New Jersey City University
WebCT Help Files

Quizzing & Question Database

Creating a new category and managing questions in the questions database:

1. Click on the quizzes or final exam icon on the course homepage.
2. Make sure the designer options tab is selected.
3. Click on the questions database link.
4. To the right under view, select all categories to see everything you have in the database.
5. If you want to add a new category such as final exam click on create category, type in the title of the category, and click create.
6. To move questions from one category to another, select all categories again under the view categories option.
7. Place a check next to each question to be moved.
8. In the right hand menu, scroll down to question options, and find move to.
9. Select the category where the questions should belong and click go.
10. This would also be a good time to delete any unused categories, because if you import all categories into your new class, it will import empty categories also.
11. To delete a category, go to the questions database and look under category options.
12. Under delete, select the category and click go

1. In the questions database under category options, select view all categories and click go
2. Select all of the questions for Mid Term Exam and Final Exam by clicking the check box next to each question. This will select just those questions for downloading. Don’t include questions from the Course Completion Survey, because then they will be in your new course 2 times and will only confuse the situation.
3. Click download and you will be prompted to save file to hard drive. Select my documents for the saving location, so you will know where to find the file in the next step.

1. Click on the quizzes icon.
2. Click the designer options tab at the top of the page
3. Click the question database link near the top of the page
4. Click import questions from file button in the right hand column of the page
5. Click browse and then select the text file from your computer hard drive
6. Click upload
7. Select the radio button next to the file in the list and click on add selected
8. All of your questions will appear from from all categories; however, your questions from Mid Term and Final still need to be linked up to the actual quiz in the class. The process so far has only imported questions from your questions database and they are separate from any quiz.

1. Click quizzes icon
2. On the right-hand side of the browser window click create quiz
3. Type in the title and click create

1. Click on the quiz title, Final Exam, for example.
2. In the right hand column click on add questions.
3. The question browser window will pop up. Scroll down until you see the final exam folder.
4. Click the check box next to final exam folder in order to select all of the questions in that folder.
5. At the bottom of the window, click on add selected.
6. Assign a point value to each question and click update total
7. Click on edit quiz settings in order to customize the quiz release time, etc.
8. After adjusting quiz settings click update.
   

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