Quizzes. Categories & Management

Quiz is a type of examination consisting of several questions. Quizzes can be used as intermediate or final tests in the learning process. This section of the User Guide describes how to create and manage quizzes.

Working with quizzes can be divided into three steps:

1. First you should create categories to which a quiz will belong.
2. Then you should add a quiz and specify its general properties.
3. And at last you should add questions to the newly created quiz.

Find below detailed information on quiz categories, quizzes and quiz questions.

For organization purposes quizzes and quiz questions are grouped by category:

• When you add a quiz, you should specify a category under which the newly added quiz will be stored. Later on you can easily find the necessary quiz by referring to a corresponding category.
• Question categories give additional information on the question type.

To work with categories:

1. Enter the course and click the Quizzes icon () in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
2. Click the Categories list icon () at the top of the list to show all categories:

Use the menu at the top of the list to manage categories in the following way:

Icon	Name	Step
	Categories List	Click the Categories list icon to display a list of available categories.
	Quiz Management	Click the Quiz Management icon to display a list of quizzes.
	Reports	Click the Reports icon to display a list of quiz reports.
	Certificates	Click the Certificates icon to display a list of quiz certificates.
	Images List	Click the Images List icon to add images.
	New Category	Click the New category icon to add a new quiz category.
	Edit Category	To make changes to a certain category, select a check box next to the category that you want to modify and click the Edit category icon.
	Delete Category	Select check boxes next to categories that you want to delete and click the Delete category icon (use the Category name check box to select all entries in the list). Note: If you try to delete a category that contains belonging quizzes, the category will be removed, while quizzes will still be stored in the system.

To add a quiz or question category:

1. Enter the necessary course and click the Quizzes icon () in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
2. Click the Categories list icon () to show all categories.
3. At the top of the list click the New category icon (). The following form will be displayed:

7. When finished, click the Save category icon () at the top of the form to add the new quiz category. Click Back

() to discard changes and close the form.

To modify properties of a quiz category that already exists in the system:

1. Enter the necessary course and click the Quizzes icon () in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
2. Click the Categories list icon () to show all quiz categories.
3. Select a check box next to the category that you want to modify and click the Edit category icon ().
4. Use the displayed form to modify quiz category properties as described in the Creating Categories topic.
5. When finished, save changes.

To work with the list of quizzes, enter the necessary course and click the Quizzes icon () in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for a given course:

Use the icons at the top of the list to manage quizzes in the following way:

Icon	Name	Step
	Categories List	Click the Categories list icon to display a list of available categories.
	Quiz Management	Click the Quiz Management icon to display a list of quizzes.
	Reports	Click the Reports icon to display a list of quiz reports.
	Certificates	Click the Certificates icon to display a list of quiz certificates.
	Images List	Click the Images List icon to add images.
	New quiz	Click the New quiz icon to add a new quiz.
	Edit quiz	To make changes to a certain quiz, select a check box next to the quiz that you want to modify and click the Edit quiz icon.
	Delete quiz	Select check boxes next to quizzes that you want to delete and click the Delete quiz icon (use the Name check box to select all entries in the list). Selected quizzes will be deleted along with their report statistics.
	Copy quiz	Select a check box next to the quiz that you want to copy and click the Copy quiz icon. From the list select a category to which the copied quiz will belong and click Copy quiz.
	Move quiz	Select a check box next to the quiz that you want to move to another category and click the Move quiz icon. From the displayed list select a category to which the quiz should belong and click Move quiz.
	View Quizzes Statistics	Click the View Quizzes Statistic icon to display quizzes statistics.

When adding a quiz, you need to specify general properties of a new quiz. Later on you will need to add quiz questions.

To create a new quiz and specify its properties:

1. Enter the necessary course and click the Quizzes icon () in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
2. Click the Add Quiz icon () at the top of the quizzes list. The following form will be displayed:

1. The form has three tabs:

• Parameters: use this tab to define general quiz parameters.
• Question Pool: use this tab to add questions to the quiz from the Question Pool.
• Feedbacks: use this tab to create messages that will be shown after Students answer quiz questions or complete the quiz.
• Review: use this tab to add review option to the quiz.
• Advanced: use this tab to manage the quiz results option.

