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The Quiz activity enables a teacher to create out-of-class quizzes comprising questions of various types, including multiple-choice, matching, short-answer and numerical. See Active quiz if you wish to use a quiz in a face-to-face lecture/tutorial (ie in class), with a classroom of computers/tablets/phones (devices). 

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1. Plan your quiz

The better your planning, the less likely you are to run into a problem once students start doing the quiz. Therefore, it is advised that you have a process for creating your quiz. Your college may have policies or guidelines around quizzes. Whether you are starting from scratch or revising a current quiz, these concepts, planning questions and tips that may help:

• What is your quiz's purpose? The answer will determine the settings you choose when you create the quiz. 
• Quiz – purpose and settings – what are you wanting students to do?
• What principle/knowledge are you testing – does the quiz item test it? 
• Line up quiz questions against the learning outcomes (you could include this information in the quiz question)
• Connect the questions with Bloom's level/s of taxonomy (Wikipedia) – again, what is being tested? 
• Be creative – you could use scenarios, embed videos/other resources, provide learning pathways (eg hints, tips, more information, think again) 

Follow the links below to start the process.

• Add a category to the question bank – it is good practice to set up a question bank and category/ies before you create the quiz
• Create a new question (question types) 
• What question types are suitable?
• What category will the question sit under?
• Import/export questions – do you need to?
• Import questions (multiple choice in a text file)
• Provide quiz feedback at quiz and question level – the level of feedback will depend on your quiz's purpose

2. Build your quiz

You have planned your quiz – its purpose (which determines quiz settings), the category/ies and questions, the feedback you will provide. Now you are ready to set up the quiz.

1. Create a quiz
2. Add questions to a quiz (edit quiz) – including random questions
3. Edit quiz questions (and regrade quiz) 
4. Calculate a topic total including the best X from Y grades – if you have multiple (eg weekly/two weekly) quizzes in a topic and want to count the best 8 out of 10 (for example)

3. Test your quiz

You've created your quiz and added questions. If you are confident the quiz is ready, it is a good idea to preview it to see if it works before making it available to students. When you preview the quiz, you will experience it as a student.

• Quiz - review and test your quiz

4. Administer your quiz

While the quiz is open, you can view how students are progressing (submitted or not, how many attempts so far etc). Once the quiz has closed, you can finalise the grades.

• Change settings for a group or user (override/extension) (dates, timing and number of allowed attempts, extension)
• Manually mark essay (or other) questions in a quiz
• View results and reports (grades, responses, statistics, manual grading)
• Edit quiz questions (and regrade quiz) 

5. Review your quiz

Reviewing your quiz (question validity, student experience and learning outcomes, alignment with topic learning outcomes) entails collecting data, analysing the data, and acting on it. Your data may also include student feedback – verbally and electronically. This step feeds into future quiz planning (step 1).

• View results and reports (grades, responses, statistics, manual grading)
• Learning analytics and FLO
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