Test Bank Exam Prefs

How to set preferences for a Test Bank Exam

Whether you create a new test bank exam or edit an existing test bank exam, you have the option to set several preferences for the assignment from the Exam Preferences tab. Once a test bank exam is created, the default exam preferences for your account are applied automatically. To change the preferences, click the blue Edit button.

Exam Properties

Set the following preferences in the Exam Properties section on the Exam Preferences tab.

Exam Properties Section

​​📝 Allow Assignment Preference Override

Select to allow instructors to edit the Time Limit/Unlimited Time, Hide Timer, Allow to Pause Exam, and Exam Attempts Allowed when assigning this exam to a course or to a student

⏳ Time Limit

Set the maximum amount of time a student has to take the exam in the Time Limit box. SIMnet will provide a suggested time limit once the SIMnet Online database has enough user data to calculate average response times for each question.

⏲️ Unlimited Time

Select the Unlimited Time check box to allow the student an unlimited amount of time to complete the exam.

⏱️ Hide Timer

Select the Hide Timer check box to hide the exam time from the student while taking the exam.

💾 Allow to Pause Exam

Select the Allow to Pause Exam check box to let the student save the exam, exit, and continue at a later date. Exam results are always saved in real-time regardless of this setting.

🔢 Exam Attempts Allowed

Enter the number of Exam Attempts Allowed, up to 99. The student will see the maximum number of attempts allowed for the exam in the Student Portal.

❔ Random Question Order

To display questions in random order, click the Random Question Order check box. If selected, the list of exam questions will appear in a different order for each student.

🔁 Random Question Limit

To display a random subset of questions, click the Random Question Limit check box and enter a number in the Limit box. When you enable random question limit, the limit is automatically set to the maximum number of questions in your exam. When enabled, it will set all custom question weights to 1.

🙋‍♀️ Filter By Difficulty

Select the Filter By Difficulty check box to filter questions based on their difficulty level.

🔢 Question Attempts

Enter the Question Attempts Allowed, up to 99. This is the total number of attempts the student can make to answer a question, not the number of retries. Objective based questions only allow 1 attempt regardless Quesiton Attempts Allowed preference.

❔ Display Format

Expand the drop-down list to choose between two display formats. Single Page will display all test bank questions on one page and 1 Question/Page will display one test bank question per page.

✅ Correct Retake Allowed

If you have more than one question attempt allowed, and you want students to have the ability to reanswer questions they have already answered correctly, click the Correct Retake Allowed check box.

📋 Display Feedback

To display correct and incorrect feedback to students during the exam, click the Display Feedback check box.

❌ Advance on Incorrect

If you want the exam to move to the next question even when the user answers incorrectly, click the Advance on Incorrect check box. This option is only available if Display Feedback is enabled.

ℹ️ Display Hints

To display hints after incorrect answers, click the Display Hints check box. This option is only available if Display Feedback is enabled.

Exam Results

Set the following preferences in the Exam Results section on the Exam Preferences tab.

Exam Results section

🖨️ Enable Printing

Click the Enable Printing check box to allow students to print the Exam Results page.

🧾 Detailed Feedback

Click the Detailed Feedback check box to include the question list on the results page showing students which questions were answered correctly and incorrectly.

✅ Display Correct Answer

Click the Display Correct Answer to show the student the correct answer on screen after they have answered a question.

📑 Display Submitted Answer

Click the Display Submitted Answer check box to show students the steps they took to answer the question. This applies to both correctly and incorrectly answered questions.

👩‍🎓 Show Study Guide

Click the Show Study Guide check box to display page references from the textbook selected in the Textbook list. The list of textbooks available is controlled by your account Administrator.

Finish Setting Preferences

💾 Save

Click the Save button to save the preferences for the exam.

✖️ Cancel

Click Cancel at any time and any changes to the preferences will not be saved.

🗃️ Make Default

If you modify any preferences and want to save them, click the Make Default button. Next time you create a new test bank exam, these will be your default preferences.