Overview

This guide explains how to create and use the quiz activity.

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What is the Quiz activity?

The Quiz activity can be used to check student knowledge around a particular subject area and is ideal to use for formative assessment.

Creating the Quiz activity

Navigate to the module / course page that you want to add the Quiz activity to and ensure that you have editing enabled by clicking the "Edit mode" toggle.

Scroll down to the section on the page that you want to add the activity to and select 'Add an activity or resource'. 

From the pop-up window click on 'Quiz'.

Enter a name and description for your quiz. The description could include an overview and/or instructions – e.g. This is a timed quiz to test your knowledge of Astronomy. You will have 15 minutes to complete 30 multiple choice questions.

If you want to make the quiz available for a specific window of time, go to the ‘Settings’ section, and set open and close dates/times remembering to click the ‘Enable’ checkboxes for each. You can also set a time limit in this section. 

Note: If a start time isn’t enabled, the quiz will be available immediately.

The grading settings allow staff to set the grade required to pass, the number of attempts students are allowed and grading method.

Question behaviour settings

  • Shuffle within questions – if enabled the parts making up each question will be randomly shuffled each time a student attempts the quiz.
  • How questions behave - students can interact with the quiz questions in various ways – e.g., you may want students to enter an answer to each question, then submit the entire quiz before anything is graded or they get any feedback (deferred feedback) or you may want them to submit each question as they go along to get immediate feedback (interactive with multiple tries).
  • Each attempt builds on the last (if multiple attempts are allowed and this setting is enabled, each new quiz attempt will contain the results of the previous attempt, allowing the quiz to be completed over several attempts).

The review options settings allow staff to adjust what components of the quiz students can see at various stages during and after completion.

The extra restrictions on attempts section offers functionality such as password protection for quizzes as well as setting delays between attempts.

Finally, in the overall feedback section it is possible to set grade boundaries and show students specific feedback based on the results they achieved.

Click 'Save and display' to save the quiz.

You have successfully created the settings for a quiz. Use the next section to find out how to add questions to a quiz.

Add a question (options)

Ensure editing is enabled by clicking the ‘Edit mode’ toggle, then click on the title of the quiz to open it.

Click the ‘Questions’ link in the top menu, then click ‘Add’.

You will then see options to create a new question, add a question from the question bank and add a random question.

Add a new question

1. Click the 'Add' dropdown and select '+ new question'.

The different question types will display in a list for you to select from.

2. Click to select a question type (e.g. multiple choice) then click 'Add'.

3. Enter the question name and question text.

Note: The question text is what students will see and it is fine to copy the question text to use for the question name as well.

4. Beneath the question text is the 'question status' setting which can be set to ready or draft.  

5. Default mark - the default value of 1 is usually kept unless multiple answers are required in which case the default mark should be increased accordingly - e.g. to 2 if the question has two correct answers.

6. One or multiple answers? If your question includes more than one correct answer, click the dropdown and select 'multiple answers'.

Enter possible choices for students to select from and indicate the correct answer by setting the grade to 100%

Note: If there is more than one correct answer, you need to set the grade for each accordingly - e.g. for two correct answers you would set the grade of each to 50%.

7. Scroll down and click 'Save changes'.

You will be returned to the question page and can repeat steps 1 - 7 to add more questions.

Question Versions 

Each question you create will have a version number applied - e.g. version 1 when you first create the question, then version 2 if edited, version 3 if edited again etc. From the questions page you can select to always include the latest version of the question or select a version to include in the quiz if there is more than one. 

To see all versions of each question, click the 'cog' icon to edit a question, then select the 'QuestionBank' link in the breadcrumb trail.

Locate the question, then click 'Edit' and select 'History' from the drop down menu.

All versions of the question will then be displayed.

Reusing a question from another quiz

In Learning Space it is possible to reuse questions from other quizzes within your module/course/resource page.

Note: It is not possible to access quiz questions from other modules/courses. 

To begin, click the 'Add' dropdown and select '+ from question bank'.

You can either search for your question one page at a time or if you have arranged your questions into categories, you can select a question from a category using the 'Select a category' drop down. By default all quiz questions will appear together in a single category called "Default for [Name of Page]".

Click the checkbox/checkboxes for the question(s) you would like to add to the quiz and click 'Add selected questions to the quiz'.

Maximum grade - When you have finished adding questions to your quiz, you will be returned to the questions page where you need to enter a maximum grade. In the example below there are 3 questions in the quiz, each worth 1 mark, so a maximum grade of 3 has been entered.

Editing and deleting questions

To edit or delete a question within a quiz, click the title of the quiz to open it, then click 'Questions' from the top menu.

This will show you a list of all questions in the quiz. 

Questions can be edited directly within the questions page of the quiz to create new versions. 

To edit a question, click the ‘cog’ icon to the left of the question title. When you have finished editing, click ‘Save changes’. 


To delete a question, click the ‘trash can’ icon to the left of the grade. 

Viewing results

To view the results of a quiz, click the quiz title to open it, then click the 'Results' link in the top menu.

You then have options to select what to include in the Results ‘report’. In the example below the report will include details of all students who have attempted the quiz where attempts are in progress or finished.

Results and information about student quiz attempts are then displayed.

Beneath the table of quiz results, there are two buttons that allow you to ‘regrade selected attempts’ or ‘delete selected attempts’

Hyperlink iconThe student experience:


Please refer to the student guide for information about how students use the quiz activity.

Question mark iconFurther Support

For further support on Learning Space, or to report any issues with this guide, please get in touch with the Digital Learning Team via dlsupport@falmouth.ac.uk. Alternatively, please refer to the numerous help guides found on our Knowledge Base. 

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