Building a Question Bank

For teachers

What the Question Bank Is

The question bank is your library of reusable questions. Instead of recreating the same questions every semester, you build them once and pull them into any assignment or slide deck. Questions are stored at the course level, so each course has its own bank, but you can copy questions between courses when needed.

Twelve Question Types

Quizzibility supports a wide range of question formats to match different assessment goals:

  • Multiple Choice (MC) — Single correct answer from a list of options. The workhorse of classroom polling.
  • Multiple Select (MS) — More than one correct answer. Good for "select all that apply" scenarios.
  • True/False (T/F) — Simple binary choice. Fast to create and fast to answer.
  • Open Ended (OE) — Free-text response. Useful for warm-ups, reflections, and JiTT activities.
  • Rating — Students rate on a numeric scale (e.g., 1 to 5). Good for gauging confidence or opinion.
  • Ranking — Drag items into a preferred order. Tests understanding of priorities or sequences.
  • Fill in the Blank — Students type a short answer into a blank. Supports multiple accepted answers.
  • Matching — Pair items from two columns. Works well for vocabulary or concept-definition pairings.
  • Numeric — Students enter a number. You set an acceptable range or exact value.
  • Matrix — Grid of rows and columns where students select one option per row. Useful for Likert-scale surveys.
  • Line Select — Students select specific lines from a code block or text passage. Great for "find the bug" exercises.
  • Code Fill — Students fill in blanks within a code template. A lighter alternative to full code assignments.

Reusing Questions Across Assignments

When you create an assignment, you can pull questions from the bank instead of writing them from scratch. This is especially useful for building quizzes from a pool — select 10 questions from a bank of 30 and Quizzibility can randomize which ones each student sees.

Changes to a bank question propagate to future assignments that reference it, but assignments that have already been published keep a snapshot of the question as it was at publish time. This prevents mid-semester edits from changing an already-graded quiz.

Organizing Your Bank

Tag questions by topic, difficulty, or learning objective to make them easier to find later. As your bank grows over multiple semesters, good tagging practices save significant time during assignment creation.

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