Tag questions with metadata in tests and question banks – 3902.1

Impact: Instructors
Updated Help Topic: "Sort and search question banks" section of Question Banks
Idea Exchange ID: LEARNU-I-932

Instructors can now tag questions with metadata when creating or editing questions in tests, forms, and banks. Metadata is not visible to students during test-taking or review.

Instructors

When creating or editing a question, instructors can turn on Question metadata, then create or apply a tag to the question. Created tags become available in the Enter question tags search results, allowing instructors to apply that tag to other questions without needing to create them again.

Metadata is visible during question creation or editing and can be used to filter questions when reusing or adding to pools. Created tags are facets in the Categories filter set available on the question banks and Reuse question pages.

Question metadata for tests and pools that were copied from Original is preserved. Original offered four metadata types: Category, Topics, Levels of Difficulty, and Keywords. When questions have metadata that belongs to Topics, Levels of Difficulty, or Keywords metadata type, that type also becomes available for filtering on the question banks and Reuse question pages.

Example: An instructor copied an Original question pool to Ultra. The question pool contained questions that had metadata for all four types. When viewing the question bank in Ultra, the Tags section of the filter panel has filter sets for Categories, Topics, Levels of Difficulty, and Keywords. The Original tags are facets in these filter sets.

Image 1: Instructors can create and apply a tag to questions.