diff --git a/mod/qbank/lang/en/qbank.php b/mod/qbank/lang/en/qbank.php
index 4b8138d980f..8fd24af0450 100644
--- a/mod/qbank/lang/en/qbank.php
+++ b/mod/qbank/lang/en/qbank.php
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 $string['addanotherbank'] = 'Add question bank';
 $string['coursecategory'] = 'Shared teaching resources for category: {$a}';
 $string['courserestore'] = 'Course restore';
+$string['createqbank'] = 'Create question bank {$a}';
 $string['modulename'] = 'Question bank';
 $string['modulename_help'] = 'This activity allows a teacher to create, preview, and edit questions in a database of question categories.
 
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ $string['noqbankinstances'] = 'There are no question banks in this course.';
 $string['pluginadministration'] = 'Question bank administration';
 $string['pluginname'] = 'Question bank';
 $string['privacy:metadata'] = 'The Question bank plugin does not store any personal data, core_question automatically tracks all sorts of data for questions.';
+$string['progress_createqbank'] = 'Creating question banks';
 $string['qbank:addinstance'] = 'Add a new question bank';
 $string['qbank:view'] = 'View question bank';
 $string['qbankname'] = 'Question bank name';
diff --git a/mod/qbank/lib.php b/mod/qbank/lib.php
index 4e796e8bd99..09e2b58b6f3 100644
--- a/mod/qbank/lib.php
+++ b/mod/qbank/lib.php
@@ -107,3 +107,40 @@ function qbank_delete_instance(int $id): bool {
 
     return true;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Callback for tool_generator so we can add qbanks to generated courses.
+ *
+ * @param tool_generator_course_backend $backend
+ * @param testing_data_generator $generator
+ * @param int $courseid
+ * @param int $number
+ * @return void
+ * @throws coding_exception
+ */
+function qbank_course_backend_generator_create_activity(
+    tool_generator_course_backend $backend,
+    testing_data_generator $generator,
+    int $courseid,
+    int $number,
+) {
+    // Set up generator.
+    $generator = $generator->get_plugin_generator('mod_qbank');
+
+    // Create assignments.
+    $backend->log('createqbank', $number, true, 'mod_qbank');
+    for ($i = 1; $i <= $number; $i++) {
+        $qbank = $generator->create_instance(
+            [
+                'course' => $courseid,
+                'name' => "Question bank course {$courseid} bank {$i}",
+            ],
+            [
+                'section' => 0,
+            ],
+        );
+        question_get_default_category(\core\context\module::instance($qbank->cmid)->id, true);
+        $backend->dot($i, $number);
+    }
+    $backend->end_log();
+}
diff --git a/mod/qbank/tests/generator/lib.php b/mod/qbank/tests/generator/lib.php
index 5857eb34925..afaa2eaba10 100644
--- a/mod/qbank/tests/generator/lib.php
+++ b/mod/qbank/tests/generator/lib.php
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ class mod_qbank_generator extends testing_module_generator {
         if (empty($record->type)) {
             $record->type = core_question\local\bank\question_bank_helper::TYPE_STANDARD;
         }
+        if (isset($options['section']) && (int) $options['section'] !== 0) {
+            throw new \core\exception\coding_exception(
+                "Attempted to create a mod_qbank instance in section {$options['section']}. " .
+                    "Question banks can only be created in section 0.",
+            );
+        }
         return parent::create_instance($record, $options);
     }
 }