Question Library and Types
The Question Library in Brightspace is a central repository that stores and archives questions which you can reuse within a module. Each Brightspace module contains a Question Library where you can organize your questions by type and topic, making it easier for you to find and reuse questions for your quizzes. The Question Library acts as the bank of questions that is shared by the quizzes, surveys and self assessments tools.
Practical Tip
It is recommended for organisation and ease of access that you create all your quiz questions from within the Question Library. By creating questions in the Question Library you can make them available to any number of quizzes which can be reused and shared to avoid recreating questions.
Question Types
- True or False (T/F) questions present a statement which students must determine is correct or incorrect.
- Multiple choice (M/C) questions present a statement or question with a list of possible answers, in which students must choose the best possible answer.
- Multi-select (M-S) questions require students to identify one or more correct answers in a list of possible answers. Unlike multiple choice (MC) questions, multi-select questions enable you to choose a grading format and allow students to select more than one answer.
- Written response (WR) questions require students to write detailed answers in response to open-ended questions. You can enable students to respond in multiple sentences, paragraph answers, mathematical explanations and calculations or in HTML code.
- Short answer (SA) questions require students to create one word or brief sentence answers in response to open-ended questions.
- Multi-short answer (MSA) questions require students to answer a multi-solution question and input their answers into individual input boxes. Student’s answers are checked against each possible answer stored in the answer fields.
- Fill in the blanks (FIB) questions require students to fill in one or more missing words for an incomplete sentence, statement, phrase, list, or key terminology.
- Matching (MAT) questions require students to choose from a set of possible match choices from drop-down lists and correctly pair them with related items.
- Ordering (ORD) questions require students to arrange a series of items into a correct sequence or order.
- Arithmetic questions enable you to assess students’ knowledge and comprehension of mathematics and number theory.
- Significant figures questions require students to answer in scientific notation and provide solutions that contain a specified number of significant figures.
- Likert (LIK) questions measure subjective information such as personal opinions, knowledge, abilities, and attitudes. Likert questions enable you to create surveys that evaluate the intensity of students’ feelings towards statements presented to them.
Learn More
In the context of using the Question Library these are useful resources from Brightspace which address the following areas;