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Learn@Illinois Moodle - Using UI Quick Quiz Entry

Learn how to use the "UI Quick Quiz Entry" report to easily and quickly add quiz questions to a course's Question Bank. Once the questions are in the question bank, you can easily add them to a new or existing quiz.
For a permanent link to this information, please use: https://go.illinois.edu/MoodleUIQuickQuizEntry

  1. In the menu on the left, click Tools and Reports.
    Tools and reports menu
  2. From the expanded menu, select UI Quick Quiz Entry.
      Select UI Quick quiz entry
  3. Consider what categories you would like to use and create those before you start. In this case, we will make a category called Midterm with subcategories for each topic covered. Click Create New Category.
    Create new category
  4. Under "Name", write the name of your category. In this case, it is Unit1- Introduction. Under "Parent," select the default for your course.
    Name and parent
  5. Click Create.
    Create button
  6. Now click on the new category that you have created so that it is highlighted.
    Note: When you move to other areas of the screen, the highlighting will change to gray.
    Default category
  7. Under "Options" in the top right, next to "Question Base Name", type a label. This is a root label from which the series of questions will be named. Each question will have this name with a number after it in place of the # sign. In this case, we typed Unit1Question#.
    Options quesiton name base
  8. To add questions to the question bank, choose a template from the "Append Template" drop-down menu. See Understanding UI Quick Quiz Entry Templates to help you decide which template to choose.
    Note: Each time you append a template, it adds a question template to the bottom of your list of questions.
    Amend template drop-down
  9. You will now see a template to the left and a live preview in the middle. The asterisk (*) indicates which option is correct.
    Text and preview before
  10. Fill in the template, copying the basic format to add as many questions as you would like. 
    Note: Question numbers do not have to be accurate. As long as there is a number (any number) and either a right parenthesis or period after it, the questions will be generated with a proper number sequence.
    Note: You may add as many options as you like by adding more letters in sequence (e.g. e., f., g.).
    Text and preview after
  11.  Add more questions and create more categories as needed.
  12. Before you finish, click on Advanced Options...
    Advanced options
  13. Verify the "Shuffle answer choices" setting.
    If you would like Moodle to shuffle the question answers so that the order of the choices for each question is different for each student (e.g. for our first question above, the correct answer "banana" could appear as option A, B or D), check this box.
    Note: If you are using "All of the above" or "None of the above" questions, make sure that "Shuffle answer choices" is not checked.
     Shuffle
  14. When you are finished, click Save Quiz Questions.
    Save quiz questions

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Keywordsreport, quick quiz entry, question bank, edit quiz   Doc ID79886
OwnerATLAS-TLTGroupUniversity of Illinois LAS
Created2018-02-05 11:07:32Updated2021-08-13 11:17:32
SitesUniversity of Illinois Liberal Arts and Sciences
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