Importing Existing Questions into Question Library

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Last updated: Jul 12, 2024 by Gareth Seymour
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The Question Library is a good place to store, organize, and easily access all your questions within a course. Import questions into Question Library to consolidate questions created with the Quizzes, Surveys, and Self Assessments tools.

  • Consolidating questions within Question Library enables users to efficiently transfer questions to new courses using the Copy Course Components feature.

  • Users can import questions from existing assessments, a CSV file or a learning object repository.

Please keep in mind:

  • When you import questions into surveys or self-assessments, the answers from the Question Library, point value, and difficulty indicators are automatically removed. They are not removed from the original question in the Question Library.

  • You cannot import Likert questions to quizzes and self-assessments because they are unique to surveys.

 

Screenshot of the question library tool. The Import button is highlighted and the drop-down menu from the import button is also highlighted.
Questions can be imported into the library from a file or existing assessments.

Import Questions into the Question Library From a File

Brightspace offers a CSV Question template for instructors so they can format their files properly for import:
Download Brightspace CSV Template

  1. In Question Library, click Import.

  2. From the Import button, select Upload a File.

  3. From the Upload a File Window, select the source where existing questions reside by clicking Browse and selecting the file or dragging and dropping the selected file into the Upload a File Window.

  4. Once the file finishes importing, view the uploaded questions in the Upload a File window.

  5. To import all the questions from the upload, click Import All. To import select questions from the file upload, select the questions you want to upload and click Import.

Import Questions into the Question Library Using a Test Question Generator

Algonquin College has created a Brightspace test question generator, which allows instructors to create and import questions into their Question Libraries in an easier fashion than using the CSV Template.

Carleton University has built upon this, creating a slightly more up to date version, found here: Brightspace Test Question Generator.

Import Questions into Question Library From an Existing Collection

A screenshot of the question library tool page browsing existing questions for import. the source button and drop-down options are highlighted.
Existing assessments in your course site can be the source of your library import

  1. In Question Library, click Import.

  2. From the Import button, select Browse Existing Questions.

  3. From the Source Collection drop-down list [1], select the source where existing questions reside (quiz, survey, self-assessment).

  4. From the Source Section drop-down list, select the source or a specific section [2] where existing questions reside.

  5. Select the questions [3] you want to import, then click Import. You can expand any sections and select specific questions.

  6. The new section of the library will probably need to be renamed. You can also set it to shuffle questions.

Need more help?

Need some help reorganizing Migrated Sakai Question Pools on Brightspace? Visit this resource for detailed steps: Creating your Question Library in Brightspace from Sakai Question Pools - Brightspace at Brock Documentation - Confluence (atlassian.net)

 

 

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