Blackboard Vista: Working with Question Sets

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Question sets enable you to create a group of questions from which only a random number, which you specify, are presented to your students. After you create the question set, you can edit the number of questions that will be randomly presented to your students. For example, you have 10 questions in a set. You can specify that students see 5 questions out of the total 10. Each student will receive a different set of 5 questions. You can edit the question set as long as no students have taken the quiz. Using question sets helps alleviate students sharing quiz answers. The questions you want to add to a question set must already be added to the Question Database.

Step 1: Access the Assessment Screen

  1. Enter questions into the Question Database and create an assessment (not illustrated).
  2. In the table, click the name of the assessment you want to add questions to. In this example, we are using the assessment Final Test.

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Step 2: Access the Question Database Screen

  1. Click Add to Assessment. The ActionLinks menu is displayed.
  2. Select Question Set. The Question Database sceen is displayed.

Step 3: Select Questions for the Set

  1. If necessary, expand the categories that you want to select the questions from (not illustrated).
  2. Select the questions you would like in the question set.
  3. Click Add Selected. The Question Set screen is displayed.

Once the question set is created, you can specify the number of questions to be randomly selected from the set and how many points each question is worth.

Step 4: Choosing the Number of Questions

  1. In the "Select" drop-down list, choose the number of questions you want Blackboard Vista to choose from the set. In this example, we have specified 4 questions.

Step 5: Specifiy Points

  1. In the "Points" text box, type the number of points each question displayed in the set will be worth. In this example, we have specified that each question is worth 5 points.
  2. Click Update Total. The total number of points for this set is updated (not illustrated).
    NOTE: The total number of points will not be updated until you click the Update Total button.
  3. Add other questions or create new question sets to add to the assessment (not illustrated).

 

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