Adding activities

Setting up a new quiz

To add a quiz to your course, switch editing on, go to your course’s homepage and click on the + Add an activity or resource button.

This will give you a screen full of options. Click on the Quiz icon to open the New Quiz page.

Enter the name for the quiz activity and (if you require one) a short description of it in the Name and Description fields. This is where you can explain the purpose of the quiz and how it works, whether the quiz has a pass grade (and if so, what the pass grade is, for example 50%) and whether the learner can attempt the whole quiz more than once (and therefore, if there is any enforced time delay between attempts).If you want this description to appear on your course homepage just below the link to the poll, you can tick the Display description on main page tickbox.

There’s a variety of settings for creating a quiz, each with a help icon that includes more information.

• Timing includes options for whether you want to limit the time that the quiz is available.
• Grade includes grading criteria, if this is relevant for your quiz. If your quiz has a pass grade, you can set it later when all the quiz questions have been set up. If there is no grade to pass, you can set it as 0.00 in Grade to pass.
• Layout defines whether questions start on a new page and whether learners have to answer questions in order.
• Question behaviour defines how learners interact with questions during the quiz. For information, all courses on OpenLearn use the Interactive with multiple tries setting.
• Review options defines how and when a learner can review their quiz. In a quiz with the Interactive with multiple tries setting, the following options are selected:
  • During the attempt: Whether correct, Marks, Specific feedback, General feedback.
  • Immediately after the attempt: The attempt, Whether correct, Marks, Specific feedback, General feedback, Overall feedback.
  • Later, while the quiz is still open: The attempt, Whether correct, Marks, Specific feedback, General feedback, Overall feedback. 
• Appearance includes further settings for the quiz.
• Safe Exam Browser is a customised web browser. Your course won’t need this.
• Extra restrictions on attempts is where you can set a time delay between quiz attempts to encourage learners to review the course content material before they attempt the quiz again.
• Overall feedback can be used to provide different feedback at various grade boundaries. For example, you could write a congratulatory message for learners with a score above the pass grade boundary and a message encouraging them to revisit the course material and try again if they scored below the pass grade boundary.
• Common module settings includes availability and language options, and is also relevant if your course uses groups.
• Restrict access includes the option to add restrictions, if for example you only want your quiz to be available after a certain date, or after a learner has completed another action. 

Click on the Save and display button. Now you've set up a quiz you can add some questions to it.

Note that you can edit the quiz’s settings at any time before making it available to learners; editing the settings after that may cause problems for any learners who have already completed it.