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Once a quiz has been added to the course and the [[Quiz settings]] established,the teacher can start to build the quiz. The teacher can use the Navigation menu to get to the quiz's "info" link or click directly on the Quiz name on the course's home page.   Here is a quiz just after it was created:
==How a Moodle quiz works==
{{Note|If you're new to quiz creation, try the [[Quiz quick guide]] first.}}
Once a quiz has been added to the course and the [[Quiz settings]] established,the teacher can start to build the quiz. The teacher can access the quiz to edit the questions by clicking directly on the Quiz name on the course home page or by clicking "Edit quiz" in ''Administration>Quiz administration.''  (You can also make questions in the [[Question bank]] without first creating a quiz. These questions may then be used later.)


[[{File:Quiz_info_editing_new_21.PNG|frame|center|A blank quiz in 2.1 ready to be built]]
{|
|  [[File:editquiz.png|thumb|400px|Accessing the quiz to add or edit questions]]


You may want to look at [[Quiz preview|previewing]] an existing quiz or editing questions in the [[Question bank]].
|}


==The basic ideas of quiz-making==
==Adding questions==
The basic idea is in building a quiz is to add questions from the question bank, organize them by page and determine the value of each question. 


There are several ways to add questions.  From the editing quiz tab, the teacher can add question by using the "Question bank contents {Show)" link to find an existing question or use the "Add a question" button to create a new question that is automatically added to the question bank.
Once you have accessed the quiz editing screen as above, you can add questions from a number of locations:


In the question bank you can create categories, which are similar to folders in your computer file system. You can use Categories to create a hierarchy for organising your questions. Depending upon permissions, you might have access to questions created for other courses by other teachers in the question bank.
#Click the 'Add' link as in the screenshot below. (''Note that in the US, the term 'marks' is replaced by 'points'.'')
#When it opens up, choose either to add a new question, to select a question from the question bank or to add a random question.


You can use random questions so that different students get different questions, or so that one student gets different questions each time they attempt the quiz. When a student starts an attempt at the quiz, the random question will be replaced by an actual question, picked at random from a certain category in the question bank.


===A paper quiz example===
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As an example, think of the quiz like a simple traditional paper test. You have a blank piece of paper in front of you and an overall plan for the quiz.  You may have a filing cabinet next to you with all the questions you or other teachers have written for your course, your department or school.  When you decide to add a new question, you will decide what type of question it is going to be.  Or you can go to the filing cabinate (Question bank) that has individual questions neatly organized and look at it.  You will then start typing the question(Question text) and its answers (Choices) according to it's type. You will make a side note of the correct answer(s), determine how much full or partial credit (grade) you will give for each answer and how much the question is worth in your quiz. When you are done with a question, you go onto the next question and repeat the process. 
| [[File:newaddquestion.png|thumb|450px|Adding a question]]


In our paper example, we did not mention that every question gets written on its own form and is always put in the filing cabinet filled with questions.  When you created a question, you might have thought about hints you could give your students in class about each question, or what you would like to tell the student about their answer. Moodle has a place to record these kinds of things if you want to use them.
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Your overall plan for the paper quiz, probably will include how many points it is worth.  Most teachers like to write the score on the students exam, with some sort of note based upon the score.  As part of the quiz plan, the teacher has decided what kind of grading system they will use or not use.  Moodle can store this information in its "Update settings" area.


While in theory is possible for a teacher to create an individual paper quiz for each student, it is not practical because of the required effort.  However, you will discover that such things are possible with less effort by using  different features of the quiz module and the question bank. We will keep it simple but you might be thinking about creative ways to use various settings.


<p class="note">''"This page is still under revision to update it to 2.x.  From this point on the page has not been double checked against a 2.0 Moodle.  However, most of the instructions still apply. Please move or delete this note as necessary--[[User:chris collman|chris collman]] 21:01, 26 August 2011 (WST)'''</p>
===Creating a new question===


==Compiling a new quiz==
1. To make a brand new question, click 'Add' and then '+ a new question'.


===Adding questions to a quiz===
2. From the next screen, choose the question type you want to add and click "Next" ('When you click on a question type on the left, helpful information appears on the right''. )
Once you’ve created your questions, you’ll need to add them to the quiz. There are many types in the [[Question bank]] that you can use. Alternatively, you may choose to [[Import questions|import questions]].  


