Using Quizzes for practice and assessment: Set up the front cover

4. Set up a quiz

4.1. Set up the front cover

Add a quiz to your course

In the course where you want your quiz, turn on the editing and from the Activity Chooser, select 'Quiz'.

Give it a name and if desired, a description telling students what the quiz is about.
Then scroll down to the bottom of the page, click 'Save and display' and start adding questions.

Default settings for your quiz

If you don't change anything on the quiz setup page (your 'front cover'), then your quiz will work like this:
— It will have no time limit and students can take it as many times as they wish, with the recorded grade being their best attempt.
— Each question will be on a different page and they can move freely between previous and later questions.

— Students won't know their score or get feedback until they complete the quiz.

Possible settings you can choose from:

If you expand the sections in the quiz setup page and click the ? icon and the 'Show more' links, you can explore alternative settings for your quiz. Here are some popular settings:

— Time limit - if you only want to allow students a limited amount of time from when they start until they must have finished. If, instead you want students to finish by a certain date and time, set the Close the quiz setting.

— How questions behave— Interactive with multiple tries—instead of the quiz being like a test where students only see their results at the end, this setting allows them to get immediate feedback for each question and keep trying (Good for formative assessment.)

— Overall feedback -completing this will give your students customised feedback according to what grade range they obtained.

You may want to have another look to the examples provided in this course, to see these settings used in different ways.