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:
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This video walks through the steps for creating quiz categories and quiz questions.
Questions saved in the Question Bank are available to be used in any Quiz activity in the course.
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]
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. |
The particular options available depend on the question type selected. Click the blue question marks on the screen for more help with the settings. Most question types will have these settings:
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.
Using tags to filter questions
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For multiple choice questions also consider the following:
Do you want to Shuffle the choices? If so, the response options will be presented in a different random order for each student and for each attempt a student takes the quiz. TIP: Watch our for "All of the above" and "A & C only" if you shuffle the choices!
Shuffling response options within a multiple choice question is controlled by two independent settings: one in the quiz settings and one in the question settings. If a quiz is set to shuffle choices (Question behavior > Shuffle within questions > Yes), but a particular question is set to not shuffle (option not checked), that particular question does not shuffle. If you select Shuffle the choices in the question setting (option is checked), that means the question is eligible to be shuffled, but the quiz must have Shuffle within questions set to Yes for shuffling to occur. |
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.
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