Adding activities

Adding questions to your quiz and setting the pass grade

After you have created all the questions for your quiz go to the Administration block on the left-hand side of the screen and click on Questions.

• On the new page, titled Questions, click on Add and select + from question bank.
• On the pop-up menu that appears, called Add from the question bank at the end, you'll see the questions you have created in a table at the bottom. Just above them is a small square that reads Select questions for bulk actions if you hover over it. Tick this and then click on the Add selected questions to the quiz button at the bottom.
• Your questions will now appear on the Questions page.
• By default each question of the quiz will appear on a new page. You can combine questions onto a page by clicking on the X that appears to the left of the questions. (If you change your mind, you can click on the + that replaces the X.) You can also change the order of the questions by either clicking on or dragging the four-arrowed Move icon. 

As you create or edit questions you can decide how much each one is worth under Default mark.

Having added questions to your quiz, the number listed against Total of marks: is the total number of marks that all the questions in the quiz add up to. To make it easier for learners to understand how well they did, their marks can be converted into a percentage score if the number in the Maximum grade field is set to 10.00 or 100.00.

When a learner completes a quiz they are given both a mark and a grade. For example, in a quiz where the total number of marks adds up to 6.00, if the maximum grade is set as 10.00 then the learner is given a percentage that is easier to understand: 

Marks 4.50/6.00

Grade 7.50 out of 10.00 (75%) 

To set a pass boundary on a quiz that has a maximum grade of 10.00, go to Grade in the quiz settings and change the figure in the Grade to pass field to 5.00 for a 50% pass boundary, or to 7.50 for a 75% pass boundary, etc.