# Assessment Question Banks
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## Assessment Question Banks API
**An AssessmentQuestionBank object looks like:**
```js
{
// The ID of the assessment question bank.
"id": 1,
// The ID of the context (course or account) the question bank belongs to.
"context_id": 2,
// The type of context (Course or Account).
"context_type": "Course",
// The title of the question bank.
"title": "Chapter 1 Questions",
// The workflow state of the question bank.
"workflow_state": "active",
// The number of questions in the bank.
"assessment_question_count": 10,
// The combined context type and ID.
"context_code": "course_2",
// The date and time the question bank was created.
"created_at": "2013-01-01T00:00:00Z",
// The date and time the question bank was last updated.
"updated_at": "2013-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
```
**An AssessmentQuestion object looks like:**
```js
{
// The ID of the assessment question.
"id": 1,
// The order of the question.
"position": 1,
// The ID of the question bank this question belongs to.
"assessment_question_bank_id": 3,
// The date and time when the assessment question was created.
"created_at": "2013-01-23T23:59:00-07:00",
// The name of the question.
"question_name": "Prime Number Identification",
// The type of the question.
"question_type": "multiple_choice_question",
// The text of the question.
"question_text": "Which of the following is NOT a prime number?",
// The maximum amount of points possible received for getting this question
// correct.
"points_possible": 5,
// The comments to display if the student answers the question correctly.
"correct_comments": "That's correct!",
// The comments to display if the student answers incorrectly.
"incorrect_comments": "Unfortunately, that IS a prime number.",
// The comments to display regardless of how the student answered.
"neutral_comments": "Goldbach's conjecture proposes that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers.",
// The HTML version of the comments to display if the student answers the
// question correctly.
"correct_comments_html": "That's correct!
",
// The HTML version of the comments to display if the student answers
// incorrectly.
"incorrect_comments_html": "Unfortunately, that IS a prime number.
",
// The HTML version of the comments to display regardless of how the student
// answered.
"neutral_comments_html": "Goldbach's conjecture proposes that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers.
",
// An array of available answers. Each answer contains id, text, html, comments,
// comments_html, and weight properties.
"answers": null,
// Variables for calculated questions. Null for other question types.
"variables": null,
// Formulas for calculated questions. Null for other question types.
"formulas": null,
// The tolerance for numerical answers. Null for non-numerical question types.
"answer_tolerance": null,
// The number of decimal places for formula results. Null for non-calculated
// question types.
"formula_decimal_places": null,
// Matching pairs for matching questions. Null for other question types.
"matches": null,
// Incorrect match options for matching questions. Null for other question
// types.
"matching_answer_incorrect_matches": null
}
```
### [List question banks](#method.assessment_question_banks.index)
[AssessmentQuestionBanksController#index](https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/blob/master/app/controllers/assessment_question_banks_controller.rb)
**`GET /api/v1/question_banks`**
**Scope:** `url:GET|/api/v1/question_banks`
Returns the paginated list of question banks for a given context.
**Request Parameters:**
| Parameter | Type | Description |
| ------------------------ | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `context_type` | Required `string` | The type of context. Must be either “Course” or “Account”.
Allowed values: Course, Account
|
| `context_id` | Required `integer` | The id of the context. |
| `include_question_count` | `boolean` | Whether to include the number of questions in each bank. |
**Example Request:**
```bash
curl 'https://