Basic Steps-Adding a Quiz to Moodle

The First step to creating a quiz on Moodle comes before questions are even written; setting your quiz preferences.

1. Turn on the editing preferences on your class page

2. Then select "Quiz" from the drop-down menu "Add an Activity"

3. The first thing you should do is Add a name to your quiz in the first blank provided
(you can add a brief description of the quiz in the box below it if you like)


Moodle provides you with lots of choices to format your quiz, you can...

• Use the sets of date and time to create a start-time and deadline for students to take your quiz. If you don't wish to do this, simply check the disable box.

• You can set a time limit for the quiz, or specify how long a student must wait to retake your quiz.

• Specify how many questions will appear on a page at one time

• Shuffle the questions or shuffle the possible answers

• Allow students to make more than one attempt

• Specify how the Moodle will grade the students' quiz attempt(s)

• Apply penalties or deduct points for an incorrect response

• Select the number of decimal points that will appear in a student' end grade

And finally, perhaps most significantly...

Allows you to provide instant feedback to your students depending upon their grade on the quiz you have created.