Question Sets, Banks and Pools

Because of the terminology shift from Blackboard to ANGEL, there can be confusion in understanding the differences between a question set, a question bank and a question pool.

• Question Set is a group of questions “presented” together in ANGEL. For instance, if you have an illustration and then several questions that relate to that image, you’d want to present the questions together as a question set. By default, as you create an assessment, all questions are in a single question set.
• Question Bank is a collection of all questions available for use within a single course. Each course and LOR has its own question bank, but the questions can be accessed (added to an assessment) from the same screen.
• Question Pool is used when you wish to randomly select a given number of questions from an assessment out of a larger group of questions. That is, you may want to randomly display for each student 5 questions (in a quiz) out of 15 questions in a question pool.