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Adding and Organizing Questions in your Quiz

Creating Questions within a Quiz

Creating questions directly in your quiz activity is a quick and easy way to get your quiz up and running. If you are not planning to randomize any questions or reuse the questions in other quizzes and/or courses, creating questions in the quiz activity is a good option. These questions will be limited for use within the specific quiz and will not be added to a course question bank.

  1. Go to the quiz activity in your course
  2. From the quiz landing page, select Questions in the red course navigation bar
    Questions option highlighted in the course navigation bar
  3. Select Add (if there are already questions in the quiz, select Add where you would like the new question to appear within the order of questions), and then select + a new question from the resulting drop-drown menu
    The Add option appears at the right side of the question list area. Selecting Add opens a menu to add a new question, add from question bank, or add a random question

  4. From the pop-up menu, select the type of question you would like to add (a description of each question type then click the red Add button at the bottom of the pop-up. This will then open the page to create the question and choose question settings.
    The pop-menu has question types listed in the left scrolling pane. Descriptions for the question type selected appear in the right pane. 

  5. Once you've completed all fields for your question type, scroll down and click the red Save changes button to save the question and see it appear in your quiz questions list.

Adding Questions into Categories (Question Bank)

Creating Categories and Questions within a Question Bank

Creating questions within a question bank is a great way to stay organized when you have a large number of questions in your course and want to share or reuse them between quizzes and/or courses. It is also necessary to create questions in a question bank if you want to randomize them within your quiz.

  1. From your course homepage, select More within the course navigation bar, then Question BanksSelecting More in the course navigation bar will open a drop-down menu to select Question banks
  2. If you already have a course question bank you would like to add your questions to, select it. If you do not have a question bank created, you can add one by clicking the red Add button at the top right of the page.Course question banks will be listed in the first section of the page and the Add button to create a new question bank use the Add button at the top right
  3. Once your question bank is open, you can add questions to the bank directly and they will be placed in the default category for the question bank. To better organize and set up questions for randomization.
    1. Create a category by selecting Categories from the drop-down menu and the red Add category button at the top of the page.Select Categories from the top left drop-down menu and then the Add category button below the drop-down
    2. In the Add category pop-up, select a Parent category (your new category will exist within the parent category), give your new category a name, and then select the red Add category button at the bottom right of the pop-up.
  4. Create questions by selecting Questions from the drop-down menu, and then selecting the Create a new question... button.Select questions from the drop-down menu at the top left of the page and then select the "Create a new question ..." button at the bottom left below the filter options
  5. Choose a question type from the left panel in the pop-up menu, then click the red Add button at the bottom of the menu.
    The pop-menu has question types listed in the left scrolling pane. Descriptions for the question type selected appear in the right pane.
  6. Select the category you would like the questions to fall under, then complete all other fields to create the question and click the red Save changes button at the bottom of the page when you are finished.Select the category from the drop-down at the top of the "General" section



Adding Questions from a Category

Follow the steps below to add questions from a question bank to a quiz

  1. Go to the quiz activity in your course
  2. From the quiz landing page, select Questions in the red course navigation bar
    Questions option highlighted in the course navigation bar
  3. Select Add (if there are already questions in the quiz, select Add where you would like the new question to appear within the order of questions), and then select + from question bank from the resulting drop-drown menu

    The Add option appears at the right side of the question list area. Selecting Add opens a menu to add a new question, add from question bank, or add a random question
  4. Select the Switch bank button in the pop-up, and then choose the question bank you will be picking questions from.
    The Switch bank button is the first button in the pop-up, at the top rightClick on the link to the question bank you want to use
  5. To select and add questions to the quiz:
    1. Select a category by either typing the category name to search or using the drop-down list to select the category
    2. Click the red Apply filters button to display the questions in the category
    3. Select the questions you want to add using the tick boxes to the left of the listed questions
    4. Click the red Add selected questions to the quiz button at the bottom of the pop-up
      Search for the category in the Match category "Type or select..." field/drop-down, then click "Apply filters" below. The questions will appear below the filters. Select questions by enabling the tick boxes to the left of the questions. Click the "Add selected questions to the quiz" button below the listed questions

Adding Random Questions

Adding random questions allows you to give a different set of questions to each student or attempt. These questions are randomly pulled from a set of questions already in a given category. It is recommended to include a large pool of questions in the question bank so that there are enough questions from which the random questions are chosen.

Follow the steps below to have questions randomly chosen from a category:

  1. Go to the quiz activity in your course
  2. From the quiz landing page, select Questions in the red course navigation bar
    Questions option highlighted in the course navigation bar
  3. Select Add (if there are already questions in the quiz, select Add where you would like the new question to appear within the order of questions), and then select + from question bank from the resulting drop-drown menu
    The Add option appears at the right side of the question list area. Selecting Add opens a menu to add a new question, add from question bank, or add a random question
  4. Select the Switch bank button in the pop-up, and then choose the question bank you will be picking questions from.
    The Switch bank button is the first button in the pop-up, at the top rightClick on the link to the question bank you want to use

  5. To select and add questions to the quiz:
    1. Select a category by either typing the category name to search or using the drop-down list to select the category
    2. Click the red Apply filters button to display the questions in the category
    3. Select the number of random questions you want to add using the drop-down below the questions
    4. Click the red Add random question button at the bottom of the pop-up

