How to setup a Quiz activity. – eCreators Customer Support

Step 1. Login and enter into the relevant course

Step 2. Click the cog on the right-hand-side

Step 3. Select Turn editing on

Step 4. Click “Add an activity or resource” from the relevant section

Step 5. Select “Quiz” from the pop-up box.

Step 6. Click “Add”

Step 7. Enter the name for the Quiz activity in the “Name” textbox. It is a mandatory field.

Step 8. Enter a description in the “Description” text area.

Step 9. You can choose to specify timing and timing constraints if required.

Options	Description
Open the quiz	Students can start the attempt only after the specified date and (or) time. To select a date, click the “Enable” checkbox and select the date and(or) time. Before the opening time, the quiz will be unavailable to students. They will be able to view the quiz introduction but will not be able to view the questions. Quizzes with start times in the future display both the open and close date for students.
Close the quiz	Students must complete the attempts before the specified date and(or) time. To select a date, click the “Enable” checkbox and select the date and(or) time. After the closing time, the students will not be able to start new attempts. Answers that the student submits after the quiz closing date will be saved but they will not be marked.
Time limit	If enabled, a time limit is stated on the initial quiz page and a countdown timer is displayed in the quiz navigation block. When the timer has run out, the quiz is submitted automatically with whatever answers have been filled in so far
When time expires (This setting helps you to state the action to be taken when a student fails to submit the quiz attempt before the time expires. If the student is actively working on a quiz the countdown time will submit the answers automatically. If this is not the case then this setting controls the action to be taken.)	There are three options as to what will happen when the time limit is up. Choose the one you need from the dropdown menu: Open attempts are submitted automatically (This is the default) There is a grace period when open attempts can be submitted, but no more questions answered If you select "There is a grace period..." then you can check the box to enable the "Submission grace period" and specify a period of time during which learners may still submit the quiz after the time is up. Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not counted

Step 10. The Grade section helps you to specify the Grade and the attempts criteria.

Options	Description
Grade Category	If you have categories in your gradebook, select the one you wish the quiz to be in here.
Grade to pass	Here you can set a passing grade for the quiz. This may be connected with Activity completion and Conditional activities such that a student will not be able to access a follow-up activity until they have passed the quiz.
Attempts allowed	Students may be allowed to have multiple attempts at a quiz depending upon your requirements.
Grading method	When multiple attempts are allowed, there are different ways you can use the grades to calculate the student's 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 of all attempts First attempt - the first attempt’s grade is the grade earned (other attempts are ignored) Last attempt - the final attempt’s grade is the grade earned.

Step 11. The Layout section helps you to specify the way the quiz is rendered.

Options	Description
New page	This setting will help you to limit the number of questions in each page. This setting is particularly helpful when the quiz is too long.
Navigation method	Choose “Sequential” instead of “Free”, if you want to force the student to progress through the questions in order and not go back to a previous question or skip to a later one

Step 12. The Question behavior section will help you to decide on how the questions behave.

Options

Description

Shuffle within questions

If enabled, the parts making us the question will be randomly shuffled. This settings applied only for questions like multiple choice or matching questions.

How questions behave

This option will allow you to specify the question behavior.

Deferred feedback	Submit the entire quiz, before anything is graded or they get any feedback.
Adaptive mode and Adaptive mode (no penalties)	Allows students to have multiple attempts at the question before moving on to the next question. This behaviour requires that the "Whether correct" box is ticked under "During the attempt" in the "Review options" section, at a minimum.
Manual grading	Used for essay questions (irrespective of what the quiz is set to) but you can now choose to have every question in the quiz manually graded if you wish.
Interactive with multiple tries	After submitting one answer, and reading the feedback, the student has to click a 'Try again' button before they can try a new response. They can be given hints to help them. Once the student has got the question right, they can no longer change their response. Once the student has got the question wrong too many times, they are just graded wrong (or partially correct) and get shown the feedback and can no longer change their answer. There can be different feedback after each tries the student makes. The number of tries the student gets is the number of hints in the question definition plus one.
Immediate feedback	Similar to interactive mode in that the student can submit their response immediately during the quiz attempt, and get it graded. However, they can only submit one response, they cannot change it later.
Deferred feedback or Immediate feedback with Certainty-based marking (CBM)	The student does not only answer the question, but they also indicate how sure they are they got the question right. The grading is adjusted by the choice of certainty so that students have to reflect honestly on their own level of knowledge in order to get the best mark.
Conditional questions	If using the Interactive with multiple tries or Immediate Feedback behavior and with the navigation method set to 'Free', it is possible to make the display of a question dependent on a previous question being answered first. The question editing page will display padlock icons to the right of each question.

Allow redo within an attempt

Enabling this setting means students can try a question again without submitting the entire quiz even if they have used up their allowed attempts.

Each attempt builds on the last

If multiple attempts are enabled, and this setting is enabled each attempt will contain the results of the previous attempt.

Step 13. The Review options section will control what information students can see when they review a quiz attempt or look at the quiz reports.