First use the 'Category' menu to select the category containing the questions you want to add (item 3 in the diagram below).
{|
|  [[File:questionpicker.png|thumb|440px|Selecting a question type]]


The chevrons (<< icons) to the left of the questions are used to add individual questions to the quiz. You can also select several questions using the checkboxes on the left of the question list and then click the "Add to quiz" button at the bottom of the list to add then all at once. If you want to add all the displayed questions then use the 'Select all' link.
|}
<nowiki>[[Image:Quiz.gif|frame|left|This shows four methods of adding questions including adding random questions dealt with in more detail below (Moodle 1.8)]]<br style="clear:both;"></nowiki>


3. Fill in the question form, making sure to give a grade to the correct answer.


===Editing question order in a quiz===
4. Click "Save changes".
Once you’ve added a question to the quiz, they appears on the left side of the screen in the quiz question list. This edit view can only be see when no attempts have been made by students.
<nowiki>
[[Image:Quiz Edit no attempts.png|thumb|center|A quiz in edit mode, where questions have been added, and no students have attempted the quiz. This quiz has random and fixed questions from 2 question categories.]]</nowiki>


You can change the order of the questions with the move icons. You can move a question out of the quiz with the chevrons (>> icons). Of course you can use the edit and preview icons next to any question that will bring up a pop up window.  The teacher can move or reset the page breaks on this screen.
{|
|  [[File:newlycreatedquestion.png|thumb|430px|A question when it has been created]]


Quiz will not let you add the same question to the same quiz more than once and will not display the same question twice to the students when both random and fixed questions are used from a single category.
|}


::Remember if the Quiz setting is set to randomize question order, the order you see in this view will not be what your students see when they make an attempt.
{{ Note| If you have a very complex question, and you want to check it as you go along, you can preview it and then click "Save changes and continue editing".}}


===Grading questions ===
When a question has been created, an icon and words display its type (eg multiple choice). It can be modified by clicking the edit icon (eg [[File:editicon.png]]) and previewed by clicking the magnifiying glass icon.
You will also need to set the grade for each question. You can set the number of points for each question in the Grade column. This allows you to set the relative weight of each question in the quiz. You may want to make certain questions or question types worth more than others. You should also set the 'Maximum grade' for the whole quiz. This does not have to be equal to the sum of the grades for the individual questions. The grades achieved by the students will be rescaled to be out of this maximum grade. After adjusting these grade settings you should click on the 'Save grades' button.


===Adding random questions===
As well as deleting individual questions with the delete (bin/trash can) icon, it is possible to delete more than one question by pressing the 'Select multiple items' button and choosing the questions to be removed:
A random question places a link that will select a unique question at random from a specific question category.  Random questions are selected when the quiz is generated for a specific student attempt.


This means that different students are likely to get a different selection of questions when they attempt this quiz. For example, when a quiz has 10 random questions that draw on a question category with 30 questions.  If a quiz allows multiple attempts for each student then each attempt will also contain a new selection of questions.
[[File:multiplequestionselect.png]]


The same question will never appear twice in a quiz. If you include several random questions then different questions will always be chosen for each of them. If you mix random questions with non-random questions then the random questions will be chosen so that they do not duplicate one of the non-random questions. This does imply that you need to provide enough questions in the category from which the random questions are chosen, otherwise the student will be shown a friendly error message. The more questions you provide the more likely it will be that students get different questions on each attempt.
====Adding responses and feedback====
5. When you add responses and feedback, remember you can expand the toolbar to show more buttons.
 
6. You can continue adding questions this way, clicking 'Add' and '+ a new question' each time.
 
===Choosing a pre-made question===
*If other teachers in the course have made questions, or if a teacher made questions in an earlier quiz, these can be added to the current quiz by clicking 'Add' and '+ from question bank' .
* Click the + sign next to one question you want to add it (1 in screenshot below)
* If you have several questions, or you want to add all the questions, tick the box of each question or the top box (2 in screenshot below) and then click 'Add selected questions to the quiz' (3 in the screenshot below).
* To sort the questions, click the column headings. The default sort order (T) is short for question type. (2 in the screenshot below)
* To ensure all previously made questions are available, make sure to tick the boxes "also show questions from sub-categories/old questions".
 
