Cougar Courses 3.0 Adding Quiz Questions from the
Question Bank
Overview
This document explains how to add questions from the Question bank to a quiz, including adding a specified number of
questions randomly selected from a category for each quiz attempt. To do this, you must have previously created the
questions in a category in the question bank or imported questions from a publisher’s test bank or Respondus.
To learn how to create questions and categories, see Creating Quiz Questions.
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Log onto Cougar Courses and go to the main page of your course.
Click Turn editing on.
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Click on the quiz name from your course home page.
In the Administration block, select Edit quiz.
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Use the Add dropdown to select from question bank.
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Select the category containing the questions you want
to add to the quiz.
A list of the questions in that category will display
below.
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Click the box in front of the questions you want to add
to the quiz.
To add all, click the T box at the top of the list.
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Click Add selected questions to quiz button.
Adding Random Questions from an Existing Category
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Click on the quiz name from your course home page.
In the Administration block, select Edit quiz.
Use the Add dropdown to select a random question.
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Use the category dropdown to select the category from which to add the questions.
Select the number of random questions to add from that category. This will add a random selection for each attempt
at the quiz.
Click Add random question.
Repeat steps 3-7 to add questions from other categories.
Select to shuffle the order of
the questions for each
attempt.
Other settings
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