Quiz quick guide

Moodle's Quiz is a very powerful activity that can accommodate many requirements from simple multiple-choice tests of knowledge at school level to complex, self-assessment tasks with detailed feedback at university and corporate levels. This quick guide gets you started, but if you really want to make the most of everything a Quiz can do, make sure you study the full Quiz documentation.

Before you start

• It's important to understand that, unlike a test on a piece of paper, a Moodle quiz is not just one single item. It is made up of a 'front cover' where you add the criteria for the quiz, such as grading and paging, and the questions themselves. The questions are stored separately from your quiz. This means you can reuse your questions in a later quiz. It also means you could display an empty quiz (a 'front cover' with no questions added) on your course page,so be careful!
• Some people prefer to make their quiz questions separately first and then add them to a quiz 'front cover' later. If you would like that, then look at the section on Question bank or just read on below until we get there!

Set up the quiz 'front cover'

1. In the course where you want your quiz, turn on the editing and from the Activity Choose, select 'Quiz'.
2. Give it a name and if desired, a description telling students what the quiz is about.
3. If you want, you can now scroll down to the bottom of the page and