{|
| [[File:addfromqbank1.png|thumb|350px|Using a previously made question]]
 
|}
 
'''Note:''' It is also possible to import pre-made questions into your quiz, from ''Quiz administration>Question bank>Import.'' See [[Import questions]] for more information. Sample questions are available from the [http://moodle.net/mod/data/view.php?d=1&mode=list&perpage=40&search=&sort=0&order=DESC&advanced=0&filter=1&advanced=1&f_2=Quiz+questions&f_11=&f_13=&f_12=&f_9=&f_8= Moodle.net content database.]
 
===Adding a random question===
As long as you have questions in the question bank, you can add random questions to your quiz by clicking 'Add' and then '+ a random question'.  This might be useful if you have students in a class taking a quiz at the same time, because they are unlikely to get the same questions at the same time. The same question will never appear twice in a quiz. If you include several random questions then different questions will always be chosen for each of them. If you mix random questions with non-random questions then the random questions will be chosen so that they do not duplicate one of the non-random questions. This does imply that you need to provide enough questions in the category from which the random questions are chosen, otherwise the student will be shown a friendly error message. The more questions you provide the more likely it will be that students get different questions on each attempt. When a quiz with random questions is retaken, the random questions will be different from the ones in previous attempts. For a discussion on the behaviour of random questions, see MDL-6340


The grade for the randomly chosen question will be rescaled so that the maximum grade is what you have chosen as the grade for the random question.
The grade for the randomly chosen question will be rescaled so that the maximum grade is what you have chosen as the grade for the random question.


To add random questions, select the question category you wish to use, then use the drop-down menu at the bottom of the Question Bank in the right column. Select the number of random questions you wish to add, and click 'Add'. The random question link will appear on the quiz question list in the left column.
You can add one or more random questions by choosing the number and category in the question bank. Note the die icon to highlight random question selection.
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{|
[[Image:Quiz Random Question select.png|thumb|center|Here we are selecting 2 random question from the "Default for New Features" category]]<br style="clear:both;"></nowiki>
| [[File:addrandomq.png|thumb|400px|Adding a random question]]
| [[File:newrandom.png|thumb|400px|Random question selected for quiz]]
 
|}
 
{{Note|If you add random questions and your category of questions contains more than 10 different questions, when you look at the quiz statistics report related to position 1, it will not show them all on the front page of the report, just a summary, and then you have to click a link to drill down into the details (the report MDL-48092 is about the fact that working out which link to click is too difficult).}}
 
====Quiz question tags====
Note that although it is possible to tag questions, the feature does not currently work. See forum discussion: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194119
 
===Question categories===
Questions can be stored and retrieved from categories in the Question bank. When you make a new question it defaults to the category with the course name. So if you make a quiz in the Senior Physics course, questions will automatically be added to "Default for Senior Physics". You can opt to have your quiz questions in a category of their own ("Quizname") or to add a subcategory.
To add a subcategory, go to ''Administration>Quiz administration>Question bank>Categories'' For more information on question contexts and categories, see [[Question bank]]
 
Users will have access to different categories according to their permissions. For example, a regular teacher might only have access to question categories in his own Physics course whereas his Faculty Head of Science with permissions in all science courses might have access to question categories in Biology and Chemistry as well.
 
==Quiz layout==
 
*You can choose in the Layout section of the quiz settings whether to have a new page for every question or after a certain number of questions.
* You can add a page break between questions by clicking the arrow icon (where the arrows are pointing away from each other) (1 in the screenshot below) A new page will be created. (2 in the screenshot below)
*You can remove pages by clicking the arrow icon (where the arrows are pointing towards each other). (3 in the screenshot below)
 
[[File:addpagebreak.png|thumb|500px|center]]
*You can also change the layout of the whole quiz by clicking the 'Repaginate' button:
 
[[File:repaginate.png|thumb|center|500px]]
 
*Questions may be moved by dragging and dropping using the crosshairs icon: [[File:crosshairsicon.png]]
 
===Section headings===
 
*Section headings may be added to each new page.
*For the first page, click the 'pencil' icon at the top (1) and add your heading (2):
 
[[File:sectionheading1.png]]
 
*For other pages, click the 'Add' link (1) and choose 'a new section heading' (2), and then add your heading as for Page 1:
 
[[File:sectionheading2.png]]
 
*The section headings are displayed in the Quiz navigation block:
 
[[File:quiznavsectionheadings.png]]
 
===Randomising the order questions appear===
 
*The order in which questions appear to the student may be randomised or 'shuffled' by ticking the 'Shuffle' box at the top of the screen:


===Previewing questions===
[[File:shuffle1.png]]
After you have added questions to the quiz, they will appear on the left. Notice the preview and edit icons next to the fixed questions. These will open a popup window.  The move icons will allow you to change the order of the questions (if Quiz is setup to randomize the order, this will not have an effect).  


