Can I delete a question bank from one of my Canvas courses, without that question bank being deleted from my ohter Canvas courses?
I have identical question banks in several different Canvas courses. I have a Developmental course where I work on fine tuning the Interpersonal Communication course which I teach fully online. I would like to delete the question banks associated with earlier editions of the textbook in my Developmental course without the identical question banks beling deleted in the other Interpersonal Communication courses which I teach. Can I do this safely?
1. Creating the question directly in the quiz using the "New Question" button. Questions created this way exist within the quiz so you don't need to worry about them (at least in the quiz where they were created) if you delete a question bank.
2. Using the "Find questions" button to browse your question banks and select a question. When you do this, a copy of the question is imported to the quiz. This copy is independent of the original question in the bank and will not be affected if the bank is deleted.
3. Using the "New Question Group" button and linking to a question bank. This is where you need to be careful. When using this option questions do not exist in the quiz itself; every time the quiz is viewed Canvas refers to the question bank and chooses questions directly from there. Therefore if you delete a question bank that has been linked to a quiz, that quiz will no longer be able to display questions from the deleted bank.
So my advice is before you delete the bank, check all of your quizzes to make sure that they don't include any question groups linked to that particular question bank.