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Creating questions in the Question Library

The questions in the quizzes are maintained separately from the question library. Therefore, it is a best practice to create your quiz questions in the question library and then import them to a quiz so that you don’t lose them if a quiz is deleted.

  • What is required: A D2L course in which you would like to build quizzes

Video Tutorials:

What can you do in the Question Library

Option 1: Create a new question
  1. Go to your course and click on Quizzes on the navbar
  2. Click on Question Library
  3. You probably want to organize your questions in this area, so click the New button and choose Section. A Section is similar to a folder where you would group some questions by chapter or topic.
    1. Enter a name for the section title, such as Chapter 1 or Grammar
    2. You can check the box to “Hide Section Title from Students” (recommended). It doesn’t matter if you check/unchecked the box since the section is inside the Question Library area where students can’t even access it unless you plan to copy it later to the Quiz area
    3. Enter section text (optional)
    4. You can check the box to “Hide Section Text from Students” (recommended). It doesn’t matter if you check/unchecked the box since the section is inside the Question Library area where students can’t even access it unless you plan to copy it later to the Quiz area
    5. Leave unchecked for “Shuffle questions in this section” (recommended)
    6. Click the Save button
  4. The new section folder you just created will be listed at the bottom. Click on the section’s name
  5. Start creating or adding your questions inside that section
    1. If you want to create new question, click the New button and choose a question type. View the D2L documentation to understand: various question types you can create in Brightspace
    2. Follow the guide If you want to copy questions from your existing quiz
  6. Click the Done Editing Questions to exit the Question Library
Option 2: Import existing questions
Option 3: Managing inside the Question Library

There are six things you can do to manage things inside the Question Library:

  • Edit the question
  • Edit the section
  • Move
  • Delete
  • Order
  • Edit Values

Question Library action types, 3c Move, 3d Delete, 3e Order, and 3f Edit Values.

Option 3a: Edit the question
  1. Navigate to where the question(s) are located. Click the section’s name if they’re in there
  2. Click on the question name or the drop-down next to the question’s name and choose Edit
  3. Make your changes and click the Save button or choose Cancel if you change your mind
Option 3b: Edit the section
  1. Navigate to where the section is located
  2. Click the drop-down arrow next to the section’s name and choose Edit
  3. Make your changes and click the Save button or choose Cancel if you change your mind
Option 3c: Move

Use the move tool to move one or a few questions from the root of Question Library into one of the section or to move them from one section into another

  1. Navigate to where the question(s) are located. Click the section’s name if they’re in there
  2. Check the box next to the question(s) name you want to move
  3. Click Move
    1. Click on the section’s name if you want to move the question(s) into that section, or
    2. Choose Collection Root to move them outside of all existing sections
    3. Click the Cancel button if you change your mind
  4. You will see a message “Saved successfully”
Option 3d: Delete

Use the delete tool to delete unwanted question(s)

  1. Navigate to where the question(s) are located. Click the section’s name if they’re in there
  2. Check the box next to the question(s) name you want to delete
  3. Click Delete
  4. Click the Delete button to complete deletion process or choose Cancel if you change your mind
Option 3e: Order

Use the order tool to move and organize the order of the question(s) or section(s)

  1. Navigate to where the question(s) or section(s) are located. Click the section’s name if they’re in there
  2. Click Order
  3. You will need to select and move the question one at a time, unless you want to move a group of them that are already in the same place. Check the box next to the question(s) or section(s) and
    1. click the Move Up button D2L-QuestionLibrary-MoveUpbutton-inOrder to move them up, or
    2. click the Move Down button D2L-QuestionLibrary-MoveDownbutton-inOrder to move them down
  4. Click the Save button to save changes or choose Cancel if you change your mind
Option 3f: Edit Values

It is not necessary to change the point value of the questions inside the Question Library because you can also change it later once you bring them into the Quizzes area

  1. Navigate to where the question(s) are located. Click the section’s name if they’re in there
  2. Check the box next to the question(s) name you want to change
  3. Click Edit Values
  4. Make your changes and click the Save button or choose Cancel if you change your mind