Blackboard (Faculty) - Tests, Surveys, and Pools: Question Sets

This document provides an overview of question sets.

Question Sets

Question sets are a group of questions you select from pools and/or other tests that can be selected to be displayed to the students in a random fashion.

If you have not already created a pool, see the instructions for Create A Pool.

  1. Create or access a test.
  2. On the Test Canvas, click on Reuse Question then click Create Question Set to begin searching for questions.
  3. In the Create Question Set pop-up window, select the check boxes for one or more pools.
  4. Filter questions by Question Type, Categories, Topics, Levels of Difficulty, and/or Keywords. 
  5. Select the check box(es) of the questions displayed to be used in the Question Set.

    Create a question set setup screen

  6. Click Submit. The Test Canvas appears and displays a success message. The random block of questions is added to the test.
  7. Click the Number of Questions to display field to access the pop-up box and type the number of questions to display to students.

    question set numbering example

  8. Click the Points per question field to access the pop-up box. Type a point value per question. This point value is assigned to each question in the question set. You cannot assign separate point values for individual questions in the same question set. Therefore, you may want to only include questions of approximately the same difficulty.

Note: To remove or delete questions from a question set, follow the following instructions: 

  1. Click the Questions in the Set drop-down.
  2. Click the check boxes of the questions to be removed.
  3. Click Remove Question.
  4. Click OK to confirm.

    remove question example


Keywordsblackboard, black board, bb, test, tests, pool, pools, question sets, questions, question set   Doc ID111629
OwnerCenter I.GroupSouthern Illinois University Edwardsville
Created2021-06-11 15:56:23Updated2024-03-06 11:10:09
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