1. Open the course in which the Assessment will be created.
   
   
2. Click Lessons Tab.
   
   
3. Click Add Content.
   
   
4. Choose Assessment in the next screen.
   
   
5. Continue setting up the Assessment, choosing the options that you need. Once the Assessment has been created, Click Save. The Assessment Editor (allowing you to create Question Sets and Questions) will appear.
   
   
6. Click the Configure option if you want to apply any settings to the Question Set, such as a Title or other specific options for that set. This would be especially important if the Assessment is to contain more than one Question Set, with different settings for each set.
   
7. Once the Question Set is configured, or if you do not need to configure the Question Set, click the Add Question option.
   
   To add questions from a Question Bank, you have two choices: you can browse and choose questions from the available Question Banks, or you can search and add them according to specific criteria.
   

Using the Browse Option

1. Click Browse Question Bank in the Select Questions from Other Sources section in the lower part of the Add Questions screen. This will open up a screen that will display all of the Question Banks in which you have access. This includes Question Banks in all Courses, Groups, and Master Courses in which you have Course Editor rights.
   It will also include LORs that are either associated with the course or in which you have Course Editor rights.
   
   
2. Choose the Question Banks in the Course by checking the box next to it. You could also choose more than one Question Bank.
   
   
3. Click the “+” next to the Question Bank to expand it and see all the folders and subfolders within it.
   
   
4. Check the box next to the Question Bank that you want to use. This will copy ALL of the Questions in that Question Bank into the Assessment.
   
   
5. Clicking the Configure copy options link allows for the standards, keywords, and difficulty level associated with each question to also be copied. Checking Automatically accept changes made to these questions when the master sources change will allow for the question to be updated if the question is ever changed within the source bank is copying from a Master Course or a Repository. Click Done.
   
   
6. On the next screen, you will see that all the questions from that bank have been added.

Using the Search Option

The other option for adding questions from a Question Bank is to use the Search option. This will select questions from all Question Banks, or selected Question Banks, by using specific criteria, including keywords, Question Bank folders, difficulty level, type of question, and text.

1. From the Add Question screen, choose Search Question Bank
   
   
2. You could input a search term here, but click Advanced search to access the different criteria for searching.One of the choices that you can use for the advanced search is: Limit results by keyword.
   
   
3. Choose keywords. This will bring up a list of all keywords associated with questions within all the Question Banks that the course can access, and that enables you to click on the keywords you need.The Match ANY keyword option will select all questions that contain any of the keywords selected. Limiting the search to Match ALL keywords would select only questions that contain every keyword selected.
   
   
4. Click to highlight the Course or LOR that contains the Question Bank you want to use, and then click the Select button. (Note that you can also select all of the Question Banks or more than one.)
   
5. Then select the keywords for the questions you want to use and click the Add Selected button.
   
   
6. Finally click the Save button at the bottom.
   
   Limit by question type
   
   
   
   1. Check the boxes next to the type(s) of questions that you want to appear on the Assessment.
      
      
   2. Choose Question Bank Filters limits the search to specific Question Banks indicated by the folders selected. Click Choose folders to select the specific folders you wish to have the questions taken from.

      This works much like it does in Browse. It will allow access to all of the Question Banks, so that you can choose the specific banks to include in the questions.

   3. When you are returned, you will see the folder listed by name, and the name of the Question Bank from which it came is shown beneath it.
      
      

      Limit by difficulty level

      This feature allows you to specify the difficulty of the questions selected. As with Keywords, the Difficulty Level needs to have already been set within each question in order to enable this feature.

   4. Place a check mark within the difficulty levels that you wish you use.
      
      
   5. You can also filter by Standards or Objectives, if they have been mapped to questions. This would narrow questions to those that have been mapped to the specific standards or objectives selected. Use the Choose Standards Filters or Choose Objectives Filters to select the desired Standard(s) or Objective(s).
      
      
   6. You can also search for questions containing specific Text by inputting it in the field next to the search button.
      
      
   7. Click the Search button to continue.
      
      
   8. All questions matching the criteria you have set are now added to the screen. You can further select the questions you want to use from the question list by checking the box next to each one, or you can select all of them at one time by checking the Select all on this page box and then clicking the Save button.