Using Question Pools in Blackboard Ultra

Who is this guide for?

USA Faculty and Support Staff

What can this guide help with?

This guide will walkthrough adding a pool to a Blackboard Exam, and how to add questions to an existing pool within an exam. A pool is a collection of questions that are added to an exam. This collection is randomly shown to students, and can all be set to the same point value.

• You choose the number of questions from a pool to display to students. For example, you can show 3 questions out of 50. The questions are then randomly distributed so each student sees a different set of 3 questions.
• You can display all the questions in a pool. Questions appear in a random order for each student.
• After you make your selections, you set the same points possible for all questions in the pool.
• You can delete questions in a pool. The question is removed from the pool, but not deleted from your course.
• In the student view, questions randomly selected from a pool appear just as other questions do. Students won't know the questions are from a pool.

Guide - Adding a Pool to an Exam

 

Guide - Add Questions to an Existing Pool