

I have had no problems using images in question banks.

Karl Muller

2 years ago04/21/22 at 4:23 pm (UTC)

Hi,

I've found an unexpected issue.

Scenario:

Created a Question Bank
Created a Quiz that draws 4 random questions from a question bank of 5 questions.
Previewed the Quiz, and everything worked fine.
Returned to the Question Bank and edited the questions, e.g. added an image to each question.
Previewed the Quiz again (same quiz used in step 2-3). The quiz questions did not reflect the changes made to the question bank.
I had to Edit the Question Draw for the edited questions to appear in the quiz.

Based on this test, it seems the Question Bank questions are not drawn from the question bank dynamically. Rather the questions are copied from the Question Bank into the Course where the Quiz is located.

Has anyone else experienced the same issues?

Alyssa Gomez
Staff

almost 2 years ago04/25/22 at 8:54 pm (UTC)

Hi there, Karl. Thanks so much for bringing this up!

If the source question bank is modified, those changes aren't reflected until you edit the draw. Click Edit, then click Update Draw, and the images that you added to the questions in the bank should appear.

almost 2 years ago04/26/22 at 8:28 am (UTC)

Hi - I am having the same problem with the pictures like Anthony. I also do not get the possibility to choose e.g. 6 random question out of 20. It is either all random or specific questions. Am I doing something wrong?

Regards

Steffi

almost 2 years ago04/26/22 at 3:10 pm (UTC)

Hi Steffi,

I have no problems adding images, so not sure why you are having issues.

This is the page I see that gives you the option to choose the number of random questions.

Kenn Eglauer

almost 2 years ago04/26/22 at 8:35 pm (UTC)

This seems like a great feature. I am having trouble setting the number of questions for the draw though. I am just experimenting with a 10 question quiz and so far I can only set it to draw one question randomly. It seems that I do not have the next drop down under Random questions as shown in the article. I have attached a screenshot.

Is there a second setting that I need to enable?

Thanks for the help.

Kenn

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almost 2 years ago04/26/22 at 8:47 pm (UTC)

Hi Kenn,

For some reason you are missing the number of questions drop-down as shown in my image above.

It should automatically appear; there is nothing you should do to make it appear.

Alyssa Gomez
Staff

almost 2 years ago04/26/22 at 10:10 pm (UTC)

Hi Kenn! Thank you for including that screenshot. Did you make any changes to the question bank itself after inserting it in your quiz?

Also, do you see the number of questions drop-down if you insert a new draw from that question bank?

almost 2 years ago04/27/22 at 12:18 am (UTC)

Initially no changes to the question bank. I had 3 questions and tried the draw. No drop down. I made 7 more in the hopes that the draw just required more questions to choose from. Subsequently, I just tried inserting the draw again (after deleting the first block) and there still is no drop down to indicate the number of questions.

I assume that I can insert questions one at a time but it seems that Articulate did not intend for the quiz draw to be this way. I also feel like the quiz will not behave properly and even if the learner gets the wrong answer they can move on. I am hoping that the quiz will need a certain pass mark before it will submit the results to an LMS.

Any other help is appreciated.

Thanks

Kenn

Matthias Steinbeck

almost 2 years ago04/27/22 at 7:58 am (UTC)

Hello,

could there be an issue with randomly drawing questions with type "Matching"?
I've a bank with 17 questions of different types.

Just setting e.g. 5 randomly drawn does not work.
Excluding type "Matching" runs smoothly through the remaining questions.

almost 2 years ago04/27/22 at 1:44 pm (UTC)

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

Michelle Manbeck

almost 2 years ago04/27/22 at 3:27 pm (UTC)

Curious as to why question banks don't work when exported to Rise.com. Is this currently on the roadmap?

Also, I see that there is no limit to the number of question banks you can have, but are there limits to the number of questions within a question bank?

Is there a limit to the number of questions in a quiz in Rise 360 - Newbie here :)

almost 2 years ago05/02/22 at 3:16 pm (UTC)

Thank you very much, when we insert a draw- from question bank we can choose only one folder to choose questions, can we combine 3 folders for one quiz please ?

almost 2 years ago05/02/22 at 3:20 pm (UTC)

i dont have the option number of questions in draw ?

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almost 2 years ago05/03/22 at 7:47 am (UTC)

Hi there, Michelle. Welcome to the world of Articulate!

Question Banks are still in development for Rise.com, which is why you can't export courses that contain them from Rise 360. We'll let you know as soon as we hear any updates from our development team.

We also don't impose a maximum limit on the number of questions - with or without using Question Banks.

I hope this information helps!

Knowledgefront Digital Learning

almost 2 years ago05/03/22 at 10:50 am (UTC)

HI - are there plans to enable bulk import of questions from a text file like you can in Storyline?

Thanks

almost 2 years ago05/04/22 at 9:40 am (UTC)

We've found that there is a limit, or at least it seems that way. I've made a question bank containing 60 questions, those questions won't appear while the question bank with a a lot less questions, do appear. Or is there a limit on how many questions can be drawned?