During the attempt means the review options are available when How questions behave’ has been set to ‘Immediate feedback’, ‘Immediate feedback with CBM’ and ‘Interactive with multiple tries’. The student will receive an immediate response.

Immediately after the attempt means within 2 minutes of the student clicking "submit all and finish"

Later, while the quiz is still open means after 2 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).

Below are the review options available for the above timeframes.

Options	Description
The attempt	Will show how the students responded to each question.
Whether correct	Displays whether the student's response to each question is correct or incorrect.
Marks	Reveals the marks awarded to the student and the grade for the quiz.
Specific feedback	Will show the feedback for the response to the answer as set when adding the question to the quiz. Each response to a question can have feedback for both correct and incorrect answers.
General feedback	Displays the general feedback for the whole question as set when adding the question to the quiz. You can use the general feedback to give students some background to what knowledge the question was testing.
Right answer	Reveals the correct answer to each question, whether the student answered correctly or not
Overall feedback	Displays feedback for the entire quiz as set in the quiz settings.

Step 14. The Appearance section will control the appearance of the quiz

Options	Description
Show the users picture	The students name and picture will be displayed on-screen. Very beneficial for proctored exams.
Decimal places in grades	Number of digits shown after the decimal point while displaying the grades. It only affects the display of the grades and not the grades stored in the gradebook.
Decimal places in question grades	Number of digits shown after the decimal point for individual questions.
Show blocks during quiz attempts	To decide whether normal blocks should be or should not be displayed during a quiz session.

Step 15. Extra restrictions on attempts.

Options	Descriptions
Require password	If you specify a password, the participants must enter the same password before they are allowed to make an attempt on the quiz.
Require network address	You can restrict access for a quiz to particular subnets on the LAN or Internet by specifying a comma-separated list of partial or full IP address numbers. This is especially useful for a proctored (invigilated) quiz, where you want to be sure that only people in a certain room are able to access the quiz. For example: 192.168. , 231.54.211.0/20, 231.3.56.211
Enforced delay between 1st and 2nd attempts	You can set a time (from seconds to weeks) between the first and second attempt of a quiz.
Enforced delay between later attempts	Set a time to elapse before attempting the quiz for the third time
Browser security	If “Full-screen pop-up with some JavaScript security” is selected from the list : The quiz will only start if the student has a JavaScript-enabled web-browser. The quiz appears in a fullscreen popup window that covers all the other windows and has no course navigation controls. (However, it is impossible for a web site to create a browser window that cannot be minimized or moved aside.) The students are prevented, as far as is possible, from using facilities like copy and paste.
Allow quiz to be attempted offline using the mobile app	If enabled a mobile app user can download the quiz and attempt it offline. It is not possible for a quiz to be attempted offline if it has a time limit or requires a network address or uses any question behavior other than deferred feedback (with or without CBM)

Step 16. “Overall Feedback” section allows you to specify a message that will be displayed after a quiz has been attempted.

For example, if you entered:

Grade boundary: 100%

Feedback: "Well done"

Grade boundary: 40%

Feedback: "Please study this week's work again"

Grade boundary: 0%

Then students who score between 100% and 40% will see the "Well done" message, and those who score between 39.99% and 0% will see "Please study this week's work again". That is, the grade boundaries define ranges of grades, and each feedback string is displayed to scores within the appropriate range.

Grade boundaries can be specified either as a percentage, for example "31.41%", or as a number, for example, "7". If your quiz is out of 10 marks, a grade boundary of 7 means 7/10 or better.

Step 17. Common Module Settings

Options

Description

Availability

Hide from students will allow you to make the activity available only for users with permission to view the hidden activities.

ID Number

Setting an ID number will allow you to identify the activity for grade calculation purposes.

Group mode

Groups are set up on the course level. When course group mode is turned on and force is set to no, the group mode can be one of three levels on the activity level: no groups, separate groups or visible groups.

No groups	There are no groups and all students submit their individual activities in one area.
Separate groups	Each group member can see only their groups.
Visible groups	Each group member will work in their group but can also see other groups.

Grouping

Grouping is a collection of groups. When selected, students within different groups but within one grouping will be able to work together.

Step 18. Setting up restrict access on an activity will allow you to restrict access based on a certain set of conditions that must be satisfied by the user.

To setup restrictions click Add restriction.

You will see a pop-up window with a restriction that can be applied to the activity. The option that you see depends on the site and course settings as well.

Options	Description
Activity Completion	Note that this button only appears if you have Activity completion enabled by the administrator in your site, and it is enabled in your course in Course administration > Edit settings > Completion tracking.
Course Completed	Allows students who have or have not completed the course
Date	Prevent access until a specified date and time
Group and Groupings	If groups or groupings are used in the course, it is possible to restrict the activity to a certain group or grouping. If they are turned off for this course and not available, these options will not be present for use as a restriction.
Grade	Require students to achieve a specific grade
User profile	Control access based on fields within the student's profile
Restriction set	Add a set of nested restrictions to apply complex logic

To know more about the conditions click the link below :

https://docs.moodle.org/36/en/Restrict_access_settings

Step 19. Activity Completion allows you to set up different completion requirements.

