Create a Quiz

Q. 

How do I create a Quiz? Can I create an online exam? What are the quiz question types?

A. 
The Quiz activity module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types, among them multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions are kept in the course Question bank and can be re-used in other courses. The Moodle quiz module has a large number of options and tools, making it flexible. You can create quizzes with different question types, allow students to have repeated attempts at a question or retake quizzes multiple times, and have the computer score it all. User the following steps to create a Quiz.



1. Turn editing on.

2. Select a topic and click Add an activity or resource to open the Activity chooser.

3. Select Quiz and click Add button.

4. Complete General settings. Add a name to the Quiz activity and write a description (optional).

5. Configure the timing elements of the quiz. Determine when the quiz should be opened and closed for participants. Enable Time limit. Control what happens if the Student fails to submit their quiz attempt before time expires.

6. Choose the grading method for the quiz. When multiple attempts are allowed, there are different ways you can use the grades to calculate the students' final grade for the quiz.

Highest grade - the final grade is the highest (best) grade in any attempt.
Average grade - the final grade is the average (simple mean) grade for all attempts.
First grade - the final grade is the grade gained on the first attempt (other attempts are ignored).
Last grade- the final grade is the grade gained on the most recent attempt only.

7. Define Layout settings. Choose whether questions should be shuffled within the quiz attempts. Choose how many questions to display per page.

8. Select Question behavior settings. If enabled, the parts making up each question will be randomly shuffled each time a student attempts the quiz. Select a question behavior.
Deferred feedback - Students must enter an answer to each question and then submit the entire quiz, before anything is graded or they get any feedback.

9. Select Review options. These options control what information users can see when they review a quiz attempt or look at the quiz. reports. You can select to display each option during the following four time frames.
During the attempt: Shown during the attempt.
Immediately after the attempt: Within two minutes of the student clicking "submit all and finish."
Later, while the quiz is still open: After two minutes, but before the close date (if the quiz does not have a close date, this phase never ends).
After the quiz is closed: Means what it says (you never get here for quizzes without a close date).

10. Configure how the information about the user and the user's grade will display.

11. Add Extra restriction on attempts. Decide if you want to require a password for the quiz.

12. Create Overall grade feedback. Overall feedback is text that is shown after a quiz has been attempted. The grade value of the quiz is defined later in the edit screen. By specifying additional grade boundaries (as a percentage or as a number), the text shown can depend on the grade obtained.

13.  Click Save and display. Your quiz is setup. Now time to set grade values and create questions.

14. Click Edit quiz. This link will take you to the next tutorial on how to add questions.