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Adding a category

You can place questions in categories you create. Categories make it easier to find questions when you want to reuse them later. For example, if you group all quiz questions about trees and woody plants together, you can review those questions as a group when you create the final exam for your course.

There are no default categories; you create categories suited to your course curriculum. Any categories you define are available from every test or survey you create.

To add a category:

  1. Click the course title on the My CourseCompass page.

  2. Click Control Panel from the Course Home page.

  3. Click Assessment Manager under Assessment.

  4. Select a test or survey, and click Modify.

IMPORTANT: If the test or survey is available, you must first make it unavailable in order to add a category and place questions in that category. By doing so, you will lose all answers for students who have already completed the test or survey.

  1. Click Modify next to one of the questions.

  2. Click Add Category in the Options section. If Add Category does not appear, click the Advanced button at the upper right, go to the Options section, and click Add Category.

  3. Click Category Manager.

  4. Enter the text for the new category, and click Add. Review the list of existing categories. The new category appears in the list.

  5. Click OK.

  6. (Optional) Select a category from the list and click Add to add the question to a category. Repeat this step to add the question to more than one category.

  7. Click OK to return to the Add/Modify Question(s) page.