Question Bank
The Question Bank (currently in Open Beta) is your pool of assessment questions in ArcLab.
Store and manage all your questions, organised by category (e.g. topic, difficulty level) to personalise each learner’s assessment, who will receive their own personalised set of questions.
When creating Multiple-Choice assessments or quizzes on your ArcLab modules, these questions can be automatically pulled out from your Question Bank to be displayed to your learners – saving you a great deal of time from having to construct them from scratch!
To start using the Question Bank feature:
1. Go to Module Settings (dropdown menu beside project/module title). Then, click Question Settings.
2. Click View Sample Excel Sheet or you may access it directly here.
(n/b – for a sense of what a module with Question Bank looks like, please try this module: https://arclab.io/qb-sample-module)
3. Click File > Download > Microsoft Excel (.xlsx).
4. Using the template provided, enter the relevant question information into the respective columns accordingly. Keep the headers unchanged & delete the unused columns once you’re done.
Note:
(i) Each Question can have 2, 3 or 4 Answer Options.
(ii) Each Question can have 1 or more Question Bank Tags (These Tags instruct ArcLab on the criteria for questions to select from the Question Bank to be shown to learners).
(If you choose to upload a Question Bank without Tags, ArcLab can then show the learner any question from the Question Bank for the learner, as long as it has not been shown before)
Tip: You can categorise or label your questions with multiple tags. These tags provide the specifications on which are the type of questions that you want to display from your Question Bank.
5. On your Editor > Module Settings > Question Settings, click Upload to upload your completed Excel spreadsheet.
6. Check and ensure that your questions, correct answer options, and tags are correct. Then, click Save Changes.
7. Add a Multiple-Choice Question screen to your module. Then, under Screen Settings, toggle Yes for the option Pull from Question Bank.
8. The “Question Bank” panel will open up (click the icon on the right panel of your Editor to access this at any time too).
Click on the Question Bank Tag(s) to specify the type of question that you want to retrieve and display from your Question Bank. For example, if the Question Bank Tags “Maths” and “Easy” are selected, any questions in your Question Bank that have both tags present will be randomly selected to be displayed for your learners.
If no Question Bank Tags are selected for this question screen, ArcLab can then select ANY question from the Question Bank to the learner, as long as it has not been selected before.
Note: If there are not enough questions with the required number and combination of Question Tags to fit your module, or if there are not enough questions in your Question Bank, an on-screen warning will appear in ArcLab Editor.
To remedy this –
Option 1: Add more questions with the required Question Bank Tags to your Question Bank spreadsheet and re-upload it, or
Option 2: Remove some Question Bank Tags from the affected MCQ Screens.
9. Duplicate as many Multiple-Choice Question screens as you desire and then configure Question Bank Tags for each screen accordingly.
10. You can also choose to Randomise the order of Answer Options shown to each learner, mitigating possible situations where learners may “compare notes”.
You can also configure the Time Limit and Display Percentage options for your Multiple-Choice Question accordingly.
11. You can now also edit Question Bank questions / answers / tags directly in the Question Bank screen too.
Remember to click “Save” before exiting the window.
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