Parameters

Open the Parameters tab to work with general quiz properties. In the displayed form fill out the following fields:

Question Pool

It is not necessary to add unique questions to each new quiz manually: the system allows you to pull questions out of the Question Pool automatically. To add questions for the quiz from the pool, open the Question Pool tab:

You can choose whether to pull random questions from the Question Pool or take a certain number of questions from each question category:

• To pull questions at random, select the By questions radio button. In the text field on the right enter the number of questions that should be taken from the Pool.
• To pull questions by category, select the By category radio button. In the text fields on the right enter the number of questions that should be taken from each category correspondingly.

Global Question Pool (available in PRO version only)

Global Question Pool ( )is a repository for questions which can be imported not only to the quizzes in a particular course, but also to quizzes in any course within the LMS. Global Question Pool is managed as a regular Question Pool.

Feedbacks

When Students answer quiz questions, the system may display success or failure messages. Additionally result messages can be displayed when the Student completes the quiz. To work with question and quiz messages, open the Feedback tab:

In the displayed form fill out the following fields:

In the displayed form fill out the following fields:

Field	Step
Enable a quiz review	Select this check box if you want to enable the quiz review option.
Show user answers	Check the box if you want to show user answers.
Show explanations	Select a necessary option from the drop-down list: - disable this option if you don't want to show explanations; - for all users if you want all the users to view explanations; - who've passed if you want users who've passed the quiz to view explanations; - who've not passed if you want users who haven't passed the quiz to view explanations.

 

Advanced

There are some advanced options for quizzes. If you want to enable them, open the Advanced tab:

 

 

Fig. 'Creating a Quiz. Advanced'

 

In the displayed form fill out the following fields:

Field	Step
Show user result	Select the Yes box if you want to show user results overwise select No.
Display quiz results as graphical bars	Select the Yes box if you want the quiz results to be displayed as graphical bars overwise select No.
Show quiz feedback	Select the Yes box if you want to show quiz feedback overwise select No.

4. When finished, click the Save quiz icon () at the top of the form to add the new quiz. Click Back () to discard changes and close the form.

Note: When a new quiz is added, its status is automatically set to Unpublished (). To make the newly added quiz visible and accessible by Students, go to the list of quizzes and click the Unpublished icon next to the necessary quiz to change the status to Published ().

To modify properties of a quiz that already exists in the system:

1. Enter the necessary course and click the Quizzes icon () in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
2. Select a check box next to the quiz that you want to modify and click the Edit quiz icon () at the top of the quizzes list.
3. Use the displayed form to modify quiz properties as described in the Creating Quizzes topic.
4. When finished, save changes.

If you add a new quiz, you do not have to create it from scratch. The system allows you to copy quizzes that already exist in the system and modify them as required. It is possible to copy one or several quizzes at once.

To copy one or several quizzes:

1. Enter the necessary course and click the Quizzes icon () in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
2. Select a check box next to the quiz (or several quizzes) that you want to copy and click the Copy quiz icon () at the top of the quizzes list. The system will display a list of quizzes that you want to copy:

1. From the Copy (Move) to Category list select the category under which the quiz(zes) should appear.
2. Click the Copy quiz () icon at the top of the list to apply modifications; click Back () to discard changes.

Copied quizzes will have the following type of name Copy of . The quiz copy will have the same questions as the original quiz.

When you create a new quiz, it is necessary to specify a category under which it will be added. When the quiz is created, you can move it to another category. To do so:

1. Enter the necessary course and click the Quizzes icon () in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
2. Select a check box next to the quiz (or several quizzes) that you want to move to another category and click the Move quiz icon () at the top of the quizzes list. The system will display a list of quizzes that you want to move:

1. From the Copy (Move) to Category list select the category under which the quiz(zes) should appear.
2. Click the Move quiz () icon at the top of the list to apply modifications; click Back () to discard changes.