Importing Test Questions via File to Ultra Course View

For more information about Uploading Questions, visit the Blackboard Support Center page.

For more information about Question Types, visit the Blackboard Support Center page.

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Download a Sample Test file

1. In Excel, click File on the top menu. [view screenshot]
2. Click Save As on the left column. [view screenshot]
3. Name the file as you wish.
4. Click the dropdown arrow for the file type options.
5. Choose Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt).
6. Click Save. [view screenshot]

1. Navigate to your Ultra course.
2. Click the plus sign on the top left of the page. [view screenshot]
3. From the dropdown menu, click Create. [view screenshot]
4. Under Assessment, click Test. [view screenshot]
5. Click the plus sign in the middle. [view screenshot]
6. From the dropdown menu, choose Upload questions from file. [view screenshot]
7. Select your .txt file to upload.
8. Once it is processed, the questions will show up in the test page.
9. As default, the point would be set as 1. Adjust the point as you wish. [view screenshot}

You can import a bank if you have one from a required textbook that shares question banks with you, or for importing exported banks from previous or other courses. Learn more in the video or in the steps that are after the video.

1. When in the ‘Manage Banks’ menu, select the ‘Import’ option.
2. You will be prompted to select the Question Bank from your computer; this file should be a .zip file.
3. As the file imports, you can view the supported question types. You’ll receive a success message when the file imports successfully. You’ll also receive a message if the file or some question types weren’t uploaded.
   • You may need to refresh the page to see these messages if they don’t appear after a longer period of time (a minute or two).
4. The most recently imported bank appears first on the list. An exclamation icon appears in banks where one or more unsupported questions were removed.
5. Please note that these are the supported question types appear in a question bank after import:
   • Calculated Formula
   • Calculated numeric
   • Essay
   • Fill in the Blank
   • Fill in Multiple Blanks
   • Hot Spot
   • Likert
   • Matching
   • Multiple Choice
   • Multiple Answer
   • True/False
6. You may receive some messages after an import, and these are what they mean:
   • Unsupported question types were removed: Only supported questions in this file appear in the Question Banks section on the Reuse Questions page.
   • The bank wasn’t imported as no compatible questions were found: No questions in this file appear in the Question Banks section on the Reuse Questions page. The question bank isn’t added to the Question Banks page.