Pools are a powerful way to create quizzing experiences for your students, and are the preferred method used by most instructors. This guide is broken into three sections:
Introducing Pools
Creating a Pool
Adding Pools to a Quiz
1. Introducing Pools
A Pool is a collection of questions selected at random from within a single Question Bank. When creating a pool, you set how many questions you want pulled at random from the bank and shown to students during a quiz.
Pools allow randomization of questions from a bank to be added into a quiz, so students taking the same quiz may receive different questions from the same bank.
You can:
Pull as many questions as you want from a specific bank.
Add as many Pools as you want to a single quiz.
2. Creating a Pool
To add questions from a bank into a pool:
Go to the Quizzes page in the Control Center.
Select Question Banks at the top.
Search for and select the bank you want.
Open the Question Pools tab and click + Create Pool.
Enter a name, select how many questions should be included in the pool, or click Select all questions from pool.
Your pool is now ready to use in quizzes.
3. Adding Pools to a Quiz
You can add multiple pools to a quiz. This is especially useful if you want to build a quiz that covers multiple chapters, such as a Mid-term Exam or an End-of-Module quiz.
To add a Pool into a quiz:
From the quiz Build page, click Add from Question Bank.
Search for the Question Bank where you created your pool.
Click the Pools button.
Find the pool you want and click the blue + button.
Your pool is now added to the quiz.