Creating Quizzes

You can create and store all types of activities in your Dashboard. This topic outlines the steps for creating quiz type activities that students complete individually. Quizzes are any type of activity that contains questions. For information about creating discussion activities, see “Creating Discussions.” For information on managing the content in your Dashboard, see “Courses.”

To view a video of the following procedure, navigate to the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY0jqXJ07Q8

1.On the Dashboard screen, click Content on the course for which you want to create the quiz.

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The Content screen displays.

2.Click add_button.png on the top right of the screen, then click Quiz.

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The New Quiz window opens.

3.Enter a Name for the quiz.

Note: If you want to change the name of the quiz or edit its instructions later on, on the Dashboard, click Content on the associated course. Then, click the name of the activity on the Content screen. You can then change the name on the Details screen. See “Adding Instructions.”

4.Click Create.

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The quiz now displays on the Content screen for the course.

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Note: Once you create the quiz, you can start adding content to it, such as instructions, questions, and reference material. See “Adding Content to Quizzes and Common Assessments.”