You can add a number of different question types to each quiz. This tutorial shows you how to create a ‘Multiple choice’ question.
How to add a ‘Multiple choice’ question to your quiz
Locate your quiz and click to open
If you are adding your first question:
- Locate your module and click the quiz you want to add multiple choice questions
- Click on the cog icon in the top right-hand side of the screen and click on ‘Edit Quiz’
- Then click ‘Add’ and select ‘a new question’
- A list of question types will be displayed
- Select ‘Multiple choice’ then click ‘Add’
If you are adding to a quiz that already has questions:
- Locate the quiz and click to open
- Go to the ‘Administration block’ (right-hand side of page) and click on the cog and then ‘Edit quiz’
- You will see a list of questions already added to the quiz
- Follow steps 3 – 5 above
How to set up your Multiple choice question
- Category – Click the down arrow and select the category that you want the question added to
- Question name – Enter a question name. This is for reference purpose only (students do not see this)
- Question Text – Enter your question
- Default mark – enter the default mark for the question
- General feedback (optional)
- One or multiple answers? – Click the down arrow to make your selection
- Shuffle choices – This is enabled by clicking the checkbox. If enabled, the order of the answers will be randomly shuffled for each attempt (optional)
- Number choices – The default format is set to a, b, c. If you want to change this, click the down arrow to select a different number format
- Answers: Choice 1 – enter the first choice, grade – leave as none if incorrect or click down arrow and select 100% if this is the correct answer
- Feedback – enter feedback for the choice (optional)
- Repeat step 9 for other choices
- Scroll down and click ‘Save changes’ to save your multiple choice question
Watch the video to see this in action
