Title: 3.3 Quizzes
Course: Certificate in Online Education

How Moodle quizzes work

With Moodle you can easily create online quizzes, using a wide variety of question types and many different options as to how and when feedback is given, how the quizzes are graded and shuffling of the questions.

There are 3 main steps to creating a quiz in Moodle:

1) create the quiz object
2) create questions
3) add the questions to the quiz

When you create questions, they are added to a question bank, so they may be used in multiple quizzes at different points in your course, or even in different courses you teach.

A quiz may contain questions of different types, such as multiple choice, long answer, true/false and many more. Most of the answers can be automatically graded, with the notable exception being long answer, where you will still need to grade each response manually.

Creating your quiz

The first step is to create your quiz, to which you will add questions later. Here you will create the general format for your quiz, when the students are able to take the quiz, if they are allowed to retry (and how many times they can retry), when they receive feedback etc.

To create your quiz, you first need to 'turn editing on', then select 'quiz' from the the 'add an activity...' drop down options:

You will then see the create quiz form:

For now we'll leave all the options as their defaults, you can come back later if you want to change these. Most of the quiz options should be self explanatory, but if you need further information on any of the options, then use the Moodle help icons next to each setting.

Just enter a name for your quiz, then click on the 'save and display' option at the bottom of the page and we can start adding questions.

Creating questions

On the quiz you will see the page is divided into two. On the left will be the questions currently on this quiz (there won't be any yet as we haven't created any questions) and on the right hand side, you can create different types of questions as well as use categories to help organise your questions.

The video below shows you how to create a new multiple choice question:

The end of the video also shows how you can add a question to your quiz, and preview your quiz, we'll look at each of these now in more detail.

Constructing your quiz

Once you have created some quiz questions, you will need to add them to your quiz. One the right hand side of the page, you should see the list of questions you have created and one the left are the questions currently in your quiz:

Select the questions you would like to include in your quiz, then clicking on the 'add to quiz' button. You will then see which questions are in your quiz:

Once the questions are on your quiz, you can reorder them, or you can remove them.

Preview, testing and viewing the results

So now you've created a quiz with some questions, but you'd like to see what it will look like to a student. You could log in with a test student account, or you could just click on the 'preview' tab:

This allows you to view your quiz as a student will see it. You should check that you have set up all the quiz questions correctly. To then see the results from those students who have completed the quiz, click on the 'results' tab:

You can then see all the students attempts at your quiz:

We've only been able to show a small collection of the settings and options available for Moodle quizzes. The quiz module is very flexible so you just need to try to find what works well for you and your students. Perhaps you only need short self-test type quizzes, or maybe you want to try and run a whole exam online?