Question Type

You may add a variety of different types of questions in the Quiz and Lesson modules.This page is about Quiz module question types; some will be similar to lesson questions types,which are fewer in number and function differently.The standard quiz question types are listed below with brief descriptions.

Multiple

Multiple choice questions is a form of an objective assessment in which respondents are asked to select only correct answers from the choices offered as a list.

Multiple answer

The teacher can select "multiple answers are allowed" in a Multiple Choice question type. "Multiple answers" questions types in a quiz allow one or more answers to be chosen by providing check boxes next to the answers.

True/ false

A simple from of multiple choice question with just the two choices 'Ture' and 'False'

fill in the blanks

A fill in the Blank question consists of a phrase, sentence, or paragraph with a blank space where a student provides the missing word or words.

Match columns

Matching questions have a content area and a list of names or statements which must be correctly matched against another list of names or statements.

Images

Image questions allow you to show a visualization of the answer options for respondents to review and select. Instead of selecting any random option, respondents can scroll over the image and pick the one that best suits their answer.

Open Ended

Open-ended questions are free-form survey questions that allow respondents to answer in open text format so that they can answer based on their complete knowledge, feeling, and understanding. It means that the response to this question is not limited to a set of options.

Question set-up in Question Bank

Select the question Question bank. teacher to create, preview, and edit questions in a database of question categories. The categories can be limited to being used on the site, course or quiz level.

Adding a random question

As long as you have questions in the question bank, you can add random questions to your quiz by clicking 'Add' and then '+ a random question'. This might be useful if you have students in a class taking a quiz at the same time, because they are unlikely to get the same questions at the same time. The same question will never appear twice in a quiz. If you include several random questions then different questions will always be chosen for each of them. If you mix random questions with non-random questions then the random questions will be chosen so that they do not duplicate one of the non-random questions.