Creating Questions in Inspera

Yes, a Question Set once created can be re-used. The Digital Exams team recommend duplicating your Question Set and then editing, this means there's a clear audit trail of the Question Set used in prior years.

How to duplicate your Question Set

1. Open Inspera (this can be done by clicking on your previous exam within Canvas assignment area)
2. Click on the Author tab
3. In the search bar, type the Question Set name/module name (in this example a ‘demo’ Question Set is being searched for)
4. Find the question set you wish to duplicate and click into the tick box (on the left hand side)
5. An options bar appears along the bottom, click 'duplicate'
6. A message will appear about the duplication, click 'continue'
7. Click into this new ‘copy of’ question set
8. You can re-label the name of the question in the top left corner using the pencil icon.

You can make any changes to the Question set for your upcoming exam.

Yes, a Question Set once created can be printed as a PDF.

How to print your Question Set

1. Open Inspera (this can be done by clicking on your previous exam within Canvas assignment area)
2. Click on the Author tab
3. In the search bar type the question set name/module name
4. Find the question set you wish to print and click on the name to open this
5. Select the print icon in the top right corner
6. On the right hand side click ‘download question set’
7. The download may take a minute or two to prepare, once ready select download now
8. The download will be in your downloads folder

Should you wish to change what is available on your PDF, you can use edit Settings. Once within the Print screen, drop down the settings bar

Settings allow you to:

• remove maximum marks
• remove ‘documents’ or instruction pages
• remove certain questions from the PDF (i.e. hide auto marked questions)

The most commonly used feature for us, is to untick question maximum marks so these are not visible on the PDF.

Yes, as default Inspera’s set so that auto marked questions, with a list of possible options, show these answer options to students in a random order.

How to turn on/off randomisation of answer alternatives

If you’d like to view this (or turn it off) please follow the following steps:

1. Open Inspera (this can be done by clicking on your previous exam within Canvas assignment area)
2. Click on the Author tab
3. In the search bar type the question set name/module name
4. Find the question set you wish to edit/check and click on the name to open this
5. Locate the question, to enter editing options click the pencil icon
6. Click into the marking box to load alternatives menu on the right hand side
7. Scroll down to options and open the drop down
8. Random order of alternatives can be checked or unticked at the bottom of ‘options’.