Quiz with Question Bank (Gen Ed)

1

Review the general education outcomes for your class

You can view these by going to your class in Canvas and clicking on the Outcomes link.

 
2

Write some questions that will allow you to determine if students have met the general education outcome

(You might want to collaborate with colleagues.)

 
3

Create a Question Bank and create the questions in the bank

(If you have set of questions in a word processing file, like Microsoft Word, CIDI can help you import those questions into a bank.)

 
4

Align the Question Bank with the General Education Outcome

  1. From the Quizzes page, click on the three dot menu button and click Manage Question Banks

    Canvas course quizzes page with options button clicked and manage question banks highlighted

  2. Click of the title of the question bank that was created in Step 3 above

    Manage Question Banks page with name of question bank highlighted

  3. Click the Align Outcome button

    Canvas question bank page with options to add a question, edit bank detail, move multiple questions, delete bank, bookmark this bank, and align outcome with align outcome highlighted

  4. Select the outcome to import

    5. Click on the applicable General Education outcome that was previously imported into your class

    Check and adjust the masterly level percentage that a student needs to score on the presented questions to be reported as achieving the objective

    Then, click the Import button

    Find outcomes box with BAI: Criteria 4 selected and mastery score set at 60% with the import button highlighted

 
5

Create a Quiz in your Canvas course

 
6

On the Questions tab, click the New Question Group button

New question group button

 
7

A new group will appear in the quiz. Click on Link to a Question Bank.

Link to bank button

 
8

Select the question bank that you previously linked to the outcome and click the Select Bank button

Select bank button

 
9

Add the number of questions you want included from the group and the number of points to be awarded per question, then click the Create Group button

(Questions have to have greater than 0 points assigned to them for the outcome threshold to be calculated properly. If you want the scores to not count toward student grades, you can add the quiz to a grading group weighted at 0% of the course grade on the assignments page.)

Create Rubric

 
10

As students take the quiz, their scores on the question bank questions will determine whether or not they have met the outcome

Note: Questions selected from the question bank will appear in random order. If you want questions to appear in a specific order, use the Find Questions button to add the questions to the quiz individually.