Multipart Questions in the Question Bank Editor

You create a multipart question in the Question Bank Editor by selecting questions for its parts from another topic in the question bank. This prevents you from creating a loop by adding a question as a part of itself.

To create and organize the parts for a multipart question:

Open or Create a topic in your question bank to contain the questions that are the parts of your multipart question. This topic must be distinct from the topic in which you will create the multipart question.
If necessary, add or import questions.

Important: All questions that are parts of a multipart question must be in the same topic.

If necessary, reorder the questions.

Note: The Question Bank Editor inserts the question parts into the multipart question in the same order in which they appear in the source topic.

To create a multipart question:

Open or Create the topic in which to create the multipart question.
Add a new question.
In the Question Type drop-down box, select Multipart question.

Note: If you try to create a multipart question in a question bank with only one topic, the system generates an error message.

It is recommended that you enter a description in the Question Description text field. (The description is used to label the question in the topic. If excluded, the question type is used.)
To use HTML, select the Use HTML check box.
You can add a comment, algorithms, information fields, hints, or a worked solution.
To proceed to the Add Multipart screen, click Next.
Select the radio button corresponding to the topic containing the questions to be used as parts. Click Next.
On the Question Composition & Weighting screen:

To delete questions from the source topic as you add them, select the Remove questions from source topic check box.
From the Numbering style drop-down menu, select the numbering style for the parts of the question.
In the Text box, enter the question statement.
In the Select questions & assign weighting box:

Select the check boxes beside questions to include as parts.
Click the plus and minus buttons to assign the relative weighting of each.

Click Finish to place a copy of your question in the Web site cache and preview your question.

Important: Clicking Finish, does not permanently save a copy of a question to a hard drive. You must save your question bank to your hard drive as a .qu plain-text source file or install the question bank on the class Web site hard drive.