Give your quiz a Name and a Description. Check the Display description on course page box below the Description field if you wish to have your quiz description visible on the course page.

Open the quiz and Close the quiz

You can specify times when the quiz is accessible for people to make attempts. If the Open the quiz time is enabled, the quiz will be unavailable to students until the set open time. They will be able to view the quiz introduction but will not be able to view the questions. If not enabled, the quiz is available to students once the quiz is saved and ready to go.

If the Close the quiz time (due date) is enabled and set, students will not be able to start new attempts once the closing time is reached.

Time limit

By default, quizzes do not have a time limit, which allows students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you do specify a time limit, several things are done to try and ensure that quizzes are completed within that time:

1. A countdown timer is shown in the quiz navigation block
2. When the timer has run out, the quiz is submitted automatically with whatever answers have been filled in so far

When time expires

Note: It is always the case that if the student is actively working on the quiz when the count-down timer reaches zero, then their attempt will be automatically submitted at that moment. This setting only affects what happens if the student starts a timed attempt, then leaves the attempt, and then later time expires.

There are three options as to what will happen when the time limit is up. Choose the one you need from the dropdown menu:

• Open attempts are submitted automatically (default)
• There is a grace period when open attempts can be submitted, but no more questions answered
• Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not counted.

If you select "There is a grace period..." then you can check the box to enable the "Submission grace period" and specify a period of time during which learners may still submit the quiz after the time is up.

Choose a Grade category for your quiz (if applies), set the Grade to pass (optional), the Attempts allowed on the quiz and the Grading method of the quiz.

The Grade to pass value only acts as a filter in Moodle Gradebook. Specifically, if a grade reaches the passing grade, it is displayed in green; Otherwise, the grade will be in red.

When more than one attempt is allowed, you will see the grading method drop-down menu which provides the following options that help you determine how the grade is calculated:

• Highest grade: the final grade (the highest one) in any attempt
• Average grade: the arithmetic mean of the grade received in all attempts
• First attempt: final grade is the one received in the first attempt of the quiz
• Last attempt: final grade is the grade on the latest attempt

Review options controls what information students will be shown when they review their quiz attempts. As seen below, it is a matrix with checkboxes.

By default, the items under Immediately after the attempt, Later, while the quiz is still open, and After the quiz is closed are all checked. This means, for example, students can view the Right answer and Whether correct right after they completed an attempt and after the quiz is closed or before the quiz is closed and after they completed the attempt.

You may want to customize these checkboxes to suit your needs. For example, some instructors want to hide the right answers from students until the quiz reaches its close time or all students have completed their attempts. In this case, the instructor will want to uncheck Whether correct, Points, Specific feedback, General feedback, Right answer, and Overall feedback under Immediately after the attempt and Later, while the quiz is still open.

There are some other settings that may or may not be relevant to you. For example, some might need to enable Group mode under the Common module settings settings. Others may also want to specify the Activity completion conditions.

Explore the other settings as needed. You can click the teal question mark button to view explanations of the settings to help you decide if and how to use them.

Once these quiz settings have been configured, go to the bottom of the page and click Save and display.

The next step is to add and edit quiz questions.

Use the Add question button or the Questions tab to access the Questions page where you'll add questions to the quiz.

On the Questions page, click on Add and then +a new question to add a new question to your quiz. This brings up a floating window with all of the question options to choose from. By clicking on a question, you can see a description of the question type on the right. Select the type of question you want on the quiz and click the blue Add button at the bottom of the floating window.

Depending on the question type selected, you are taken to an editing page where you can edit and save the new question. Please review Moodle.org's Quiz Question Types Help Article on all the question types, including how to set each up and how scoring in each works. Please also feel free to contact Help Desk to request a Moodle quiz consultation as needed.

Once you're done, go to the bottom of the question setup page and click Save changes. This will take you back to the Questions main page where you can add more questions.

Once questions are added, if you haven't already, you will want to check the question grades and the quiz maximum grade to make sure that the question grades reflect the value of each question compared to their peers.

By default, each new question is worth 1 point while the quiz maximum grade is set to 10. This means, for the quiz below in the screenshot that has 4 questions, each question is weighted equally and receiving 1 point gives the student a grade of 2.5. To adjust the question grade to reflect value differences, you can click the question grade box, insert a new value, and hit the Enter on your keyboard. For example, some may want to change the essay grade to 2 so it is worth twice of the multiple-choice question.

Similarly, you can also change the maximum grade to match your needs. Simply click the maximum grade, insert a desired value, and click Save.

By default, Moodle quiz uses a new page for every question and questions are not grouped into sections with section titles. However, this default layout can be adjusted as needed.

Add or remove a page break

You can remove a page break by clicking the icon where the arrows point towards each other. For example, in the screenshot below, if you click the icon between questions 1 and 2, that page break will be removed. In other words, questions 1 and 2 will be shown on Page 1 while questions 3 and 4 will be on Page 2.

On the contrary, you can add a page break by clicking the icon where the arrows point away from each other. In our example, questions 3 and 4 are currently placed on the same page. By clicking that icon between these questions, you will add a page break so question 3 will be on Page 3 and question 4 will be on its own page, Page 4.

Organize questions by sections

You also have the option to organize questions by sections. To do so, as seen below in the screenshot, click the Add button right above the page where you wish to start a new section and select a new section heading to add a section heading as an indicator of the beginning of a new section.

There are two options for previewing individual quiz questions. As seen below in the screenshot, while you are on the question editing page, you can go to the bottom of the page and click Preview to see how the question looks from the students' point of view. If you are on the Questions page where you add new questions and see a list of questions added to the quiz, you can click the magnifying glass icon next to the question to preview it.

It is highly recommended that you preview the quiz to ensure a smooth quiz-taking experience. Previewing the quiz allows you to experience the quiz from the students' perspective where you can attempt and submit the quiz and check how quiz review looks. To do so, go to the Quiz tab and click the Preview quiz blue button.