      Search for the category in the Match category "Type or select..." field/drop-down, then click "Apply filters" below. The questions will appear below the filters. Select the number of random questions to add by using the drop down menu below the list of questions. Click the "Add random question" button at the bottom right



Creating Common Question Types

Multiple choice questions

eClass allows single answer or multiple answers for multiple choice questions. In the General section, you set up the question and assign a score. In the Answer section, you enter the list of options and corresponding feedback for each. To create a multiple choice question, complete the fields provided as follows:

General

  1. Category: Select an appropriate category in which to create the question. If you are creating questions directly in the quiz, this will be the default category for that quiz.
  2. Question name: This is visible only to the instructor and will help you identify the question when selecting questions for quizzes.
  3. Question text: This is what will appear to students as the question.
  4. Question status: Questions that marked Ready will appear to students when used in a quiz. Questions marked Draft will not appear to students or be pulled into a quiz as a random question---this status is useful if you are still editing your question.
  5. Default mark: The default mark will be the automatic value assigned to the question when used in a quiz if not otherwise modified in the quiz setup.
  6. General feedback: General feedback will appear to all students regardless of the choice they select should the quiz settings allow feedback to be viewed after the attempt.
  7. One or multiple answers?: This setting determines whether students are able to select more than one choice at a time.
  8. Shuffle the choices?: If enabled, the choices will appear in a random order for each student.
  9. Number the choices?: Choose your preferred numbering/lettering display for the choices.

Answers

  1. Choice 1: Each choice is a potential answer for the student to select.
  2. Grade: This is value awarded to the student should they select this choice (e.g., if the total value for the question is 2 marks, a student would get 2 full marks for this choice if set to 100% or only 1 mark if set to 50%).
  3. Feedback: This is the specific feedback that will appear to students who select this choice should the quiz settings allow specific feedback to be viewed.

Repeat for additional choices, then click Save changes when finished.

Essay questions

An Essay question allows a response of a file upload and/or online text. This must then be graded manually. To create an essay question, complete the fields provided as follows:

General

  1. Category: Select an appropriate category in which to create the question. If you are creating questions directly in the quiz, this will be the default category for that quiz.
  2. Question name: This is visible only to the instructor and will help you identify the question when selecting questions for quizzes.
  3. Question text: This is what will appear to students as the question.
  4. Question status: Questions that marked Ready will appear to students when used in a quiz. Questions marked Draft will not appear to students or be pulled into a quiz as a random question---this status is useful if you are still editing your question.
  5. Default mark: The default mark will be the automatic value assigned to the question when used in a quiz if not otherwise modified in the quiz setup.
  6. General feedback: General feedback will appear to all students should the quiz settings allow feedback to be viewed after the attempt.

Response options

  1. Response format: Choose the formatting available for students to provide their response.
    1. HTML editor: the editing toolbar will appear for students
    2. HTML editor with file picker: the editing toolbar will appear for students and they will have an option to attach files
    3. Plain text: no editing toolbar will be available for students in the response field
    4. Plain text monospaced font: no editing toolbar will be available for students in the response field, and the font is evenly spaced to make it easier to read
    5. No online text: no response field is available for students to type an answer. If this option is selected, you must allow attachments to be uploaded
  2. Require text: This determines whether students are able to leave the response field blank
  3. Input box size: This determines how big the response field appears to students (measured in potential lines of text). If students write more lines of text than the input box size, they will need to scroll to review their response
  4. Minimum word limit: If text is required, you can enable this and set a minimum number of words the student must enter
  5. Maximum word limit: If text is required, you can enable this and set a maximum number of words the student can enter
  6. Allow attachments: Choose the number of files students are allowed to upload (you can then choose whether attachments are required or option, the file types allowed for upload, and/or the maximum file size for uploads)

Response template: You can use this field to create a template for students to add to in the response field. For example, you may want to provide a table for students to complete or an outline to prompt their responses.

Grader information: This information will not appear to students. This is information that will appear to inform feedback when grading. For example, you may want to include guiding information on how to allocate marks or a model answer.

Short Answer questions

A short answer question allows a response of one or a few words that is graded by comparing against various model answers, which may contain wildcards. To create a short answer question, complete the fields provided as follows:

General

  1. Category: Select an appropriate category in which to create the question. If you are creating questions directly in the quiz, this will be the default category for that quiz.
  2. Question name: This is visible only to the instructor and will help you identify the question when selecting questions for quizzes.
  3. Question text: This is what will appear to students as the question.
  4. Question status: Questions that marked Ready will appear to students when used in a quiz. Questions marked Draft will not appear to students or be pulled into a quiz as a random question---this status is useful if you are still editing your question.
  5. Default mark: The default mark will be the automatic value assigned to the question when used in a quiz if not otherwise modified in the quiz setup.
  6. General feedback: General feedback will appear to all students should the quiz settings allow feedback to be viewed after the attempt.
  7. Case sensitivity: This determines whether answers will be accepted as correct if the letter-case does not match the coded correct answer (No, case is unimportant) or not (Yes, case must match)

Answers

  1. Answer 1:  Enter a potential answer for the student to submit.
  2. Grade: This is value awarded to the student should they match this answer (e.g., if the total value for the question is 2 marks, a student would get 2 full marks for this answer if set to 100% or only 1 mark if set to 50%).
  3. Feedback: This is the specific feedback that will appear to students who submit this answer should the quiz settings allow specific feedback to be viewed.

Repeat for additional choices, then click Save changes when finished.



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