Reusable assessment content

Build and approve the Question Bank

Create questions with enough context to review, approve, reuse, and preserve them safely in published exams.

AuthorExaminerAssessment administrator

Who does thisAuthor or examiner; an authorized reviewer approves

Before you startSubject, objective, marks, difficulty, and review policy are known

Successful outcomeApproved question revisions ready for a pinned exam snapshot

Question revision and snapshot flow. Draft questions are reviewed and approved; published exams retain a pinned snapshot even when a later revision is created.

What this means in plain language

A Question Bank is the reviewed source of assessment questions. Approval freezes a revision for use; later corrections create a new revision instead of rewriting what an existing exam used.

Step-by-step

Open Question Bank in the correct institute and bank.
Create the question using the intended type, prompt, answer schema, marks, explanation, difficulty, tags, and objective mapping.
Preview rich content and attachments. Remove unsupported or untrusted markup.
Review duplicate candidates, answer correctness, mark allocation, accessibility, bias, and language.
Submit the question for review, record feedback, and approve only the revision that is ready for assessment use.
Export or import through the approved format when moving content; inspect row errors before accepting the run.

ExamNova Question Bank screen — **Live seeded-demo screen.** Approved and pending questions are reviewed before exam use.

ExamNova permission glossary — **Live seeded-demo screen.** Question creation and approval are separate permissions.

How to know it worked

The question preview matches the author’s intention.
The answer schema and marks validate for the chosen type.
The approved revision is visible and duplicate review is resolved.
A published exam references a pinned snapshot, not a mutable draft.

Common mistakes

Editing an approved question in place after publication.
Approving without checking the correct answer and marks.
Pasting unsafe HTML or inaccessible image-only prompts.

If something goes wrong

If approval is unavailable, check the reviewer’s permission and the question’s current state.
If import rows fail, correct the declared type and answer schema before retrying.
If an exam shows an older version, confirm which approved snapshot was intentionally pinned.

Privacy and security: Question content and answer keys are confidential assessment material. Limit exports and do not place them in public issue trackers or screenshots.

What to do next

Use approved questions to build, schedule, assign, preview, and publish an exam.