Adding activities

Creating questions

Having clicked on Save and display you should now see the front page of your quiz a screen with the title you gave it:

[Name of quiz]

Grading method: Highest grade

Grade to pass: 8.00 out of 10.00 

There'll also be an Add question button and a note that no questions have been added yet.

Go to the Administration block on the left-hand side of the screen and click on Question bank, and then Questions.

On the new screen, Question bank, click on the Create a new question ... button. This opens a pop-up box, Choose a question type to add.

Creating a quiz that uses more than one question type will provide more variety and a bigger challenge for your learners.

• For each question type, don't change the Category at the start of the form but make a note of what it says – you'll need this later.
• The Question name isn't the question itself – it's a reference to which question it is. If you were to have more than one quiz on your course, it would be bad practice to type 'Question 1' here, because you wouldn't know which quiz it was Question 1 for. So for example, assuming you've given your quiz the title 'Final quiz', if you were creating the first question for it you would type 'Final quiz question 1' here.
• You don't need to include a question number in the Question text field – that will appear automatically.
• After you save the question you will go back to the Question bank. You'll be able to see the question you have just created in a table – the name you gave it under Question name will appear in the third column. 

More details on the types of questions available can be found on Moodle’s website and the following guidance shows you how to add recommended question types that are popular on OpenLearn Create courses. Creating a quiz that uses more than one question type provides more variety and a bigger challenge for your learners.