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Quiz: For Teachers (Setting Up)

Julia
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Introduction

In this article, we guide you through how to set up the Quiz tool from a teacher’s perspective.

If you’d like more information on how this tool works, you can check out other articles here:

Tool In Action

This article walks you through the steps of a Quiz activity, following the same flow as the tool itself. It will describe the process of setting up the assignment. This refers to what you can configure before the assignment is published, such as instructions, settings, deadlines, grouping, and grading rules. Students cannot access the activity at this stage. You can still edit some settings after publishing; however, once students start making progress, certain options may be locked to protect their work and data. Wherever this applies, the article will clearly note it.
Note: When you open a published activity, you’ll land on the Active Assignment view by default. To return to the setup view after publishing, click Edit in the upper-left corner of the activity.
You can see the article about the Active Assignment view of this tool here.

Accessibility

We're devoted to making our tools as accessible as possible for all learners - to read more about accessibility in FeedbackFruits tools, check this article: Accessibility: Within FeedbackFruits Tools.

 

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:

Fig. 11: Multiple choice question after student interaction

 

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.

 

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.