The Quiz activity is a core AsULearn module that allows the Teacher to design and build quizzes consisting of a large variety of question types, including but not limited to multiple choice, true-false, short answer, essay, and matching questions. These questions are kept in the course's Question Bank and can be added in different quizzes. See also Quiz: Add Questions

There are three major steps to creating a quiz: 

  1. Creating a question bank
  2. Creating the Quiz activity and specifying name, timing, grading, and other details (see separate topic)
  3. Adding questions to the quiz (see separate topic) 

This video walks through the steps for creating quiz categories and quiz questions.

Step-by-step guide

Questions saved in the Question Bank are available to be used in any Quiz activity in the course.

  1. From the course home page, select the More tab in the Course Menu along to top. Then click Question bank in the dropdown menu.

    Use the course menu and select more then question bank from the dropdown menu

  2. On the Question bank page, use the Questions dropdown menu at the top left section and click Categories.

    From the questions pulldown at the top left select categories

Create/Edit categories

You can imagine a question category as a folder on your desktop computer. Questions are stored in these categories in a similar way as your files are stored in a file system.

Each category must have a name and you can include a short description of the category. Create the category hierarchy by specifying a Parent category for each category or the Top for Course as the parent for a category at the top level, that is, it has no parent. If a colleague has shared a course with you, or if you've imported a test bank from a publisher, your course may already have many categories in the Question bank.


Creating question categories and subcategories is a good practice. It is better than keeping all your questions in one big, unmanageable list in the quiz module. Categories and subcategories are very powerful when creating a quiz with random questions that can be selected either from one category or from a category or any of its subcategories. Tags can also be used to create selective pools of questions for random selection. Some faculty organize questions by learning objective, some by unit or topic, some by individual exam, some by question type, and some by other strategies. Early on, think about the strategy that would work best for you. Tags can also be used to create selective pools of questions for random selection.

The default category does not have to be added: it exists as Default for [Course Short Name]

  1. From the Question categories page, click the Add category button.
  2. Select the Parent category for the new category. Your first category will be under the current Default or at the Top category level (same level as Default).
  3. Enter a Name for the new category and optional Category info.
  4. Click the Add category button.

use arrow icons to move categories, gear icon to edit, and trash icon to delete

Create questions in a category

  1. From the top left dropdown menu, select Questions; or click a category name on the Categories page. Either will take you to the page where you can create a new question:

    question screen allows the creation of new questions. click create a new question to begin.

  2. Click the Create a new question... button.
  3. Choose a question type to add from the list on the left by clicking it. There are many choices and when you click on the question type, the description of the question type is displayed. 

    From the choose a question type to add panel select the desired type from the list

  4. Click Add to create a question of the type selected.


AsULearn will remember the settings you select when you save a question and use those setting as the defaults when you make the next question of the same type. 

General

The particular options available depend on the question type selected. Click the blue question marks (question) on the screen for more help with the settings. Most question types will have these settings:

Tags

At the bottom of the Editing a question screen is the Tags section. Tags can be helpful for filtering questions to find them regardless of their category.

Manage tags in the Tag section of the page

  • In the Search field start typing a tag name.
  • If one or more tags exist that matches, they will display. Use the down arrow key to highlight the tag and press Enter to add it, or click on it. 
  • Once you have tags created, click on the arrow in the Search field to display the list of tags and click to select one.
  • If there is no matching tag, press Enter to create one with the text you've typed.
  • Tags appear above the Search field. 
  • Questions can have more than one tag.
  • Click the × on a tag to remove it from the question.

Using tags to filter questions

  • On the Question bank screen Select a category for the questions you want to look through. Select a high-level category or Top for [Course] for all questions.
  • Select Also show questions for subcategories to include questions below the selected category.
  • In the Filter by tags... field type a tag name and press Enter, or click the arrow to select one from the list.
  • Questions with the selected tags will be listed. 
  • To clear a filter, click the × on the tag to remove it.

Tips for multiple choice

For multiple choice questions also consider the following:

Tips for essay

For essay questions, AsULearn offers a Response template. Any text entered there will be displayed in the response input box when a new attempt at the question starts. Note that you can also allow attachments to be uploaded to an essay question if you need to collect a file from students in the course of an online quiz.

An essay question can also be created as an Online text assignment. 

There is a minimum and maximum word count option for essay, however it does not display the requirements to the student until they try to submit.  Please make sure you include the minimum and maximum word count requirements in your question text so that students will be aware. 

Tips for matching

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