Quick-start guide
This quick-start guide takes you through the simplest route to build a course on OpenLearn Create and features a series of checklists of what you need to include. There are also links to the platform's more complex features.
10. Adding questions to your quiz
Having clicked on Save and display you should now see the front page of your quiz a screen with the title you gave it:
Final 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.
There are different types of questions to choose from, but for now, you're going to use just one: a multiple choice question where only one option is correct. You'll need to think of five questions that suit this format.
Scroll down to Multiple (single) choice and click on it to select it. Then click on the Add button.
This will take you to a new screen, Adding a Multiple (single) choice question.
- Don't change the Category 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. Assuming you've given this quiz the title 'Final quiz', type 'Final quiz question 1' here.
- Add the question in Question text. (You don't need to include a question number – that will appear automatically.)
- Scroll down to Answers to add the choices.
- It's best practice (and easier) to always make the first choice the correct answer. (You may have seen that a Shuffle the choices? option is selected by default.)
- Type the correct option into the first text box in Choice 1 and use the arrows to change the Grade from 'None' to '100%'.
- Type three incorrect options into the first text boxes in Choice 2, Choice 3 and Choice 4, without changing the 'None' under Grade.
- Scroll down and click on Save changes.
This will take you back to the Question bank. You'll be able to see your question in a table; if you called it 'Final quiz question 1' under Question name, that'll appear in the third column.
You now need to create four more questions. To do this:
- EITHER: Click on the Create a new question ... button and repeat the process above, making sure that you give each new question a different name in the Question name field. Every time you save a question it will appear in the Question bank.
- OR: In the table that's appeared in the Question bank click on Edit in the fourth column and then click on Duplicate in the pop-up box. The question you just created will appear in a new screen with '(copy)' added after the text you added in the Question name field. Make sure you amend the text from the previous question in the Question name, Question text, Choice 1, Choice 2, Choice 3 and Choice 4 fields.
After adding five questions go to the Administration block on the left-hand side of the screen and click on Questions under Question bank.
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 five questions 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 quiz is now ready! Now it's time to give your learners something when they pass it.
Before you move on
- Does each question have a unique Question name?
- Have you changed the Grade for the correct first option to '100%'?