<nowiki>[[Image:Quiz Questions in this quiz 197.png|thumb|center|This quiz has random questions and fixed questions. Both are drawn from 2 different question categories.]]</nowiki>
*Where questions are in different sections (see ''Section headings'' above), each section has its own 'Shuffle' box to tick. This means that you can mix up questions on one section, but in another section, where their order is important, you can keep them in the order you need them to display:


When you’re done, you will probably also want to preview your entire quiz by clicking on the '''Preview''' tab. This will bring you to the [[Quiz preview]] screen, but in teacher preview mode.
[[File:shuffle2.png]]


===Setting page breaks===
==Making questions conditional upon other questions==
After you have added question to the quiz, they will appear on the left.  You can manually move the page breaks, or reset the page breaks so that a standard number of questions appear on a single page. 


For example, you set the quiz up to show 5 questions per page. You realize that 10 would be a better number.  Change the number of questions per page from 5 to 10 and click on go. The quiz will automatically change the breaks.
*If using the ''Interactive with multiple tries'' or ''Immediate Feedback'' behaviour and with the navigation method set to  'Free', it is possible to make the display of a question dependent on a previous question being answered first.
*The question editing page will display padlock icons to the right of each question:


For example, you want a description on the first page with 3 questions, followed by a page with 10 questions, and a last page of 6 question and a description. The quiz was set up with 5 questions per page. You should add and or move the questions and descriptions in the order you want.  Then move the existing page breaks to achieve the effect you want.  Make sure to turn off "shuffle questions" in the quiz setting.
[[File:locks1.png|thumb|center|400px|Padlocks - all unlocked]]


==After quiz has been attempted==
*If you want to make a question, for example Q2, conditional upon answering Q1, then click the padlock just above Q2:
If one or more students have taken the quiz, you will see a list of all the questions in the quiz and a notice saying that you cannot add or remove questions.  
 
[[File:lock2.png|thumb|center|400px|Padlocks  - Q2 locked]]
 
*When a student accesses the quiz, they will see a message that Q2 is not available until they give a response to Q1:
 
[[File:lock3.png|thumb|center|550px|What students see]]
 
*In the Quiz navigation block, Q2 will be greyed out:
[[File:locksnav.png]]
 
*In the following example, note that, Q1 follows a description, and a description 'questions' cannot be finished. Therefore, Q1 cannot depend on the previous question. Similarly, Q4 follows an Essay question. The Essay cannot be finished during the attempt, so the following question cannot depend on it. Note the lack of padlocks in the following screenshot because of the description and Essay question:
 
[[File:conditionalquestionpadlocks.png|thumb|center|500px]]
 
==Assigning points to questions ==
''Administration > Quiz administration > Edit quiz > Editing quiz''
 
You can set how many points each question is worth by changing the number in the box to the right of each question and you can change the maximum grade by changing the number in the box top right at the top of the quiz. The default is one point per question and 100.00 maximum grade.
 
{|
|  [[File:allquizgrades.png|thumb|450px|Points per question and max grade]]
| [[File:editmaxmark.png|thumb|450px|Edit individual marks]]
 
|}
 
The quiz module will do any maths, so for example, a 2 point question will be  worth 2 times more when the Quiz module determines how many point out of 10 to award the student.
 
==Previewing the quiz==
*You can preview individual questions by clicking the magnifying glass icon.
*You can preview the whole quiz by clicking the "Preview" link in ''Administration>Quiz administration>Preview''
*The quiz works like a real quiz so you can see your grades and any feedback for correct/incorrect answers just as a student would see them.
 
'''NOTE''': ''To get a more accurate view of how a student would view your quiz, it is advised to log in with a  "dummy" student account created by the admin for testing activities. This is more reliable than the 'switch role to student' feature.


