Add questions to an online quiz and a Question Bank

With Aspen IMS, teachers can administer online quizzes, which students take using the Student portal.

There are two ways to include questions in an online quiz:

• Teachers can create the questions as they create their quiz.
• Teachers can use a Question Bank to select questions that are added at the district level, school level, or by the teachers themselves.

To add questions to a Question Bank:

1. Do one of the following:
• If you are a district-level curriculum developer, log on to the District or Intermediate Organization view. Click the Assessment tab, then click the Question Bank side-tab.
• If you are a school-level curriculum developer or department head, log on to the School view. Click the Assessment tab, then click the Question Bank side-tab.
• If you are a teacher, log on to the Staff view. Click the Tools tab, then click the Question Bank side-tab.

• A list of questions already created appears. As a teacher, you might see questions for your subject and grade levels that were created at the district or school level, in addition to any of the questions you created in your personal Question Bank.

  For each question, the Percent Correct column shows the historical percentage of students who have answered this question correctly in previous online quizzes.

2. On the Options menu, click Add. The New Question page appears.

3. 

   Note: For district- and school-level questions, select the Subject and Grade level. This determines which teachers can select these questions when creating online quizzes.

3. Use the following table to enter information in the fields:

4. Field	Description
   Type	Select MC (multiple choice), OR (open response), or SA (short answer) from the drop-down.
   Point Value	This field appears if you create this question while creating a quiz. Type the number of points students earn if they answer this question correctly.
   Add to shared question bank	This field appears if you create this question while creating a quiz. Select the checkbox to add the question to the school and district Question Bank, in addition to your own. Then the question is available to all teachers who browse the school and district Question Bank.
   Text editor	Use the text editor to type the content of the question. You can use all the capabilities of a text editor, such as links, images, etc.
   Correct answer	This field appears if the Type is OR (open response) or SA (short answer). If the question is an OR, type the answer for your own reference while correcting the quizzes online. If the question is an SA, type the answer in the Correct answer field. Aspen uses this text to score student answers. If the student does not spell the answer correctly, it is marked incorrect. Aspen does not score spaces, punctuation, or capitalization.

1. For multiple choice questions only, the Answers section appears.

2. 

   1. Click Add to add the first answer choice.
   2. Use the following table to fill in the fields:

      Important: You cannot include commas in the text you put in the Answers field. This causes an error when Aspen IMS does the scoring.

1. 1. Field	Description
      Answers	Type a possible answer to the question.
      Correct Answer	From the drop-down, select Yes if this the correct answer, or No if it is incorrect.
      Description	Type additional information for the answer, or insert links or images.
      Order	Enter the sequence number for this answer to indicate where it appears on the quiz.

   3. To enter additional answers, click Add and repeat step b.

4. To associate this quiz with a learning standard, click Multi-Add. The Learning Standards pick list appears.
5. Use the following table to complete the fields:

6. Field	Description
   Narrow by category	Use this drop-down to select the learning standard (Common Core, state, etc.).
   Search for text	To sort the display of learning standards, enter a keyword to sort by.
   Show details/ Hide details	Select this checkbox to display or hide additional information about each learning standard.

6. Select the checkbox next to each learning standard to associate with the quiz. Or select the checkbox next to Show details to associate all the learning standards displayed with the quiz.
7. Click OK.
8. Click Save.