Create a test question

The video below shows how to Create a Test Question in the Original Course View

Step 1: Edit an existing test. 
Access a test in your course:
1. Click Tests, Surveys, and pools from the Course Tools menu in the Control Panel.  (Control Panel > Course Tools > Tests, Surveys, and Pools > Tests or Surveys)

2. Click on Tests

3.On the Tests page, access a test's contextual menu, and click Edit.

Note: For more information about creating a Tests and Surveys refer to the following guide. 
 
Step 2: Select Question type
On the Test Canvas page, form the Create Question menu, select the question type you want to add.

Note: For detailed information about each question type refer to the following guide.

On the Create/Edit Question page, type the question in the Question Text box. Optionally, you can use the content editor to format the text and include files, images, web links, multimedia, and mashups.

Next, complete the Options and Answers area according to the type of question you selected. For the question types that allow for automatic grading, such as True/False questions, type responses for correct and incorrect answers in the Feedback area.

Step 3: Add categories and keywords
The Categories and Keywords area allows you to add metadata values for questions to help organize them for future use (help you easily locate it later in the question finder). You can use the metadata values you create for one question when you create other questions in the same course.

You can add these metadata values to questions:

1. Categories
2. Topics
3. Levels of Difficulty
4. Keywords

Add metadata to a question:

1. In the Categories and Keywords section, select Add to add a category, topic, level of difficulty, or keyword.
2. Type a new category, topic, level of difficulty, or keyword in the box and select OK. You can also type multiple items. Separate each with a comma.
3. Select Choose from Existing to select an existing category, topic, level of difficulty, or keyword. If no choices exist, this option doesn't appear.

Note: For detailed information about metadata values refer to the following guide. 

Step 4: Add Instructor Notes

Use the Instructor Notes section to add notes about the question that are only visible to instructors.

Step 5: Submit
When you finish adding your question select Submit.

The new question will appear at the bottom of the page for the edited test and you have the option to change the point value for each question