You can move questions in a different order, re grade questions, preview an individual question and click on an question edit link that will allow you to directly edit the question stored in the question bank.
*See also the question: 'How can a teacher '-dry run a quiz..?'  in [[Quiz FAQ]]''
<nowiki>
{|
[[Image:Quiz_Edit_after_attempts.png|thumb|center|Quiz after 2 students have made attempts]] </nowiki>
|  [[File:singleqp.png|thumb|300px|Previewing a single question]]
|  [[File:previewquiz.png|thumb|200px|Click to preview the whole quiz]]
|  [[File:quizpreviewed.png|thumb|200px|Quiz in preview mode]]


:''TIP:'' You can delete all quiz attempts by students and then edit the quiz as if no students had attempted it.  To do this, go to the "Info" tab,  select the Attempts link.  This will present a list of students and their scores.  Use the check box on the left of each student and the delete button/menu item.
|}


:''TIP:'' There are several ways to deal with bad questions in a quiz.
==After quiz has been attempted==
If one or more students have taken the quiz, you will see a list of all the questions in the quiz and a notice saying that you cannot add or remove questions.
 
You can change the order of questions, regrade them, preview an individual question and click on an question edit link that will allow you to directly edit the question stored in the question bank.
{{Note| You can delete all quiz attempts by students and then edit the quiz as if no students had attempted it.  To do this,click the quiz name and then the Results link in the Administration block.  This will present a list of students and their scores.  Click "Select all" and then "Delete selected attempts".}}
===Dealing with faulty questions===
There are several ways to deal with "bad" questions in a quiz.
::*Change the grade for the bad question to 0 in the quiz.   
::*Change the grade for the bad question to 0 in the quiz.   
::*Edit the question, changing what you will accept as a correct answer, then regrading the exam.  Remember when changing a question that the next time it is used it will be as it was in the last edit.  Also, regrading will only effect one quiz at a time.     
::*Edit the question, changing what you will accept as a correct answer, then regrading the exam.  Remember when changing a question that the next time it is used it will be as it was in the last edit.  Also, regrading will only affect one quiz at a time.     
::*You can edit the question to explain the situation to the student and then you can set the grade for the question to zero. After you make such changes you should regrade the quiz by clicking on the '''Results''' tab and then the '''Regrade''' tab.  This will change the grade for all students who have taken the quiz so far.  Remember, if the question is used by another quiz, your "explanation" will appear as part of that quiz.  
::*You can edit the question to explain the situation to the student and then you can set the grade for the question to zero. After you make such changes you should regrade the quiz by clicking on the '''Results''' tab and then the '''Regrade''' tab.  This will change the grade for all students who have taken the quiz so far.  Remember, if the question is used by another quiz, your "explanation" will appear as part of that quiz.  
::*You can change the grade for the bad question and then move or delete the question from your question category.  The question will still appear on the quiz. Some places do not like to delete any question, but will move them to a "dead" or "bad" question category.  
::*You can change the grade for the bad question and then move or delete the question from your question category.  The question will still appear on the quiz. Some places do not like to delete any question, but will move them to a "dead" or "bad" question category.  
::*When you discover a bad question in your quiz, it may effect the question bank. Remember that a final might be made up of a certain number of random questions drawn from different question categories, the same categories used in a smaller subject quiz. It can be very important do something about bad or invalid questions in a question category when the categories are use in other places.
::*When you discover a bad question in your quiz, it may affect the question bank. Remember that a final might be made up of a certain number of random questions drawn from different question categories, the same categories used in a smaller subject quiz. It can be very important do something about bad or invalid questions in a question category when the categories are use in other places.


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Question bank]]
*[[Question types]]
*[[Question categories]]
*[[Effective quiz practices]]
*[[Import questions]]
 
*[[Export questions]]
[[Category:Questions]]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFnoNNrTx3c How to create a quiz video]


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Latest revision as of 18:00, 13 January 2018


How a Moodle quiz works

Note: If you're new to quiz creation, try the Quiz quick guide first.


Once a quiz has been added to the course and the Quiz settings established,the teacher can start to build the quiz. The teacher can access the quiz to edit the questions by clicking directly on the Quiz name on the course home page or by clicking "Edit quiz" in Administration>Quiz administration. (You can also make questions in the Question bank without first creating a quiz. These questions may then be used later.)

Accessing the quiz to add or edit questions

Adding questions

Once you have accessed the quiz editing screen as above, you can add questions from a number of locations:

  1. Click the 'Add' link as in the screenshot below. (Note that in the US, the term 'marks' is replaced by 'points'.)
  2. When it opens up, choose either to add a new question, to select a question from the question bank or to add a random question.


