Question Library

    The Question Library is a central repository that stores and archives questions which can be shared and reused by all assessment tools within a course. You can create multiple collections within the Question Library to organize your questions by type and topic, making it easier for you to find questions for your quizzes, surveys, and self assessments.

    Options for Creating Quiz Questions

      Option 1: Creating quiz questions from within the Quiz Library

      Note: As a best practice, we recommend that you create all quiz questions within the Question Library. This enables you to reuse questions in various quizzes, surveys, and self assessments.

      1. Do one of the following:

        • On the Manage Quizzes page, click Question Library from the tool navigation. Questions in the Question Library are shared between Self Assessments, Quizzes, and Surveys.

        • While editing or creating a quiz, click Add/Edit Questions in the Layout/Questions tab.


      2. In the Question Library or the Add/Edit Questions area of the Quiz tool, select the question type or information item you want to create from the New button.


      Option 2: Creating questions with the D2L Quiz Question CSV Template

      1. On the Manage Quizzes page, click Question Library from the tool navigation.


      2. Click Import.


      3. From the Import Source drop down menu, select From a Desire2Learn Text Format File.




      4. To download the CSV template, click the CSV Sample File link and Save the template file to your computer.





      Option 3: Creating specific format questions with a D2L Specific Format CSV Template

      Question Format Type (CSV Templates):



      Option 4: Creating quiz questions with D2L Question Import Tool

      UW Madison’s D2L Question Library CSV File Generator is designed to help D2L users create the correct CSV (comma separated value) file format for importing questions into the Desire2Learn Quiz Library. Basically, you can create quiz questions in MS Word or any other text editing program and then copy and paste them into the importer tool. The tool will then export the questions as a (D2L compatible) CSV file.