Build a Course
Quiz
Create a new Quiz
1. On the MOLE course home page, click Turn editing on at the upper right of the page.
2. In the relevant page section, click Add an activity and in the resulting pop-up, under activities, select Quiz. Click Add.
3. On the Adding a new Quiz page, in the General section, enter a Name and an optional Description.
4. In the Timing section:
Enable and select dates to Open the quiz and Close the quiz.
Enable and set a Time limit, if using.
Select the appropriate option for When time expires.
5. In the Grade section:
Select the Grade category within the Gradebook where you want this assignment to belong.
Set the number of Attempts allowed, the Grade to pass and, if multiple attempts are allowed, which Grading method MOLE should use.
6. In the Layout section:
Select how many questions to be displayed every page.
Click Show more and select, at Navigation method, whether you want to force students to answer questions sequentially.
7. In the Question behaviour section:
At Shuffle within questions, select whether you want multiple choice or matched question options randomised.
Select How questions behave. Deferred feedback (students must submit entire quiz before they see any grade or feedback) and Interactive with multiple tries (students submit each questions and get immediate feedback as they progress through the quiz) are the most common choices.
If you allowed multiple attempts, click Show more and select Each attempt builds on the last, if you want each new quiz attempt to contain the results of the previous attempt. This allows students several attempts to complete a quiz.
8. Under Review options, select what you want the student to be able to see when they view their attempt or report at various stages.
9. In the Appearance section, make choices about how you want the quiz to display:
Do you want to Show the user's picture during the attempt, and on the review screen, to make it easier to check that they are logged in as themselves in an invigilated exam?
How many Decimal places in grades do you want to display to the students for this quiz?
How many Decimal places in grades do you want to display to the students for individual questions in this quiz?
Select whether you want the normal blocks to display during the student's quiz attempt.
10. Under Extra restrictions on attempts:
Do you want to Require password for students to access this quiz?
The Require network address setting is for proctored quizzes, to ensure that only students in a certain room can gain access to the quiz. Obtain the IP addresses for all rooms in which the quiz will be taken, and enter them in this field, separated by commas.
Enable and select whether you want to set up the 2 levels of Enforced delay.
Click Show more and select whether you want to set up Browser security and restrict students' view and activity further.
11. Complete any other necessary page sections, then click Save and display to access the page for adding questions to the quiz.
12. You can add questions to a quiz in 3 ways:
create them one at a time within the quiz
retrieve them from a question bank
import them from a file on your network or computer, or from one of your uploaded course files
13. To create them one at a time within the quiz:
On the course home page, with editing turned on, click the link for the quiz.
On the quiz's home page select Edit quiz.
14. In the Editing Quiz home page, click the dropdown add link and select a new question or from question bank or a random question.
On the Adding a [question type] question page, select a question Category, enter a Question name and some Question text, then complete the remainder of the fields as required, clicking Help icon for assistance if necessary.
If the question is complex and you want to check how it will display to the student, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save changes and continue editing. Then:
Click Preview, and the question will display in the Preview question window.
If necessary, adjust the Attempt options and click Start again with these options to see how the revised question behaves.
If necessary, change Display options and click Update display options to check the display.
Close the window when you are happy with the way the question behaves.
Click Save changes. The question displays on the Editing quiz page. Click the arrows to change its position within the quiz.