Add questions to your assessment from the Questions area. You can add content and control settings for each question in the assessment question builder screens.

Note: There is a limit of 200 questions per assessment.

Create Assessment Questions

To create questions:

Click a question type from the left menu.
Fill out the Question Setup and Correct Answer Setup fields.
Optional: Enter Author Notes to explain why certain choices are incorrect, or why you chose to allocate a certain percentage of possible points to alternate answers. This information will not display to students.
Optional: Add a Learning Objective to the question.
Click Save to complete.

Add Questions from an Item Bank to an Assessment

Once you have an item bank in Schoology, you can build assessments with items from the banks. You can add individual questions from an item bank, or you can add a randomized block of items from one or more item banks when you create your assessment.

Note: Questions added to assessments from item banks are copied, not linked. Any changes made to questions within item banks do not update the copies in assessments.

To add individual questions from item banks to an assessment:

In your course, create an assessment or select the name of the assessment into which you'd like to add items.
In the Questions area, click Add From Item Bank.
Navigate to the item bank you would like to import items from.
Check the box next to each item you'd like to import. Use the Select all option to add all items.
Enter the Set Points for each item. If none is set, it defaults to 1.
Selected items are highlighted at the bottom for ease of reference. Use the links at the top to explore multiple item banks and select items from several banks.
Once you are finished selecting items, click Add Items.
To reorder items, drag and drop any item to the desired order.

To add a random selection of items from one or more item banks to an assessment:

In your course, create an assessment or select the name of the assessment into which you'd like to add items.
In the Questions area, click Add from Item Bank.
Navigate to the item bank you would like to import items from.
Click Add Randomized Items.
In the Add Randomized Items window, enter:
- The number of items that you want to generate from the bank.
- How many points each item is worth.
Click Add Items.
Selected items are highlighted at the bottom for ease of reference. Use the links at the top to explore multiple item banks and select additional randomized items from several banks.
Notes:
- Once you select randomized items, you cannot add individual questions in the same selection sequence. If you need to select additional individual items, complete the steps to add randomized items and then follow the steps above to add individual questions from an item bank.
- You may add both randomized items and individual items from the same item bank. Items that have been individually added to the assessment will not be included in the randomized set of items.
Click Add Items to complete. Each set of randomized items is displayed as a single block in the Questions area.

Above, randomized items added to an assessment. In this example, two sets of randomized items have been added to the assessment. Questions 1-3 contain three randomly selected questions from ELA Question Bank II and Questions 4-5 contain two randomly selected questions from Catcher in the Rye Item Bank.

Each assessment will contain the determined number of items from the selected item bank(s). Each student in the course receives a unique set of items. Even if students receive a few of the same items, they will appear in a different order, so no assessment is alike. This is helpful in maintaining the validity of your assessment results.

Manage Assessment Questions

Once you have added questions to your assessment, you’ll see them listed in the Questions area. In the Points field in the upper-right corner of each question, set the number of points the question is worth. A tally of the total number of questions and points in the assessment displays in the upper-right corner of the assessment.

Note: If the number of points you designated in the Create Assessment screen is different than the total number of combined points for all the questions in the assessment, the possible points for each question displayed to a student during an attempt will update to reflect this difference. For example, if you make the assessment worth 100 points in the Create Assessment screen, and have 9 questions on the assessment worth 10 points each, the number displayed during an attempt is 11.11: (100/90) x 10.

Alternatively, if you’ve enabled students to view their submissions, they will see the point value for each question as you’ve set it, not updated to its gradebook equivalent. In the above example, students would see each question as worth 10 points, not 11.11, when reviewing their submission.

Hover over the More Options menu in each question and select from the following options:

Copy — Adds a copy of the question to the bottom of the assessment. The name of the copied question is the same as the original, with COPY added in front. For example, a copy of Test Question is called COPY - Test Question.
Delete — Removes the question from the assessment. You cannot restore a deleted question.
Edit — Edit the number of randomized items that you want to generate from the bank and how many points per item.

Click Add Text at the top of the list of questions on the left to add additional instructions between questions anywhere in the assessment. For example, if you want to break the assessment into sections, you can add additional instructions for each section. Each question and text block displays to students on its own page in the assessment.

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