Adding a question


Creating a new question

1. To make a brand new question, click 'Add' and then '+ a new question'.

2. From the next screen, choose the question type you want to add and click "Next" ('When you click on a question type on the left, helpful information appears on the right. )

Selecting a question type

3. Fill in the question form, making sure to give a grade to the correct answer.

4. Click "Save changes".

A question when it has been created
Note: If you have a very complex question, and you want to check it as you go along, you can preview it and then click "Save changes and continue editing".


When a question has been created, an icon and words display its type (eg multiple choice). It can be modified by clicking the edit icon (eg editicon.png) and previewed by clicking the magnifiying glass icon.

As well as deleting individual questions with the delete (bin/trash can) icon, it is possible to delete more than one question by pressing the 'Select multiple items' button and choosing the questions to be removed:

multiplequestionselect.png

Adding responses and feedback

5. When you add responses and feedback, remember you can expand the toolbar to show more buttons.

6. You can continue adding questions this way, clicking 'Add' and '+ a new question' each time.

Choosing a pre-made question

  • If other teachers in the course have made questions, or if a teacher made questions in an earlier quiz, these can be added to the current quiz by clicking 'Add' and '+ from question bank' .
  • Click the + sign next to one question you want to add it (1 in screenshot below)
  • If you have several questions, or you want to add all the questions, tick the box of each question or the top box (2 in screenshot below) and then click 'Add selected questions to the quiz' (3 in the screenshot below).
  • To sort the questions, click the column headings. The default sort order (T) is short for question type. (2 in the screenshot below)
  • To ensure all previously made questions are available, make sure to tick the boxes "also show questions from sub-categories/old questions".
Using a previously made question

Note: It is also possible to import pre-made questions into your quiz, from Quiz administration>Question bank>Import. See Import questions for more information. Sample questions are available from the Moodle.net content database.

Adding a random question

As long as you have questions in the question bank, you can add random questions to your quiz by clicking 'Add' and then '+ a random question'. This might be useful if you have students in a class taking a quiz at the same time, because they are unlikely to get the same questions at the same time. The same question will never appear twice in a quiz. If you include several random questions then different questions will always be chosen for each of them. If you mix random questions with non-random questions then the random questions will be chosen so that they do not duplicate one of the non-random questions. This does imply that you need to provide enough questions in the category from which the random questions are chosen, otherwise the student will be shown a friendly error message. The more questions you provide the more likely it will be that students get different questions on each attempt. When a quiz with random questions is retaken, the random questions will be different from the ones in previous attempts. For a discussion on the behaviour of random questions, see MDL-6340

The grade for the randomly chosen question will be rescaled so that the maximum grade is what you have chosen as the grade for the random question.

You can add one or more random questions by choosing the number and category in the question bank. Note the die icon to highlight random question selection.

Adding a random question
Random question selected for quiz
Note: If you add random questions and your category of questions contains more than 10 different questions, when you look at the quiz statistics report related to position 1, it will not show them all on the front page of the report, just a summary, and then you have to click a link to drill down into the details (the report MDL-48092 is about the fact that working out which link to click is too difficult).


Quiz question tags

Note that although it is possible to tag questions, the feature does not currently work. See forum discussion: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194119

Question categories

Questions can be stored and retrieved from categories in the Question bank. When you make a new question it defaults to the category with the course name. So if you make a quiz in the Senior Physics course, questions will automatically be added to "Default for Senior Physics". You can opt to have your quiz questions in a category of their own ("Quizname") or to add a subcategory.

To add a subcategory, go to Administration>Quiz administration>Question bank>Categories For more information on question contexts and categories, see Question bank

Users will have access to different categories according to their permissions. For example, a regular teacher might only have access to question categories in his own Physics course whereas his Faculty Head of Science with permissions in all science courses might have access to question categories in Biology and Chemistry as well.

