ANGEL Tip: Using Question Banks

Building a Question Bank is a great tool for creating better assessments for your courses. Think of a Question Bank as a place to store all of your questions from semester to semester. You can create your own questions, or you can upload test banks from your publisher. When creating assessments, you can then pick and choose which questions from your Question Bank you want to include on each assessment.

When creating a Question Bank that you are going to use from semester to semester, you will want to create this Question Bank in your Personal LOR. Every course you are teaching will have access to your LOR, so you will be able to use those questions in any course for any semester.

If you already have an extensive Question Bank in one of your production courses or your Source Course, you can copy the questions into your Question Bank in your LOR.

Note: Sometimes access to your LOR becomes disconnected for some or all of your courses. If this happens, you can reestablish communication between your courses and your LOR by going to the Manage tab in your LOR, clicking on Course and Group Access, clicking on My Courses, then checking the box for all of your courses and choosing the Add Selected button.

Thanks to Tracy Newman for the tip.

The Case of the Multiplying “About This Section” Nugget

We’ve had a couple cases where the About This Section nugget on the Course Home Page is duplicated and cannot be easily deleted. In working with ANGEL support, they’ve been able to cure the problem. We asked Angel support if there was any information we could forward to our faculty regarding the editing of the About This Section nugget so the duplication would not happen again. Here is what they shared:

“I'd encourage your faculty to only use the HTML toolbar to modify this area. I saw that there was some color that (had been) added and I couldn't locate a way to do that in the HTML toolbar. I believe this may have been the issue. If (course editors will) just use plain text they should be fine here.”