Correcting a Pool Mistake

I made a mistake by giving a test (i.e., a Quiz) based on a pool.

I had given nine daily quizzes for the unit, but I was lazy and decided I'd assign the same keyword to the questions in the daily quizzes in order to create the testbank. My unit final would just have the keyword and then the quiz would construct an individualized test for each student. Because there were some short answer questions, and because some students were giving the same word-for-word bizarre answers to a particular question, and because I was batch grading 10-15 quizzes at a time, and because there were 154 students in the course, I had a difficult time trying to find those quizzes where I thought there might have been some collusion. A Quiz built on a pool does not have the Export feature where I could compare answers to each question. I was pretty upset that I didn't have the foresight to anticipate this problem. Perhaps if you read this paragraph, you won't make the same mistake.

What to do about it? I knew that making a full quiz was going to take some time, so I ruminated for a month, all the time bemoaning my sorry state.

I created the questions by Importing, instead of creating them one by one. Since it was the art unit, there were pictures associated with many of the questions. The pictures were already loaded in Manager, but you know what a pain it is to link them one by one and you also know that you cannot upload the URL when you Import questions. I thought about going back to the original text document that I created to upload the questions, but what if I had changed anything in the questions as a result of the students taking the quiz and then telling me about spelling errors, mis-coding the answer, etc.?

Here's what I did: I made a copy of the first quiz from Add Question, changed the name, and moved it to the unit test folder. To add the next art quiz, click on Add Content.


I selected ArtQuiz2 and clicked the Copy button.

"Copy" means to "add to" what you already have and not "replace." (I'm doing too much Control-c, Control-x, Control-v stuff with MSWord, because when you Control-c something, you've replaced what you had in memory.) Anyway, as you can see in the picture below, you can copy all the questions at once by clicking the checkbox or you can copy individual questions one at a time.

When you create a Quiz, Angel will allow 25 questions per page. You'll see that my example below has two pages, so I know that there are more than 25 questions. I ask myself "Do I want to click 25 checkboxes on this page or do I want to just select all of them with one checkbox?" Do you see the question that says "no text specified" and that it doesn't have a question mark on the icon? That's a header. And that's the reason why it would be better for you to do individual checkboxes. Check all the questions, but don't check the "no text specified." (What will happen to me if I do the one checkbox click?) Once I've made my selections, I scroll down to a Copy button, which submits my information. If you have keywords in the questions, there's a checkbox to carry those forward too. (Go to the next picture.)


Do you see that my questions have been added? Quick, before you do anything stupid, read this next sentence: You've only done the first page thus far. Now you have to click the number "2" to add the questions of the second page. If there was only one page of questions, you would not see this page. Instead you would repeat the procedure just completed to add ArtQuiz3. (Go to the next picture.)



There isn't any "next picture," but here's the next link on your journey, which is the Reports Submenu, or you can go back to the Index page.


















































































I did the one click and that's why you are here. All nine quizzes had at least 20 questions from which the header would select 10. Sometimes there were two headers: one for 7 multiple-choice questions and one for 3 short-answer questions. My ArtUnitQuiz had 11 pages, so that's more than 250 questions. I had to go through each page to kill the headers. On page 8 was one.

I deleted it then had to go through the "Is that your final answer?" and "Are you sure that it's your final answer?"

After the confirmation, I was taken back to page 1 of the questions!!!!!! (If you're on the first page and delete, you're taken to the top of the page. That's not so bad, but it is annoying.) My question is "Why can't I delete and Quiz just leave me where I was?" The answer is that the confirmation is a separate page rather than an Alert. Because of my experience, I think it is best to click 20+ times on a page.

I'll take you back to where you were.