Creating Questions

Creating a Category for Quiz Questions

Once the quiz body has been created, questions must be added to it. However, it is a good practice to first create a category for quiz questions. Creating categories will help organize quiz questions and make them easier to locate. Questions listed under various categories can be drawn from and added to different quizzes.

  1. Click Categories on the top bar. #1
  2. Type a brief descriptive name for the Category of the questions and a more detailed descriptor for Category info. #2
  3. Click on the Add button.

Note: Do not change the Publish option to Yes. If this option is changed, all instructors in Moodle will have access to these questions.

  1. Click on the new category name to begin creating questions.

Creating Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Click Questions on the top bar.
  2. Select the category to which the question will belong. Next to the Create new question drop-down menu select Multiple Choice. #1
  3. Change the Category from Default to the category you wish to add your question to. #2
  4. Type a description for the question in the Question name text box. This will help you identify the question at a later point, if needed (students will not see this name). #2
  5. In Question text, type the actual question. #2

Note: The Penalty Factor, when set to 1, means participants must answer correctly the first time to get points. A Penalty Factor of 0 means the participant can try multiple times and still get full points. 

  1. Each Choice box represents a possible answer to the question. In the Choice boxes, enter possible answers to the question; if the answer is correct then set the Grade to 100%. For the other incorrect options, leave Grade as None. #3
  2. Click Save Changes once you are done.

Note: After the quiz has been submitted, the student will then be able to see the questions that were answered correctly or incorrectly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creating True/False Questions

  1. Click Questions on the top bar.
  2. Select the category to which the question will belong. Next to the Create new question drop-down menu, select True/False. #1
  3. In Question name, type a description for the question so that you can identify it later (students can’t see this name). In Question text type the statement you want the students to review in order for them to decide if it is true or false. #2
  4. From the Correct answer drop down box, select if the Question text statement is True or False. #3
  5. Click Save Changes once you are done.

True false

Other Quiz Questions Types are:

  • Essay: The student will be able to respond to a question that requires an essay to be written.
  • Matching: The student must "match" the correct answers with each question.

Adding Questions to the Quiz Body

  1. Click Quiz on the top bar. #1
  2. Questions displayed belong to the category currently selected. Check the box next to each question you want to select for inclusion in the quiz. Clicking Select All is a shortcut for checking all of the questions. #2
  3. Click  to add the selected questions to the quiz. The questions will then be added to Questions in this quiz on the left hand side.

Note: Here you can rearrange the order of the questions using the arrows before the questions.

  1. Enter the points that each question is worth in the Grade text box. The maximum grade is the total of all the grade values of each question in the quiz. #3
  2. Click Save Changes once you are done. The quiz has now been created.