Adding/Editing a Quiz

1. Quiz Settings

The teacher can allow the quiz to be attempted multiple times, with the questions shuffled or randomly selected from the question bank. A time limit may be set.

Each attempt is marked automatically, with the exception of essay questions, and the grade is recorded in the gradebook.

The teacher can choose when and if hints, feedback and correct answers are shown to students.

Quizzes may be used

    As course exams
    As mini tests for reading assignments or at the end of a topic
    As exam practice using questions from past exams
    To deliver immediate feedback about performance
    For self-assessment

Creating a new quiz is a two-step process. In the first step, you create the quiz activity and set its options which specify the rules for interacting with the quiz. In the second step you add questions to the quiz. This page describes the options you can set for the quiz activity. The page Building Quiz describes how to set up the questions for the quiz.

Quiz options There are a large number of options and your administrator should already have chosen the default values for most of them so that you will not have to modify them for the type of quiz that you use most often. The administrator may also have classified some of the settings as 'advanced' which means that they will be hidden from the set-up screen by default. This can help to keep the screen simpler. You can turn on the display of these advanced options by clicking on the Show advanced settings button. They will then remain visible until you click on Hide advanced settings.

In this Book we will look at:

1 Quiz administration

    1.1 General
    1.2 Timing
    1.3 Grade
    1.4 Layout
    1.5 Question Behaviour
    1.6 Review Options
    1.7 Display
    1.8 Overall Feedback
    1.9 Common Settings
  
2 Group and User overrides