Managing quiz questions

Note  The Question In Use page displays when you save changes to a shared question or information item. You can select the check box beside each quiz, self assessment, survey, and the Question Library in which you want to apply your current changes and click Save.

  1. Edit a quiz question or section
  2. Edit points, difficulty, bonus, and mandatory fields in a question
  3. Preview a quiz question
  4. Reorder quiz questions or sections
  5. Delete a quiz question or section
  6. Publish quiz questions to a learning object repository

Edit a quiz question or section

  1. On the Manage Quizzes page, click on the quiz that contains questions you want to edit.
  2. Click Add/Edit Questions in the Layout/Questions tab.
  3. Click Edit from the context menu of the question or section you want to edit.
  4. Edit the quiz question or section, then click Save.

Edit points, difficulty, bonus, and mandatory fields in a question

  1. On the Manage Quizzes page, click on the quiz that contains questions you want to edit.
  2. Click Edit Values in the Layout/Questions tab.
  3. Enter your Points value and select a difficulty level from the Difficulty drop-down list.
  4. Select the Bonus check box to create a bonus question.
  5. Select the Mandatory check box to force a response.
    Notes
    • If you include mandatory questions in quizzes and surveys, users can only submit their responses after they complete the mandatory questions.
    • When a quiz is set to automatically submit after a time limit, it submits even if mandatory questions have not been completed.
    • You cannot use mandatory questions in conjunction with the Prevent Moving Backwards setting.
  6. Click Save.

Preview a quiz question

The preview page allows you to view the appearance of an individual question, as well as the comments and hints you might include with the question. If the quiz question appears in more than one place, the preview page also displays a list of places the question is in use (for example, Question Library, quizzes, surveys, self assessments).

  1. On the Manage Quizzes page, click on the quiz that contains questions you want to preview.
  2. Click Add/Edit Questions in the Layout/Questions tab.
  3. Click Preview from the context menu of the question you want to preview.
  4. Preview the question, then click Done.

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Reorder quiz questions or sections

Change the order of questions displayed in a quiz by reordering them in the quiz question list.

  1. On the Manage Quizzes page, click on the quiz that contains questions you want to reorder.
  2. Click Add/Edit Questions in the Layout/Questions tab.
  3. Click Order.
  4. Select the check box beside the quiz question and/or section you want to reorder, and click the Up or Down arrows to move it through the list.
  5. Click Save.

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Delete a quiz question or section

  1. On the Manage Quizzes page, click on the quiz that contains questions you want to delete.
  2. Click Add/Edit Questions in the Layout/Questions tab.
  3. Select the check box beside the quiz questions and sections you want to delete.
  4. Click Delete.

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Publish quiz questions to a learning object repository

  1. On the Manage Quizzes page, click on the quiz that contains questions you want to publish.
  2. Click Add/Edit Questions in the Layout/Questions tab.
  3. Select the check box beside the quiz questions and sections you want to publish.
  4. Click Publish to LOR.
  5. Choose a Destination Repository from the drop-down list and select if you want to Overwrite an existing object or Create new object. You can have large files or packages Publish in the background, which allows you to leave the page as the system publishes. You can check the publishing job's status later.
  6. Choose options for whether the object will be visible and/or publicly available.
    • Only you and users with sufficient permission can view hidden learning objects and files.
    • You can change this option once the object/file publishes to the LOR.
    • Publicly available objects are available to users without an ID and password to Learning Environment.
  7. Select the Creative Commons rights you want to associate with the learning object/file. Creative Commons licensing enables you to retain copyright on your work while allowing different degrees of reuse to other users. For more information go to creativecommons.org.
  8. If you want to remove questions or sections from the package, clear the check boxes beside the questions or sections you do not want to publish. Clearing a section clears all its associated questions. If you want to add, edit, or delete metadata, click the Edit Metadata icon beside a question or section. For information on editing metadata, see Adding/editing a resource's metadata.

    Note  Associating a creative commons license automatically populates the metadata rights fields with this information.

  9. Click Next.
  10. Enter metadata such as a Title, Description, and Keywords for your learning object.
  11. Click Publish.

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See also

 

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