Introduction
In this article, we guide you through how to use the Quiz tool from a teacher’s perspective.
If you’re looking for a broader explanation of how the tool works, including the pedagogical reasoning behind features such as scratch-off mode, you can refer to the overview article. If you’d like to see the Quiz experience from a student’s point of view, you can also explore the student-focused guide below:
Tool In Action
Accessibility
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Setting up
Step 1: Quiz
When creating a new quiz, you’ll first see the setup screen with options to enable Scratch-off mode, define scheduling deadlines, configure student collaboration, and manage visibility settings for correct and incorrect answers.
Fig. 1: Quiz: Setting up
From this screen, you can set when the quiz opens to students. The available options are: immediately, after a certain date (which allows you to select a date and time), or manually. You can also control when the quiz closes, choosing between never, after a specific date, or manually.
Under configuration option, you can decide whether students participate individually, with results shown per student, or individually while displaying results in groups. These groups can be linked directly to groups set up in your LMS.
Fig. 2: Student collaboration options
The visibility settings allow you to control whether students can submit multiple attempts and when correct answers are revealed. You can choose to show correct answers Right after submitting an answer or never reveal them.
Fig. 3: Visibility set up
At the bottom of the setup page, you’ll see the + Add learning step option. If you’d like to add new modules to the activity, click this button.
Fig. 4: + Add learning step option
A panel will open where you can choose and add learning steps, such as Instructions or Grading, depending on what you want to include in your activity.
Fig. 5: Add learning step option (collapsed)
Creating question
To create questions for your quiz, click START CREATING QUESTIONS to get started.
Fig. 6: Start creating questions
If you are starting from scratch, this is the screen you will see:
Fig 7: Empty quiz without questionnaires
But if you already added questions, you can use the white plus (+) icon inside the green circle that appears between existing questions, which allows you to insert a new question at a specific point in the sequence.
Fig. 8: Plus button to insert another questions
You will then be prompted to choose the question type. There are two options available:
Multiple choice question
Open question
Fig. 9: Question type options
Setting up multiple choice questions
When creating a multiple choice question, you can choose whether participants are allowed to select a single answer or multiple answers. You can also attach files either to the question itself or to individual answer options.
For each answer option, you can add an explanation that will be shown to students when they select that option. This can be used to provide corrective feedback for incorrect answers or to reinforce learning with a confirmation message for correct answers.
To mark an answer as correct, simply select the checkbox next to the corresponding option.
Fig. 10: How to set up a multiple choice question
Here's an example of what a multiple choice question looks like after a student interacts with it:
Setting up Open Questions
When creating an open question, you’ll see a text field where you can enter the question itself, along with the option to add an attachment. You can also provide a correct answer, although this is optional and can be left empty if the question is intended as a reflection or discussion prompt.
In the setup view, the question appears at the top, followed by the optional correct answer field. In the top-right corner, you’ll find the options to save the question or cancel your changes.
Please note that open-ended questions require manual grading. You can also engage with student responses by upvoting them or replying directly to individual answers.
Below is an example of how an open question appears after a student has responded.
Fig. 12: Example of an open question where a correct answer was provided by the teacher. The student’s response did not fully meet the criteria for a correct answer, so a score of 50% is displayed. Below the student’s answer, you can see options to upvote the response or reply directly to the submission.
Active Assignment
This section becomes available once the activity is live and students begin participating. It gives you real-time insight into how learners are engaging with the activity, allowing you to monitor progress, participation, and overall activity status as students work through the tasks.
Overall Student Progress
Here you’ll find an overview of student engagement and progress, including how many students have started viewing the assignment, the average answering score, the percentage of questions answered, and the total number of questions in the activity. Below, you can see completion status and progress per student. You can review individual participation, switch to Fullscreen for easier viewing.
Fig. 13: Overall student progress: Active assignment
It is also possible to export all the student data into an excel file. This file contains information concerning review ratings, review comments and grading. You can download this export by clicking on the EXPORT ANALYTICS button in the overall student progress window.
Step 1: Quiz
If no separate Instructions step was added, the Quiz step is usually the first thing students see when they open the activity. This step is where students answer the quiz questions, which can include multiple-choice and open questions.
From the teacher view, you can see when the quiz step was opened and closed, how long it remained available, and how many participants are currently active. You can also grant extensions directly from this view if needed.
Note: The open and close times, as well as the option to grant extensions, are only visible when scheduling has been configured in the activity settings.
Fig. 14: Quiz step in active assignment
The progress overview shows how many students have completed the quiz, their individual progress percentages, and their answering scores. By clicking View questions, you can review the quiz content and see how students responded to each question, either in the standard view or in full screen mode for easier monitoring.
Fig. 15: Inside of questions
Granting extension
Granting an extension allows you to give one or more individual students extra time to complete a specific learning step, without changing the deadline for the rest of the class. When you grant an extension, you can select the student, set a new date and time for their deadline, and save the change. The student will automatically receive an email notification informing them of the updated deadline. Extensions can also be removed or adjusted later if needed.
Fig. 16: Granting extension setup
Note: If you add additional learning steps to the activity, their progress will also be visible in the Active Assignment view.
Good to Know
If students have already engaged with the assignment, you won't be able to change the student collaboration options.
You can use LaTeX when setting up questions.
Our character limit is 10000 characters per quiz.