1. The document discusses how to create item banks and tests using ExamView software. It covers saving banks, creating and editing questions, adding question information, importing and exporting between formats, creating tests from banks, customizing tests, and printing final exams. 2. The key steps shown are starting a bank, writing multiple choice and bimodal questions with rationales, saving questions, selecting questions for tests by criteria, customizing tests with headers and instructions, and printing final exams as PDFs. 3. Customizing question and test styles, carefully importing from other formats, and editing questions in banks rather than tests are emphasized for maintaining question quality and test formatting.

1. Item Banking
Basics
Using
ExamView®
Mohamed Bahr; M.D., Ph.D.

2. Your First Bank

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2. After saving a
bank, open it
from here
1. Start Here
3. Whenever
you have a
bank, make a
test from here
4. After saving a
test, open it
from here

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❶ SAVE FIRST!
❷ SAFEGUARD YOUR
BANK!

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We can
customize many
things.
The more you
spend time
here, the more
professional
your exam will
be!
AND it is self-
explanatory!

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Remove unnecessary info that
you don’t use ever

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The most important settings!
Customize your styles..

12. Your First Question

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Question → New → …

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Allow or lock shuffling of
choices
Save paper and put
answers in one line (4
columns)
Change number of choices
Choose correct answerWrite the
rationale of
answer
(for instructor
only)
Write directly..

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Copy & Paste each
line separately
OR
Copy the whole
question and Press
F7 in ExamView
Question Editor
It will PASTE!
Copy Q from MS Word

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You can insert many things to your question..
But!
Never change format from here,
Use the Edit → Preferences → Styles instead.

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Question
info will help
you choose
by criteria
later on
❸ Press to add a
previously defined
property, instead
of writing it again
❶Press to add
info
❷ Define your
Q info
❹ Add more than
one info using
the symbol |
(SHIFT+)

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SAVE your new Q!
Edit your Q
Delet your Q
Make a copy of
your Q (if a new
Q is very similar
with only slight
modifications)
Rt. Click…

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❶ Rt. Click
on an MCQ
to change
to bimodal.
Or create a
bimodal
from
Question →
New
 A bimodal question is a question that can be displayed as either a multiple choice or a short answer question. Bimodal
questions give you more flexibility when building a test. For example, with a single click of the mouse you can increase the
difficulty level of a test by changing all multiple choice questions to short answer.
What is bimodal Q?
❷ You can
convert
(toggle) it
to short-
answer and
vice versa.

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Very Useful
Commands!

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Finally, save and close.
But you might want to convert to MS Word file

23. Import Utility

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Import Very Carefully!
This is the EXPORTED rtf file.
The best way to import a
CORRECTLY FORMATTED word
file, is to use such an rtf file
already created by ExamView,
and just replace and fill without
changing any formatting
(Paste Keep Text Only).

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Successful Import!

29. Create Your First Test
Using The Bank

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Save and Secure!

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Define Headers and Footers

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Insert field for version. It
updates automatically.Insert field for total page #.
It updates automatically.
Insert field for page #.
It updates automatically.
Insert picture; e.g. College logo

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Define Instructions

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Select Questions – Many Ways!

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Selection by Criteria
(the question info you’ve saved)

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Revise Your Test Before Printing

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Add, Delete, Edit, Reorder, Or
Scramble Your Questions
But Don’t Edit
The Question
Here..
Go to Your
Bank, Edit
There, And
Finally Select
The Edited
Question Here!

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Print!
Print Using
Adobe PDF or Microsoft Print to PDF
And You Got Your Exam in PDF Format!

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Thank You!