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Assessments & Quizzes

Creating Quizzes

Build a quiz step by step — add questions, set points and a pass mark, then publish it for your learners.

A quiz is a set of questions you give to learners. You can build a short practice quiz in a few minutes, or a full graded exam with timers and rules. This page walks through making one from start to finish.

Before you start

Decide a few things first:

  • What is it for? Practice (low stakes) or a graded test that counts toward the grade?
  • How will it be graded? Questions that grade themselves, questions you grade by hand, or a mix. See Question types.
  • Where will learners find it? A quiz can stand on its own, or sit inside a course as an exam.

Create a quiz

  1. Go to Admin → Quizzes and click New Quiz.
  2. Give it a title and a short description so learners know what to expect.
  3. Pick a difficulty level if you use them (for example, Easy, Medium, Hard).
  4. Save. The quiz starts as a draft — only you can see it until you publish.

Add questions

  1. Open your quiz and click Add Question.
  2. Choose the question type — multiple choice, true/false, matching, essay, and many more. See the full list in Question types.
  3. Type the question text and fill in the answers (and mark the correct ones for auto-graded types).
  4. Set the points the question is worth. You can also add an optional explanation that learners may see after they finish.
  5. Repeat for each question. You can reorder questions by dragging them.

You can attach an image, audio clip, or video to a question, and add a per-question time limit if you want each question timed on its own.

Set scoring and the pass mark

  • Points per question — give harder questions more weight.
  • Pass mark — the percentage a learner needs to pass (for example, 50%). Learners below it are marked as not passed.
  • Partial credit — for some question types, a learner can earn part of the points for a partly-correct answer. See Grading quizzes.
  • Negative marking (optional) — subtract points for a wrong answer to discourage guessing.

Set the rules

Before publishing, decide how the quiz behaves:

  • Attempts and timers — how many tries, how long, and whether to shuffle questions. See Quiz settings.
  • When it's open — start and end times, a password, or a seat limit. See Quiz availability.
  • Proctoring — full-screen lock, webcam, and monitoring for high-stakes tests. See Proctoring.

Publish

When the quiz is ready, change its status from Draft to Published. Learners can now take it (subject to availability and access rules). Later you can move it to Archived to retire it without deleting it.

Reuse and recover

  • Duplicate an existing quiz to use it as a starting point for a similar one.
  • Import/export questions in bulk using a spreadsheet (CSV) file.
  • Recover a quiz you deleted by mistake — deleted quizzes can be restored.

See Quiz analytics for duplicate, import, export, and recovery details.

Good to know

Keep practice quizzes generous (many attempts, no proctoring) and save the strict rules for graded exams. You can always copy a practice quiz and tighten the rules for the real test.

Assessments & Quizzes

Build quizzes, assignments, and exams to test what learners know — auto-graded or hand-graded, with attempts, timers, proctoring, leaderboards, and detailed analytics.

Question Types

Every kind of question you can ask in a quiz — which ones grade themselves, which you grade by hand, and what each one is good for.

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Before you startCreate a quizAdd questionsSet scoring and the pass markSet the rulesPublishReuse and recoverGood to knowRelated pages