Question banks

A question bank is a named collection of monitoring questions. Banks are where questions are created and kept; forms then pull questions in from banks by reference. This means one well-written question can be reused on many forms without being typed out again.

Administrators open the list from the Question Banks link in the sidebar. Senior managers and above can view the page if they reach it, but only administrators get the sidebar link; creating a new bank is administrator only.

The Question Banks list

The page shows a table of your banks with:

Name (a link to the bank)
Questions (how many questions it holds)
A delete control on each row

Administrators can add a bank with New Question Bank, which opens a modal with a single Name field (at least three characters).

Inside a question bank

Open a bank to see its questions. The header shows the bank’s name with the subtitle Question Bank, and administrators get an edit icon next to it for renaming the bank.

The questions are organised under a tab per subject: School, Head Teacher, Class Teacher, Class Teacher Observation and Pupil. Each tab shows an accordion of that subject’s questions. Open a question to see its details and options, with edit and delete controls for administrators.

To add a question, use the New Question button for the subject whose tab you are on. The button is labelled for that subject (for example New School Question on the School tab), and it opens the new-question form with that subject already selected. The fields are the question’s number, Question Text, Short name, Guidance (each at least three characters), and the input type, subject, comment type and “Ask Again?” setting (labelled Verification Type on the form). These are explained in Monitoring questions.

Renaming and deleting

Edit changes the bank’s Name (at least three characters).
A bank can be deleted only while it has no questions in it. Remove its questions first (there is no way to move a question to another bank).

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