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What is the Quiz activity?

The Quiz is a very powerful activity that can meet many teaching needs, from simple, multiple-choice knowledge tests to complex, self-assessment tasks with detailed feedback.
Questions are created and stored separately in a Question bank and can be reused in different quizzes.
When creating a Quiz you can either make the questions first and add them to the Quiz, or add a Quiz activity (as below) and create the questions as you go along.

Quiz overview

How is it set up?

In a course, with the editing turned on, choose Quiz from the activity chooser.
Give it a name and, if required, a description.
Expand the other sections to select the settings you want. With the default settings, students can repeat the quiz, moving freely between questions, each on a different page. There is no time limit and scores and feedback display once they have completed the quiz.
To change any of these defaults, and for more information on configuring your quiz, see Quiz settings
Click Save and display.
Click Edit quiz
Click Add and then click '+ a new question' (If you already made questions in the question bank, then click '+ from question bank' or if you wish to add a question randomly picked from a category of questions, click '+ a random question'.)

Choose the type of question you want to add and then click 'Add' at the bottom:
Add your question. For help, see the documentation Question types.
Cick Save changes and repeat the steps for as many questions as you need.
Click 'Save changes' when you have made your question.
If you want, change the maximum grade for your quiz to reflect the number of questions.

How does it work?

Student view

Quizzes are visible on the page once you add them so if you don't want them to see it as you are creating questions, hide it until you are ready.

Depending on the settings, students may see questions all on one page or on separate pages. There will be a block linking to each question.

Students can flag questions to alert the teacher to possible queries.

In order to finish the quiz and potentially see their scores (depending on the settings) students must click 'Submit all and finish' when they reach the Summary of attempt page:

Teacher view

Teachers should preview the quiz to ensure it displays as desired for students:

Grades can be viewed either by clicking the quiz and the link 'Attempts' when students have attempted the quiz, or from the Actions menu top right > Results (as in the above screenshot)

More information

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-{{Quizzes}}
+{{Activities}}
+__NOTOC__
+==What is the Quiz activity?==
+* The Quiz is a very powerful activity that can meet many teaching needs, from simple, multiple-choice knowledge tests to complex, self-assessment tasks with detailed feedback.
+* Questions are created and stored separately in a [[Question bank]] and can be reused in different quizzes.
+*When creating a Quiz you can either make the questions first and add them to the Quiz, or add a Quiz activity (as below) and create the questions as you go along.
-The '''Quiz''' [[Teacher_documentation#Activity_modules|activity]] module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of [[Question types]], including multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions are kept in the [[Question bank]] and can be re-used in multiple quizzes. Quizzes can be configured to allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers.
+{{MediaPlayer | url = https://youtu.be/Gi9qX-5GbwY | desc = Quiz overview}}
-== Features ==
+==How is it set up?==
-In general, quizzes help determine what students have learned. A well-designed test can give critical information about a student's understanding of the material.
+#In a course, with the editing turned on, choose Quiz'' from the activity chooser.
+#Give it a name and, if required, a description.
+# Expand the other sections to select the settings you want. With the default settings, students can repeat the quiz, moving freely between questions, each on a different page. There is no time limit and scores and feedback display once they have completed the quiz.
+#To change any of these defaults, and for more information on configuring your quiz, see [[Quiz settings]]
+#Click Save and display.
+#Click Edit quiz
+#Click Add and then click '+ a new question' (If you already made questions in the question bank, then click '+ from question bank' or if you wish to add a question randomly picked from a category of questions, click '+ a random question'.)
+[[File:quizquideaddquestion.png|200px]]
+# Choose the type of question you want to add and then click 'Add' at the bottom:
+# Add your question. For help, see the documentation [[Question types]].
+#Cick Save changes and repeat the steps for as many questions as you need.
+# Click 'Save changes' when you have made your question.
+#If you want, change the maximum grade for your quiz to reflect the number of questions.
-Feedback about performance and self-assessment are important parts of a learning environment. There are several ways to give feedback to students: on each question or overall. The quiz module can display feedback and scores at different times during the quiz, using the review options.
+[[File:QuizQuickStart100.png|200px]]
-A wide variety of [[Quiz reports]] (in addition to [[Grades]]) are available. Quiz reports not only can focus on a single student's attempt to answer each question, but also can perform a robust analysis of a question's validity based upon aggregated student responses.
+==How does it work?==
+===Student view===
+Quizzes are visible on the page once you add them so if you don't want them to see it as you are creating questions, hide it until you are ready.
-Moodle’s quiz module has a large number of options and tools. For example, quizzes with different question types can be randomly generated from [[Question bank|categories]] of questions. Students can be allowed repeated attempts at a question; they can also be allowed to retake a quiz multiple times.
+Depending on the settings, students may see questions all on one page or on separate pages. There will be a block linking to each question.
-There are different options for [[Editing a quiz|scoring (marks-grades)] individual questions in a specific quiz, [[Adding/updating_a_quiz#Grades_section|grading attempts]] for a quiz and each [[Question bank|question type]].
+[[File:StudentViewQuiz.png|center|600px]]
-Further, different [[Adding/updating_a_quiz#Display_section|display methods]] can even make the same quiz appear different each time. This can be done by customizing the [[Editing_a_quiz#Editing_question_order_in_a_quiz|viewed format]] (by manually setting the page breaks) or by setting the number of questions per page. Questions can be shuffled in regards to presentation order.  Yes, it can be made to look and act like a paper test.
+Students can flag questions to alert the teacher to possible queries.
-When the computer does the work for you, it’s easy to give students a chance to practice taking a test, or to give frequent small quizzes. You can explore how to apply these advantages on the [[Effective quiz practices]] page.
+In order to finish the quiz and potentially see their scores (depending on the settings) students must click 'Submit all and finish' when they reach the Summary of attempt page:
-== Quiz module index page ==
+[[File:Summaryofattempt.png|center|400px]]
-The quiz module index page lists all the quiz activities in the course, organized under four headings:
-# '''Topic''' - the number of the block, in which the given quiz appears
+===Teacher view===
-# '''Name''' - the name of the quiz
+Teachers should preview the quiz to ensure it displays as desired for students:
-# '''Quiz closes''' - the date after which the quiz will be closed
+[[File:TeacherQuizPreview.png|center|800px]]
-# '''Attempts''' - if there have been any attempts at the quiz, you will see the text 'View reports for x attempts (y Students)', 'x' being the number of attempts and 'y' the number of students attempting at the quiz. Otherwise, the field will be empty.
+Grades can be viewed either by clicking the quiz and the link 'Attempts' when students have attempted the quiz, or from the Actions menu top right > Results (as in the above screenshot)
-== See also ==
+==More information==
+*[[Quiz settings]]
+*[[Building Quiz]]
+*[[Using Quiz]]
+*[[Quiz reports]]
+*[[Quiz FAQ]]
-*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&advanced=1&f_46=Quiz+Report&f_98=Third-Party Third-party quiz reports]
+[[es:Actividad de examen]]
-*[[Using Moodle book]] Chapter 6: Quizzes
-*[[:Category:Questions]]
-*[[Quiz tips and tricks]]
-*[https://docs.moodle.org/en/Lesson#Types_of_questions_available_within_a_lesson Questions available in a Lesson]
-[[Category:Modules]]
-[[es:Cuestionarios]]
 [[eu:Galdetegiak]]
 [[ja:小テストモジュール]]

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