How to Duplicate a Quiz for Another Student's Accommodation

How to duplicate a quiz for student accommodation, and modify the questions only for the new quiz copy

Warning

Duplicating a quiz and changing the questions in the new quiz copy will change the questions in the original as well. Please avoid doing so at all costs as this will permanently change your original quiz. Please see below for step-by-step instructions on how to properly duplicate a quiz and change the questions ONLY for the new quiz copy.Helpjuice Warning Callout Body

 

 

How do I duplicate a quiz?

Click Edit mode toggle to turn it on at the top right of the course home page.Top of eclass course page with Edit mode toggle turned on

 

  1. Go to the quiz you would like to duplicate, then click the three vertical dots beside the quiz, from the pop up menu click the Duplicate option
Ellipses and the Duplicate sub menu option

2. You will now see a copy of your quiz created right underneath the original, as you can see on the screenshot below.
 

Quiz and Quiz copy

 

How do I modify the questions for the quiz copy?

Go to the question bank, create a duplicate of the questions from the original quiz that you are interested in modifying for the new quiz copy, then add that duplicate to your new quiz copy:

  1. From your main course page, click on the More icon in the top menu bar, then from the drop down select Question banks
Top menu on eclass course page with More icon and Question bank option highlighted

2. From the page that opens, click on the shared question bank for the course:

Selecting all the questions in this course

3. Then, find the question you're interested in copying
Original question highlighted.
 

4. And copy it, by clicking Edit and then Duplicate
 

 

Selecting Duplicate from the Edit menu

 

5. When the duplicate question appears (under the original question more often than not) you may edit the copied question, saving it when done.
 

View of copied question

Now it is time to add the new question to the duplicated quiz. In order to do so, 

 

  1. Open your copied quiz from the course page (the one you duplicated in the very first step) and click on Questions

 

Copied quiz - Questions selected

2. Click Add → from question bank.

 

Add a question

3. Press Switch bank on the screen that appears:
 

Switch bank

4. Select the course's question bank:

Selecting the main question bank for the course

5. Find the modified question you wish to add, check the checkbox beside it, and click Add selected questions to the quiz.
 

6. Finally, remove the original question by clicking the garbage can icon beside the offending question:
 

You may now set up access restrictions for this new quiz if required. 

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