Quiz layout

  • You can choose in the Layout section of the quiz settings whether to have a new page for every question or after a certain number of questions.
  • You can add a page break between questions by clicking the arrow icon (where the arrows are pointing away from each other) (1 in the screenshot below) A new page will be created. (2 in the screenshot below)
  • You can remove pages by clicking the arrow icon (where the arrows are pointing towards each other). (3 in the screenshot below)
addpagebreak.png
  • You can also change the layout of the whole quiz by clicking the 'Repaginate' button:
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  • Questions may be moved by dragging and dropping using the crosshairs icon: crosshairsicon.png

Section headings

  • Section headings may be added to each new page.
  • For the first page, click the 'pencil' icon at the top (1) and add your heading (2):

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  • For other pages, click the 'Add' link (1) and choose 'a new section heading' (2), and then add your heading as for Page 1:

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  • The section headings are displayed in the Quiz navigation block:

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Randomising the order questions appear

  • The order in which questions appear to the student may be randomised or 'shuffled' by ticking the 'Shuffle' box at the top of the screen:

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  • Where questions are in different sections (see Section headings above), each section has its own 'Shuffle' box to tick. This means that you can mix up questions on one section, but in another section, where their order is important, you can keep them in the order you need them to display:

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Making questions conditional upon other questions

  • If using the Interactive with multiple tries or Immediate Feedback behaviour and with the navigation method set to 'Free', it is possible to make the display of a question dependent on a previous question being answered first.
  • The question editing page will display padlock icons to the right of each question:
Padlocks - all unlocked
  • If you want to make a question, for example Q2, conditional upon answering Q1, then click the padlock just above Q2:
Padlocks - Q2 locked
  • When a student accesses the quiz, they will see a message that Q2 is not available until they give a response to Q1:
What students see
  • In the Quiz navigation block, Q2 will be greyed out:

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  • In the following example, note that, Q1 follows a description, and a description 'questions' cannot be finished. Therefore, Q1 cannot depend on the previous question. Similarly, Q4 follows an Essay question. The Essay cannot be finished during the attempt, so the following question cannot depend on it. Note the lack of padlocks in the following screenshot because of the description and Essay question:
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Assigning points to questions

Administration > Quiz administration > Edit quiz > Editing quiz

You can set how many points each question is worth by changing the number in the box to the right of each question and you can change the maximum grade by changing the number in the box top right at the top of the quiz. The default is one point per question and 100.00 maximum grade.

Points per question and max grade
Edit individual marks

The quiz module will do any maths, so for example, a 2 point question will be worth 2 times more when the Quiz module determines how many point out of 10 to award the student.

Previewing the quiz

  • You can preview individual questions by clicking the magnifying glass icon.
  • You can preview the whole quiz by clicking the "Preview" link in Administration>Quiz administration>Preview
  • The quiz works like a real quiz so you can see your grades and any feedback for correct/incorrect answers just as a student would see them.

NOTE: To get a more accurate view of how a student would view your quiz, it is advised to log in with a "dummy" student account created by the admin for testing activities. This is more reliable than the 'switch role to student' feature.

  • See also the question: 'How can a teacher '-dry run a quiz..?' in Quiz FAQ
Previewing a single question
Click to preview the whole quiz
Quiz in preview mode

After quiz has been attempted

If one or more students have taken the quiz, you will see a list of all the questions in the quiz and a notice saying that you cannot add or remove questions.

You can change the order of questions, regrade them, preview an individual question and click on an question edit link that will allow you to directly edit the question stored in the question bank.

Note: You can delete all quiz attempts by students and then edit the quiz as if no students had attempted it. To do this,click the quiz name and then the Results link in the Administration block. This will present a list of students and their scores. Click "Select all" and then "Delete selected attempts".


Dealing with faulty questions

There are several ways to deal with "bad" questions in a quiz.

  • Change the grade for the bad question to 0 in the quiz.
  • Edit the question, changing what you will accept as a correct answer, then regrading the exam. Remember when changing a question that the next time it is used it will be as it was in the last edit. Also, regrading will only affect one quiz at a time.
  • You can edit the question to explain the situation to the student and then you can set the grade for the question to zero. After you make such changes you should regrade the quiz by clicking on the Results tab and then the Regrade tab. This will change the grade for all students who have taken the quiz so far. Remember, if the question is used by another quiz, your "explanation" will appear as part of that quiz.
  • You can change the grade for the bad question and then move or delete the question from your question category. The question will still appear on the quiz. Some places do not like to delete any question, but will move them to a "dead" or "bad" question category.
  • When you discover a bad question in your quiz, it may affect the question bank. Remember that a final might be made up of a certain number of random questions drawn from different question categories, the same categories used in a smaller subject quiz. It can be very important do something about bad or invalid questions in a question category when the categories are use in other places.

See also

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