Quiz administration

When you first set up your quiz from Add an activity or resource > Quiz, (or, if you don't have this link, the dropdown Add an activity>Quiz) you will get the following settings, (which can also be changed later in the Edit Settings link of the Quiz administration settings block) All settings may expanded by clicking the "Expand all" link top right.

The quiz module has additional settings which may be changed by an administrator in Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Quiz.

The time period settings for a quiz (such as time limit, submission grace period, autosave period and so on) can be set here with a duration of seconds, minutes, hours, days or weeks. These defaults will then be used when new quizzes are created.

Autosave period

If enabled, student responses will be saved at regular period according to the selection here. the default is one minute. This is useful so that students don't lose work but does increase the load on the server.

This section controls what information students will be shown when they review their past attempts at the quiz, and during the attempt in adaptive mode. It is a matrix with check boxes.

The attempt	Will show how the student responded to each question.
Whether correct	Displays whether the students response to each question is correct or incorrect.
Marks	Reveals the marks awarded to the student and the grade for the quiz.
Specific feedback	Will show the feedback for the response to the answer as set when adding the question to the quiz. Each response to a question can have feedback for both correct and incorrect answers.
General feedback	Displays the general feedback for the whole question as set when adding the question to the quiz. You can use the general feedback to give students some background to what knowledge the question was testing.
Right answer	Reveals the correct answer to each question, whether the student answered correctly or not (See note below)
Overall feedback	Displays feedback for the entire quiz as set in the quiz settings (See note below). For each of the above items, you can determine the timeframe when the students will see them:
During the attempt	Is only available when ‘How questions behave’ has been set to ‘Immediate feedback’, ‘Immediate feedback with CBM’ and ‘Interactive with multiple tries’. If set to one of these options then a ‘Check’ button will appear below the answer and when clicked the student will submit that response and then receive immediate feedback.
Immediately after the attempt	Means within 2 minutes of the student clicking "submit all and finish".
Later, while the quiz is still open	Means after 2 minutes, but before the close date (if the quiz does not have a close date, this phase never ends).
After the quiz is closed	Means what it says (you never get here for quizzes without a close date).

Note: Currently, the Answers display is a bit inconsistent between different question types. For example, the matching question type shows students which of their responses are correct, but does not tell them the right answer for the ones they got wrong. The short answer and multiple choices question types do tell the student what the correct answer is.

Grade category

If you have categories in your gradebook, select the one you wish the quiz to be in here.

Attempts allowed

Students may be allowed to have multiple attempts at a quiz. This can help make the process of taking the quiz more of an educational activity rather than simply an assessment.

Note: You can change the allowed number of attempts for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block.

Grade to pass

Here you can set a passing grade for the quiz. This may be connected with Activity completion and Conditional activities such that a student will not be able to access a follow up activity until they have passed the quiz.

Grading method

When multiple attempts are allowed, there are different ways you can use the grades to calculate the student's final grade for the quiz.

• Highest grade - the final grade is the highest (best) grade in any attempt
• Average grade - the final grade is the average (simple mean) grade of all attempts
• First grade - the final grade is the grade earned on the first attempt (other attempts are ignored)
• Last grade - the final grade is the grade earned on the most recent attempt only

See also

• Quiz settings
• Building Quiz
• Using Quiz
• Quiz reports
• Quiz FAQ