In Section 2, you design the layout for your quiz page, including which questions or kinds of questions you want to include and any necessary text, images, audio, or files. To complete this section, follow these steps:
- In the Insert drop-down list, select the first component you want your quiz to include. You can select any of the following:
- One or more new questions
The advanced editor gives you a choice of fourteen question types, instead of the ten you are limited to in the basic editor. The four additional types are ungraded survey questionswhich you can use to collect opinions and demographic information. The results are included in reports and export files, where you can analyze students' performance based on these variables.
Select the number of questions you want to add, and the question type, and click Add.
Note: To add various question types, you need to enter them separately.
For information on creating a new question, click the help link for the question.
To delete this component, click Remove.
- One or more specific questions (from the Question Bank)
Your quiz can include questions that already exist in the Question Bank. In other words, you can reuse any question from any of your quizzes.
After you've chosen the questions you want to use, the system displays them in the advanced editor. Use the up and down arrows to reposition a question. You can also change the value in the Points field to override the default point value.
To delete this component, click Remove.
- One or more randomly selected questions (from the Question Bank)
Select this component to add a random block of questions.
You must enter the number of questions in the block, the question label, if applicable, and the question type, if applicable.
For example, you may have a 20-question quiz that you want to include five questions on Chapter 7 of your textbook, in multiple choice format. You already have a variety of questions in your Question Bank labeled by chapter. In this scenario, you would enter 5 for the number of questions, Chapter 7 for the label, and select multiple choice for the question type. When your students take this quiz, each will see a different set of multiple choice questions from Chapter 7.
After you enter your criteria, use the up and down arrows to reposition the random block within your quiz. You can also edit the default value in the Points field.
To delete this component, click Remove.
- Text / HTML
Choose this component to add a block of text, HTML, or LaTeX to your quiz. This component is ideal for adding text that applies to several questions at once, such as a reading passage.
Use the up and down arrows to reposition the text.
To delete this component, click Remove.
- Image
Select this component to add an image to your quiz. The system prompts you to select from images that you previously uploaded. If you have not uploaded your image yet, you must do so in the File Manager.
To delete this component, click Remove.
- Audio
Select this component to add an audio clip to your quiz. The system prompts you to select from files that you previously uploaded. If you have not uploaded your file yet, you must do so in the File Manager.
To delete this component, click Remove.
- File
Select this component to add a file to your quiz, such as a Microsoft Word document,
an MPEG video clip, an Excel spreadsheet, or a PowerPoint presentation. The system prompts you to select from files that you previously uploaded.
If you have not uploaded your file yet, you must do so in the File Manager.
To delete this component, click Remove.
- Once you have added a component to your quiz, the system displays a new Insert list below the item. Using this new field, repeat step 1 as many times as necessary to complete this section.