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Create A Quiz in Moodle

Summery

Th steps below will first show you how to create a quiz shell in the Learning Modules area of your Moodle course. Secondly, you will see how to add questions from your course question bank to the quiz shell and finally preview the quiz before sharing with students. You may also choose to watch this 6 minute Quick Quiz Start-up video from Moodle Docs:

In this article you will:

  1. Create the Quiz Shell
  2. Add Questions to the Quiz
  3. Preview the Quiz and Check the Settings

Step 1. Create the Quiz Shell

  • From inside your Moodle course, in the top right corner click on pencil icon to Turn Editing On
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  • In the desired section, click on Add an activity or resource, select Quiz, click Add. 

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  • Fill in the name and details fields, adding instructions for students such as type of quiz,how many times they may take the quiz, or if there is a time limit and other. Scroll down to choose Settings for the quiz or you can come back later to add/edit these. Now click Save and Display and follow Step 2.

Step 2. Add Questions to the Quiz

  • Click on the Quiz activity.
  • Select the Edit Quiz button.
  • Click on the the Add question button as shown below.

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  • And then on the little Add link on the right:
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  • if you are adding questions previously created in your course question bank, click on + from question bank
    • Select the drop down menu under Select a category. Locate the category where you uploaded questions for this quiz (example: Chapter 1)

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    • Click the box to select all the questions in the category OR check just the questions you want to add to the quiz.
    • then click on Add selected question to the quiz (alternatively you can add a random number of questions)

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  • Adjust the points accordingly. No matter how many questions, you can set the grade to be 100 and Moodle will calculate the correct percentage achieved by the students.

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Step 3. Preview the Quiz and Check the Settings

  • Click Quiz at the top navigation to see how the quiz will look to students. Or adjust the quiz by clicking on Settings:

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For more about Quiz, check the Bookstack article list of related topics.

The Data Science Program (IA) has purchased the Respondus Lock Down Browser for use in a limited number of courses in the program. Because this tool is not available campus wide, instructors for these courses are required to submit a ticket to the HelpDesk requesting installation of the Respondus block.


Seek Further Assistance

For additional assistance please contact, Clarkson OIT Help Desk;

Online: Get Help
Email: helpdesk@clarkson.edu
Call: 315-268-HELP (x4357)


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