Once you have created your test or quiz, you can then publish it into a new Question Bank within your Blackboard Ultra course. Follow these steps to publish your file:
Step 1 Import your test file
Step 2 Publish Test to Question Bank
Step 3 Adding the Question Bank Questions to New Test
Step 1 Import your test file
1. Click the Start tab and then click Import Questions.
2. For the type of file – click the down arrow and select Microsoft Word 2007 (DOCX).
3. Click Browse, select the word file containing your formatted questions and answers and then click Open.
4. Enter in a name.
5. Click Preview.
6. You should see in the Preview results all of the questions were loaded. If you question has an image, you will see the image thumbnail icon.
Note – in the Warning and Notes – if you have the message about the duplicate question title, you can ignore it.
7. Click Finish.
8. Click OK.
Step 2 Publish Test to Question Bank
1. Click Preview + Publish and then click on Publish.
2. Click Publish Wizard.
3. Select either Publish to single course, Batch Publish to multiple courses, or Save pool to local file for manual uploading. For this example, we will publish to a single course.
4. Choose your server. If you have not set up a server yet, choose add new server. Here is how to set up a new server:
NOTE: You only have to create this server once. When you need to publish another test over to your Blackboard course, you will just select your server which you created in the above step #4.
5. Select Yes, check for preconfigured server settings and then click Next.
6. Enter in a name.
7. Make sure that Run connection test is turned on and then click Next.
Note: You may be asked to install a one-time package. Make sure to install it and then move forward.
8. Click OK.
9. Click OK.
10. Click the down arrow and select RIC M365 SSO Login.
11. Login using your full RIC MS 365 email address and then click Next.
12. Enter in your password and then click Next.
13. Once you are logged into your Blackboard account, click Continue at the top right side of the page.
14. Back in Respondus, click OK.
15. Once you see Connection Test: Completed Successfully, click Next.
16. Click Finish.
17. Click Next.
18. Click OK.
19. Click OK.
20. Click the down arrow and select RIC M365 SSO Login.
21. Login using your full RIC MS 365 email address and then click Next.
22. Enter in your password and then click Next.
23. Once you are logged into your Blackboard account, click Continue at the top right side of the page.
24. Go back to Response and click OK.
25. Click the down arrow and select the course you want to publish your Pool (Question Bank)
26. Do the following:
Select Create new Pool.
Turn off all of the options below step 3.
Click Next.
27. Wait until you see the Complete successfully message and then click Next.
Step 3 Adding the Question Bank Questions to New Test
You can now create a test and reuse the question from the question bank that you just imported into your Bb Ultra course.
1. You will need to decide where you want to deploy the new test. You can either place it on the Course Content page or within a Learning Module or Folder. (Note: If you will need to expand the Learning Module or Folder first.)
2. Hover your cursor over the area where you want to add the file and click the (+) icon.
3. Select “Create” from the dropdown menu:
4. Below the Assessment section, click Test.
5. Enter in a name for your test.
6. Click the purple (+) sign.
7. Click Reuse questions.
8. Select the question bank containing your questions.
9. Click Select All.
10. Click Copy Questions.
11. Change the points to each question to equal up the total max points for the test and then click Save.
12. Click the gear icon to open up the Test's settings.
13. When you are done with the test settings, click Save at the bottom of the panel.
14. Either select Visible to students (if you want the test to be available to the students now) or select Release conditions (if you want to release the test to the students on a specific day and time).
Please refer to the Ultra - Reuse Question article