How to create a question?

Julie has been assigned as the paper crafter of Math 101's mid-term exam. She needs to prepare 20 questions (including 5 Choice - multiple answers questions, 5 Choice - single answer questions, and 10 questions of the Sub-question type, combined with questions of the Choice, Fill-in-the-blank, and Essay types) for the course manager who will use these questions in later exam creation. Julie can choose to add question one by one manually or prepare questions in a file and then import the questions in bulk.

Refer to the following sections to see how Julie can create a question:

Manually create one question

Manually create a question.

1.   In Examena, she clicks Create question.

2.   She selects the Math 101 course and starts creating the question by dragging and dropping a question type from the left pane to right.

3.   Complete the question settings including advanced settings, and then click Save and create another to save this question and create another question directly.

4.   After the questions have been created and displayed in the question bank, course manager can use these questions while generating exam papers.

Import questions from Word

Follow the steps below to import questions from a Word file:

1.   In the Bank page, she clicks All questions.

2.   Expand the Create question list and select Import questions from Word.

3.   Select the Math 101 course and click template to download.

Download and view the Word template.

4.   After Julie has formatted the questions in a DOCX file according to the sample, she can then upload the file to import the questions.

Upload the Word file.

Import questions from Excel

Follow the steps below to import questions from an Excel file:

1.   In the Bank page, she clicks All questions.

2.   Expand Create question list and select Import questions from Excel.

3.   Select the Math 101 course and click template to download.

Download and view the Excel template.

4.   After Julie has formatted the questions in an XLSX or XLS file according to the sample, she can then upload the file to import the questions.

Import QTI questions

Follow the steps below to import the questions that conform to QTI (Question and Test Interoperability) specification.

1.   In the Bank page, she clicks All questions.

2.   Expand Create question list and select Import QTI questions.

3.   Select the Math 101 course and upload the prepared ZIP or XML file to import questions. QTI v2.1 and v3.0 are both supported.

Import QTI questions.