ADVANCED BRIGHTSPACE GUIDELINES FOR FACULTY
Question Pools
A question pool in Brightspace is a collection of questions from which the system draws questions randomly reducing their predictability. A quiz, on the other hand, is the assessment that students take, which can include questions from one or more of these pools.
Question pools are stored in the Question Library and, unless included in a quiz, they are not automatically available to students. In Brightspace, folders used to organize questions in the library are called sections. Each question pool should contain questions of a consistent difficulty level and focus on a specific key concept, reflected in the pool title. For example, a question pool titled ‘Water Pollution – Intermediate’ can contain 20 questions about that topic. Another pool may be Climate Change – Advanced, etc. It is recommended that each pool include more questions than will be delivered in the quiz to ensure variety and uphold academic integrity.
Glossary
Question Pool
– a repository of questions from which the system randomly selects quiz questions. This method is useful for creating dynamic assessment, where each student may receive a different set of questions when taking the same quiz.
Question Library Section
– a folder used to organize questions in the question library.
Quick Tips
Organize Question Library
Create sections in the question library, each focusing on a specific key concept and maintaining a consistent difficulty level, clearly reflected in the section title.
Populate Sections with Questions
Create or upload questions into each section in the question library.
Add Question Pools to a Quiz
Create a quiz question that links to a specific pool by selecting the desired pool and specifying the number of questions to be displayed.
Click on the Quizzes link at the top navbar.
Click on the Question Library tab.
Click on the New button.
Select the Section option.
Enter the name of the question collection in the Section Title box.
It is recommended to use names that reflect a topic or a key concept from your course. Also, consider adding the level of difficulty to the title, e.g., Water Pollution – Advanced.
Save.
Create a section for each key concept. Optionally, add a description, enable question shuffling, and set the visibility.
Click on the Quizzes link at the top navbar.
Click on the Question Library tab.
Once you create sections for all topics that you plan to cover, click on one section title from the list.
ANew. Click on the New button if you wish to manually create questions for the section.
BImport. Click on Import if you already have a Brightspace-compatible question file that you downloaded from the textbook publisher or other LMS.
Click on Done Editing Questions when you finish populating the section with quiz questions. Repeat the process for each section.
Click on the Quizzes link from the top navbar.
Click on the Manage Quizzes tab.
Click on the New Quiz button.
Add the name of the quiz.
Click on the Create New button at the bottom, under the Questions section.
Select the Question Pool option.
Click on the Browse Questions Library button.
Search for the section that contains the question pool you want to add to the quiz.
Checkmark the section(s) from which you want to import questions into the pool.
Click on Import.
Add the number of questions that you want the system to display to students from this question section.
In our example, students will see 3 questions randomly selected from a group of 10 questions.
In the Question Pool Title textbox, type in the name of the section title(s) from which you have selected the questions.
Repeat the process of adding pools to other questions in the quiz.
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