Questions can be saved in Q-Bank in two ways:

- Most frequently, questions have been created within an activity, and are then selectively imported into Q-Bank from that activity.  This is the subject of the following article;

- Alternatively, questions can be imported in bulk into Q-Bank using a CSV file.

Note that although new questions cannot be created directly within Q-Bank, Q-Bank does have its own question editor which allows the editing of existing questions.

Importing questions from any activity into Q-Bank

The most common and easiest way for new questions to be created is as part of an activity.  The activity editor permits easy creation of new questions, cloning and editing of questions in order to create other similar questions.  However, questions created as part of an activity are not automatically saved into the Q-Bank.  Instead, facilitators can import questions selectively from any of their activities, into Q-Bank:

1. In Q-Bank, click on the "Import from Activities" button.  The Import Questions form pops up;
2. Select the source activity for your questions from the list on the left (all of the facilitator's activities are listed there).  All of the questions in that activity will be displayed on the right of the form;
3. Select the question(s) to be imported, choosing questions which will have the same properties assigned to them in Q-Bank (see below for clarification).  Once satisfied with your selection, press "Next".  The Question Properties editor appears;
4. Select the properties to be applied to all of the selected questions (see below);
5. Once satisfied, press the "Import" button.  All of the selected questions will be imported into Q-Bank.

Repeat the above process for different groups of questions (ie where other properties are to be shared), or for questions from different activities.

Setting properties for questions in Q-Bank

Questions are organised in Q-Bank using the properties submitted when the questions are imported.  These properties can later be edited using Q-Bank's question editor. Using the question import process, properties can be chosen and applied to all of the selected questions at once.  The properties available are:

Category: Select up to three categories or sub-categories with which this question is to be associated.   If none of the provided categories suit, select "Others".  Note that you can create your own sub-categories in this list. See: Question Category (in Q-Bank); Adding new categories to your Q-Bank;

Share to:  Select the Scope to which you want to share this question.  If you do not wish it to be shared at all through Q-Bank, select "Mine" (this is the default value).  If you want to share the question with other facilitators in your institution, select "Institution".  If you want to share this question with all Xorro facilitators, select "Global" (See Question Scope in Q-Bank);

Source:  This is an open text field where the question's source or author might be enterred, in case this is helpful for later search purposes;

Tags: Here you should enter any tags which will be useful for searching this question in future. Typically, tags might include an activity name, a course identifier, a topic, learning outcome served by this question, a degree of difficulty, etc.  (see Using tags in Q-Bank).

Categories: Xorro-Q, Facilitators.
Tags: q-bank.