Quiz Quick Guide
Quiz Quick Guide
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. 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 activity documentation.
It will not have a time limit and students can take it as many times as they wish, with the
recorded grade being their best attempt.
Each question will be on a different page and they can move freely between previous and
later questions.
Students won't know their score or get feedback until they complete the quiz.
Quiz settings
If you expand the sections in the quiz setup page and click the ? icon and the 'Show more' links, you
can explore alternative settings for your quiz. Here are some popular settings:
Time limit - if you only want to allow students a limited amount of time from when they start until
they must have finished. If, instead you want students to finish by a certain date and time, set
the Close the quiz setting.
How questions behave -Interactive with multiple tries -instead of the quiz being like a test where
students only see their results at the end, this setting allows them to get immediate feedback for
each question and keep trying. (Good for formative assessment.) Learn more about Question
behaviours.
Overall feedback -completing this will give your students customised feedback according to what
grade range they obtained.
4. Add your question. If you need help, click the documentation link at the bottom of your question
page or explore the Question types documentation. Note that students won't see the question name;
it is for your records only.
5. Click 'Save changes' when you have made your question.
6. Repeat steps 2 – 5 for as many questions as you need.
7. If you want to, change the maximum grade for your quiz to reflect the number of questions.
click the quiz itself and then the link 'Attempts =' (where the number is the number of
attempts) - or -
click the quiz and then from the block Administration > Quiz administration, expand 'Results'
and select the analysis you need.