Options

Description

Completion Tracking

If enabled, activity completion is tracked automatically or manually based on conditions.

Do not indicate activity completion	This will not show checks (ticks) next to the activity
Students can manually mark the activity a completed	Students press the check (tick) to change it. (Note: they can do this even without doing the activity!)
Show activity as complete when conditions are met	The selected completion criteria must be met before the check (tick) will change style.

Require View

When this option is ticked, students have to view the activity i.e. click the link in order to complete it.

You should not turn on the 'view' condition if you have other requirements - this makes extra work for the server and it's unlikely that a student could meet any other conditions without viewing the activity.

Require grade

When this option is ticked, students have to get a grade on the activity in order to complete it. For example, a quiz would be marked completed as soon as the user submits it (so long as it doesn't contain any "essay" questions).

It does not matter how well the student did. Getting any grade will mark the activity completed.

Require passing grade

If enabled the student is marked as completed when he/she receives a passing grade.

Expect completed on

Specifies the date when the activity is expected to be completed

Step 20. Tags allow students and teachers to connect different types of content on the site.

Step 21. Competencies will not be available unless they have been set up at a course level.

Administrators can then set up competency frameworks and add competencies to them. Teachers can add competencies to courses and course activities.

Options

Description

Course competencies

It allows you to search for competencies that you’d like to link to this activity.

Upon activity completion

Choose from one of the following options.

Do nothing
Attached evidence
Send for review
Complete the competency

Step 22. Click Save and return to course.

Step 23. Click the Quiz activity that has been created to add questions.

Step 24. Click Edit quiz

Step 25. Select Shuffle if you would like to shuffle the questions within this quiz activity into a random order.

Step 26. Click Add and choose the relevant option from the list

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Options	Description
A new question	Choose to add a new question
From question bank	Choose to select a question from the question bank
A random question	Choose to select a random question from the question bank

Step 27. When you Choose to add “a new question”, a pop-up box will appear with question types. Select the relevant question type and click Add.

Options	Description
Multiple Choice	With the Multiple Choice question type, you can create single-answer and multiple-answer questions
True/False	A simple form of multiple choice questions with just the two choices 'True' and 'False'.
Matching	The user will be allowed to match the correct answers with each question
Short answer	This question type will allow the user to type a short answer to the question. It will be graded by comparing against various model answers, which may contain wild cards.
Numerical	This question type will allow the users to give numerical answers that are graded by comparing against model answers possibly with tolerances
Essay	This question type will allow the users to upload a file or enter online text. This needs to be graded manually.
Calculated	This question type will help you create numerical questions where the numbers used will be substituted with individual values when the quiz is taken.
Calculated multichoice	Calculated multichoice questions are like multichoice questions where elements can include formula results from numeric values that are selected randomly from a set when the quiz is taken.
Calculated simple	A simpler version of calculated questions that are like numerical questions but with the numbers used are selected randomly from a set when the quiz is taken.
Drag and drop into text	This question will allow the users to drag and drop the missing words in a question.
Drag and drop markers	Markers are dragged and dropped onto a background image.
Drag and drop onto image	Images or text labels are dragged and dropped into drop zones on a background image.
Embedded answers	These very flexible questions consist of a passage of text that has various answers embedded within it, including multiple choice, short answers, and numerical answers
Random short answer matching	Similar to a Matching question, but created randomly from the short answer questions from a particular category.
Select missing words	Students select a missing word or phrase from a dropdown menu
Description	This type allows you to print some text without requiring to answer. Eg. To add instructions.

The below link will give you more details of the question types.

https://docs.moodle.org/36/en/Question_types

Step 28. If other teachers in the course have made questions, or if a teacher made questions in an earlier quiz, these can be added to the current quiz by clicking “From question bank”

Select the questions from the list and click “Add selected questions to the quiz”.

Step 29. “A random question“ option will allow the quiz to pick up random questions from the existing categories.

To successfully add random questions to a quiz you must have enough unused questions in your question bank to avoid reusing questions already added to the quiz.

Step 30. Once you create/select/generate questions, you will be redirected to the Editing Quiz page with the list of all questions.

Step 31. Based on the questions and grades entered, you can enter the Maximum grade that can be awarded for this quiz using the text field provided.

Once you enter the maximum grade, click Save.

Step 32. With the “Repaginate” button, you can select the number of questions to appear on each page.

To Repaginate, click “Repaginate” button, select the number of questions and click Go

Step 33. Click the “Select multiple items” button to select one or multiple questions and do a bulk delete if required.

Step 34. Once you have added the questions, you can go back to the quiz and click “Attempt quiz now” to preview the quiz.

Also please note that, once a quiz has been taken by one student or more, you cannot remove any question from the quiz.

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