Working with Questions
This section describes tasks you can complete relative to questions, including the following:
Displaying a section’s questions
Searching for questions
Deleting a question
Note
You cannot modify the text of a question or its answer from within the File Cabinet. To modify either of these, you must import the question into an assignment using Test Builder, make changes, and save it again to the File Cabinet.
Use this procedure to display a list of questions in any section.
If you haven’t already done so, display the File Cabinet, as described in Navigate to the File Cabinet.
Click the name of the assignment.
In response, the system displays a list of sections.
Click the name of any section.
The system displays a list of questions.
This list includes the text of each question and the question’s type. It does not contain the question’s answer. To work with the answer, you must import the question into an assignment using the Coursework feature, as described in Adding Content to Online Tests.
If you want to check to see whether any of your saved assignments contain a particular question, use the Search for questions feature.
Note that you can also search for questions from within the Coursework feature when you are in the process of importing.
Display the File Cabinet, as described in Navigate to the File Cabinet.
Click the Search for questions link, which is in the upper right portion of the screen.
The system displays a form.
Enter search criteria and/or select the question type from the drop-down list box. Note that the search criteria field is not case-sensitive.
If you want to search the answers as well as the question text, select the Also search answer options checkbox.
Click Search.
The system returns a list of items that match your search criteria. The initial results view includes the following information:
The question text (but not the answer)
The location of the question (with the name of the assignment listed first, then the section)
The question type
If you want more information, do one of the following:
To see all the questions in the section, besides the one you just searched for, click the name of the section.
In some cases, you can click the question text to see more details about the question, such as any feedback you set up for the question and a list of the available options (for multiple choice/answer questions). This view does not show the answer to the question; to see the answer, you must locate the question in Test Builder and open the question for editing there.
To see a list of all the sections in the assignment, click the name of the assignment.
To delete one or more questions from a saved assignment, use this procedure.
If you haven’t already done so, display the question you want to delete using one of the following procedures:
Using the checkboxes at the left, select the question(s) you want to delete.
Click Delete Selected.
The system displays a pop-up window asking if you are sure you want to delete the item(s).
Click OK.