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ExamView: Creating Tests (Using Banks)

You can create tests two ways: using the Wizard feature or from scratch. If you choose from scratch, there are selection options from which you can customize your test.

Using the Wizard

1. Open ExamView Test Builder (From ExamView Test Generator, just go to File>Switch to Test Builder)

2. When the window appears, click on Create a new test using a wizard

3. Name the test and click Next

4. Find the location of the banks you would like to use, select the bank and click Select


5. The bank or banks will appear in the lower window Click Next

6. Identify how many questions of each type you would like on the test. Click Next

7. Read the summary and click Finish 8. Go to File and Save As 9. Enter a name for your test 10. Click Save

From Scratch

1. Open ExamView Test Builder (From ExamView Test Generator, just go to File>Switch to Test Builder)

When the window appears, click on Choose Create a new test from scratch


• You will be given several options – Randomly, From A List, While Viewing, By

Standard, By Criteria, All Questions.

o Generally, you will want to use While Viewing, By Standard or By

Criteria. While Viewing allows you to see the question and check a box if

you want the question. By Standard or By Criteria allows you to sort

questions based on the Information you associated with the questions

when creating the bank such as: difficulty level, state or local standard,

learning objective, keyword etc.

o Choose whichever option suits you for creating this particular test.

• Exam View will now prompt you to identify which bank you would like to pull test

questions from. (You must have placed your bank of questions in the Banks

folder for them to appear at this level). If you have not place your banks in the

correct folder. Close out this screen, close Exam View, move the bank into the

correct folder and begin again.


o Click on the bank folder you want and choose select. It will now move

to the bottom box. Notice to the right the screen will show you the

number of banks selected and the total number of questions in the

banks.

o Now click on next to move the next screen. This next screen will ask

you to further identify which questions you want on in the test. These

next screens will vary depending on how you chose to add your

questions to the test - While Viewing, By Standard or By Criteria.

o When finished selecting your questions click on Finish.

• At this point you should have some questions in your test.

o If you would like to have questions from a DIFFERENT Bank you may go

to the menu, choose Select and repeat the process you did above. There

is no limit to the number of banks you may use to select questions from

on any given test.

• If you include a question and decide later you don’t want the question on the test

or you need to edit the question or answer click on the question and Exam View


will highlight the question in yellow. Now, choose either the edit or delete button

in the lower left. If you choose edit, notice your editor screen comes up allowing

you to make changes to the question. Any changes you make will only be

recorded for this test and NOT in the question bank. If you want to change

the question permanently, use the editor in the Question Bank view to make

permanent changes.

• Now that you have all the questions in your test you may manipulate the

questions.

o Under the menu button Question you may choose to reorder or

scramble, assign points, edit the narrative or adjust the number of choices

for the questions.

o Under the menu button Test you may add student directions, headers,

footers, choose a layout or style. You can even choose a test version if

you are planning to give multiple versions of the same test. The test may

also be translated into Spanish if this feature has been used when

creating the test items. (This option is only available with some textbook

banks)

o Under menu button File you can choose to publish the test online. (.eot

file) Use the online test wizard to set your criteria by clicking the

appropriate radio button and then clicking Next until all options have been

identified. Don’t forget if you are planning to present the test on a LAN

(local area network) you will need to save it on your LAN on the student

drive.

• Be sure to Save your test for retrieval later. The first time you save go to File

then Save As. Give your test a name and identify where you want the file to be

saved. Remember to save in the Test folder inside the Exam View folder on the

C-drive. All subsequent saves can be done for this test by clicking on the Save

icon on the menu bar OR going to File and then Save.

Print a Test

1. Go to File and Print Test 2. Select the number of versions of tests you would like to print. Select more than

one only if you would like scrambled versions of the test. When you are finished selecting the number of versions to print, click “OK"

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