2. Question Banks are now Item Banks

What’s changed

Question Banks have been replaced with Item Banks
Item Banks are linked to your user account, not just a course — they are available across all your courses
They can be shared and reused across courses, with colleagues having view or edit access
Questions stay linked to the bank (not copied), so updates to a question apply across all quizzes that use it
Item Banks are not automatically copied when a course is copied

Managing Item Banks — two ways to access:

View (read-only): From the quiz builder, use the Item Bank button to browse and pull questions into a quiz. You can see banks shared with you but cannot edit them from here.
Edit (manage): While in the quiz editor (Build), open the ⋯ three-dot menu and select Manage Item Banks. This is where you create, edit, delete, and share banks.

What to do now

When building a quiz, use the Item Bank button in the quiz editor to add questions from a bank
To create or manage banks, go to Build → ⋯ three-dot menu → Manage Item Banks
To share a bank with a colleague or course, open the bank from Item Banks and use the Share option to assign view or edit access
If you need to migrate existing Question Banks, you can contact the Learning Technology Support team for assistance

Key takeaway: Item Banks are central, reusable, and shareable — manage them via the three-dot menu in the quiz editor, and add questions from them using the Item Bank button

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