Introduction

The Quiz activity module allows the lecturer to design and build quizzes consisting of a number of Question types, including multiple-choice, true-false, short answer, and drag and drop images, and Essay. These questions are stored in the Question bank and can be re-used in different quizzes in your module.

Just a tip!

• A quiz is made up of two parts: (1) the setup where you add the criteria for the quiz, such as grading and time and date limits, and (2) the questions themselves.
• The questions are stored separately from your quiz in a course Question bank. This means you can reuse your questions in a later quiz. It also means you could display an empty quiz (with no questions added) on your module page, so be careful!

Create the Quiz

To create a quiz, all you need to do is go to your Moodle module and 'turn editing on', navigate to the desired section where you want the quiz to be located, now click on add an 'activity or resource' and you should see a popup window, scroll down to the quiz and add that activity.

Part 1 - the quiz settings

Now you will need to set the start date/time and finish date/time and set the time limit, that more or less it for the settings, click save.

Important Settings

There are a lot of important settings for the Moodle quiz, please explore them, these are some of the more important ones

Open and Close Date and Time

in 'Timing' these dates and times control when the quiz opens and closes, the default will also be to submit open attempts, don't change this.

Timing

In 'Grade' the default for the number of attempts is 1, this is fine, and if WiFi drops or there's a power cut the student will still be able to get back into the quiz and continue their 1 attempt from where they were. You have the flexibility to switch this to 2 or more (unlimited) but this causes issues with the number of attempts which you will have to manually administer after the quiz closes.

Question Behavior

You can shuffle the choices within the questions that are presented to the student, so their options are different, Moodle just shuffles the choices, it always remembers the correct answer, but it just presents the choices to the students in a different sequence.

Review Options

If it summative assessment make sure you turn all these off, they are turned off my default., If the assessment is formative you could turn the review options on after the quiz has closed. 

Part 2 - add the questions

Now you need to add the question from the categories in your Question bank, from your module home page, click into the quiz, then click ‘Edit Quiz’ now over to the right you should see the ‘add’ option click on that and you should see the option to add from a Question Bank or add 'a random question', either way, you will then have to choose which category you want the questions to come from.

Add Overrides

If you need you can add overrides by the student or by groups, you can do this by clicking into the quiz, then click on the small cogwheel over to the right and clicking User or Group Override.

Note: including override means you could allow one group or a student more time on a quiz or more time on an Assignment.

Steps

Step 1 - Add the Quiz Activity

Now you need to add the activity

Step 2 - Now you will need to set the start date/time and finish date/time and set the time limit or any other of the settings you want in place.

Step 3 - Now you need to add the question from the categories in your Question bank, originally the quiz will be blank (no questions)

ON the next screen you can add questions from a question bank or if you require you can add random questions or a mixture of both.

Step 4 - Add user or group override

When the quiz has been created you can also include an override, from the main screen click on the Quiz then click the small cogwheel over to the right and now you should see the option to add the user/group overrides (see image below). You can add multiple user/group overrides.