How to add questions to your question bank on Cloudnotte

What is a question bank?

A question bank is a curated collection of various types of questions used in the Computer-Based Testing (CBT) module. The question bank serves as a repository of questions that can be utilized to create quizzes, exams, and assessments within the CBT platform, ensuring a diverse and comprehensive set of questions for evaluating students' knowledge and understanding. By utilizing a question bank, educators can efficiently manage and deploy assessments while providing students with a well-rounded testing experience.

Computer based test screen for admin/teachers

Locate the Question Bank button at the top of the screen. This will enable you navigate to the question bank page

Question bank button

Now that you have clicked on the question bank button, The screen below will enable you select class and subject you want to add questions to. Note: You need to first create your classes and subjects before heading here, and ensure you have assigned them to the appropriate teachers.

Question bank interface

So all you need to do here is to select the class and subject you want to add your questions to. Note: If you have multiple arms in your school, we will only display you the Class Group which is the name of the main class. E.g SS1 will cover for Arm A, B and C. Click here to learn more about class groups and arms

CBT interface when you have selected a class and subject

Once you select a class and subject for the first time, it will show you that you do not have any questions yet, but don't worry. All you need to do is click on Add Question. This will bring out the question input shown below for you to enter your question.

Add new question input

I understand everything here looks a bit confusing, but don;t worry, i'll explain every single thing for you. First, we have different inputs where you can type in your questions but before you proceed, you must create a question section in order to help you group your questions properly. Question sections are useful when it comes to question bank and it is required when adding your question.

The first input is the Question title, this is where you will type your question title, For example, Who is the president of Nigeria?.... The image showed below is an example of the input to add question title

Enter question title input

The next input is where to enter the options for the question. Options are usually set of different options for students to select from. E.g A. Apple, B Cane, C fruit, D Rain... Kindly look at the image below. Note: Click on the input or tap on it to type in your options

Question options

Select Section for your question. Remember section are used to group your questions. Click here to learn more about question sections. Kindly look at the image below to understand the right input.

Question section

The next input is the academic term. Questions are usually tied to academic term so you can re-use them each terms in a new section and can easily know which term this question is for. Kindly look at the image below

Academic term the question is for.

The next input is the correct answer. This is where you specify the correct answer for the question so the system can know the correct answer. Kindly look at the image below

Correct answer option

The next input are not required but they are neccessary which are: 1. Topic: Topics are useful in the case where we need to let the student and the teacher know the topic that they are good at ... Click here to learn how 2. Question Tag: Tags are used to label questions for instance you want to label your Mid term questions, your exam questions and homework questions, so you can filter them when setting exam or homework.. Click here to learn how to use Question Tag

Question Tag and Topic

So now that you fully understand how all the input works in the question bank, your question box should like the image below.🤩🤩

Question box when filled up

All good? What next.... So lets go ahead and save the question.. Its pretty much simple to save the question, all you have to do is to click on the save button beneath the question box. Look at the image below 👇👇👇

Save a question button

Once you click on the save button, Please ensure you get a sucess message letting you know that your question is saved. Look at the image below to see how it will look like.

Saved question status

Congratulations we made it to adding our first question.👏

Note: If you encountered any issue when saving the Question, Dont panic.. Just go through the steps again and if it persists you can send us an email at [e-mail] or use the chat button on your dashboard to send us a message. We reply immediately