Creating and Editing Question Pools
You can create Pools as a way to produce assignments randomly generated from items assembled in a customized set. When initially creating pools, you can select specific items, set a point value for each, and determine how many items from that pool are displayed during your students' take. Then during the take, the CNOWv2 randomly chooses the designated number of items from the Pool.
When your students retake an assignment using pools, these subsequent attempts recreate a new set of questions from the pool, however, there is a possibility of a question being reselected. Pooling does not affect the algorithmically generated content in your questions.
Note: In order to have new questions selected for each take, the Grading option for Carry all responses and feedback into subsequent takes? must be set to No.
To create and manage question pools
With your content already selected, you are ready to preview and select the individual questions to put in a new Pool.
- 1. Once you have the appropriate course or section selected, click the Create Assignment button on the Assignments page.
- 2. Click Add Content to open the Available Items page.
- 3. Choose the content for your assignment by selecting check boxes for individual items or using the Assign Listed check box to add entire sections of content. Click Done when you are finished.
- 4. (Optional) Review individual items by clicking the item name or the Preview button that appears when you mouse over the item name. From the preview window you have the following options:
- ° Click the Show Answer Key button to display the correct answers for Test or Homework assignments. You can then click on a selection on the content menu to see the correct response for individual questions. You can also select to see the answer key for any questions you've placed in pools by choosing a pool from a dropdown list.
- ° Click Done to exit the Preview window and return to the previous screen.
- 5. Choose questions for a Pool by selecting the check boxes adjacent to individual item names.
- 6. Click the Add New Pool button and a Pool dialog box will appear at the bottom of your item list. The new pool containing the items you selected are listed below.
- 7. Click Edit Pool to add a descriptive Name for your new Pool, the Item Weight (point value) for each question, and enter a number for Items to choose to determine how many questions from the pool are randomly selected to use in the assignment.
- 8. Remove items from a pool by selecting the appropriate check box(es) and click the Unpool Items button.The items are removed from the pool and returned to the list of unpooled items.
- 9. (Optional) You can reorganize your assignment by clicking and dragging pools and/or items in the item list.
- 10. Click Done and your new Pool will appear in the item list.
Click the Deselect Unpooled Items button to quickly undo any selections or select all available items by clicking Select Unpooled Items.
Note: You can also click Add New Pool without selecting any items first. You can then add items by simply dragging them into the empty pool.
Note: You can also quickly remove items from pools by dragging them out and placing them back into the main list or into another pool.
Note: To create another Pool, select the appropriate items and click Add New Pool. Then continue the steps above until you have populated your assignment with the desired number of items and pools.
To delete a Pool
- 1. Enter the assignment creation wizard by either editing or creating an assignment from the Assignments page.
- 2. Move your cursor over the title of the Pool to be deleted to display the Delete Pool button (the Edit Pool button will also appear).
- 3. Click Delete Pool to remove the Pool.
Note: To undo your action, click the Deleted Pool confirmation message that appears at the bottom of the page. This message disappears automatically within a few seconds.
