Advanced Quizzes
Quia's Advanced quiz editor offers you a powerful tool for testing your students' knowledge. At the same time, the common-sense design of the quiz editor means you'll spend less time writing questions and grading results.
Differences between Advanced and Basic quizzes
Advanced quizzes are different from Basic quizzes in two ways:
- The Advanced quiz editor has more features. These extra features are listed in this comparison chart.
- When you copy a quiz using the Advanced quiz editor, you have the option to share the questions between the original quiz and the copied version. This is useful, for example, because if you discover an error in one of the questions, you can change it in one place - the Question Bank - and Quia will apply the change to every quiz that includes the question.
Creating a new quiz with the Advanced quiz editor
Click Create a new quiz to open the advanced quiz editor.
Once you've created a quiz, Quia lists it in the My Quizzes section.
My Quizzes
Quia lists your quizzes in the My Quizzes section, where you can perform a variety of actions on your quizzes.
Folders
You can organize your quizzes into folders. To do so, enter a folder name in the New folder name field and click Create. If you want to place an existing quiz in your new folder, use the Other actions... menu.
To view the quizzes inside a folder, click the folder or click the Open link for that folder.
To rename a folder, click the Rename link for it.
To delete a folder, click the Delete link for it.
Quizzes
You can perform a variety of tasks for your quizzes and view useful information related to them, as described below:
- Display on profile page - Click this icon to display or remove the quiz from your profile page.
indicates it is on your profile page. 
indicates it is not on your profile page. - URL - Click on the URL for a quiz to view it.
- Edit - Click this link to make changes to the quiz.
If you had not yet finished creating the quiz, Quia displays the remaining steps in the editor window. - Assign - Click this link to define the assignment settings for a quiz and assign it to your students.
- Grade - Click this link to view and grade student responses to a quiz.
Although Quia does much of the grading for you, you may still need to grade some types of questions, such as essays. - Preview - Click
to see how your quiz will look to students. - Reports - Click
to generate student reports for a quiz. - E-mail - Click
to send a link
to your quiz via e-mail to students or friends. - Copy - Click
to create a duplicate of a quiz.
This is useful if you want to create a quiz that is slightly different from an existing quiz. After making a duplicate, you can edit one of the versions to incorporate your modifications. When you duplicate a quiz with the Advanced quiz editor, you can share questions between multiple copies of quizzes. When you do this, Quia applies any changes you make to a shared question to all quizzes that include it. This feature is not available with the Basic quiz editor. - Print - Click
to print a hard copy of a quiz. Quia formats the quiz for printing.
Select File > Print from your browser to send the quiz to your printer. - Export - Click
to export student results for a quiz to a file that you can save on your computer.
Quia saves it in CSV (comma-separated value) format, which you can easily import into Microsoft Excel and some gradebook programs. - Archive - Click
to archive student results for a quiz.
This is useful if you want to save former students' scores for record-keeping but don't want them intermingled with scores from your current students. - Delete - Click
to delete the quiz.
Quia will also delete all student scores associated with the quiz. - Under construction - If you have begun creating a quiz but have not yet finished it, Quia displays
for it. - Disabled - If your quiz is disabled, Quia displays
for it. Students cannot take a disabled quiz.
To disable a quiz, click the Assign link for it and change the Enabled setting to No, then click Done. To enable a disabled quiz, click the Assign link for it and change the Enabled? setting to Yes, then click Done. - Count - This column displays the number of students who have taken a quiz and submitted answers for it.
Other actions
Use the Other actions... menu to perform various actions on one or more quizzes at a time. Select the check boxes for the quizzes you want and choose an option from the menu.
- Archive results and reset count - Select this to archive and reset the count for the selected quizzes.
- Assign to class - Select this to assign all of the selected quizzes to a class.
- Delete - Select this to delete the selected quizzes.
- Profile options - In this section, select Add to profile or Hide from profile to show or hide the selected quizzes on your profile page.
- Network options - In this section, select Sharing: on or Sharing: off to change the network sharing option for the selected quizzes. For more information, click here.
- Move to - In this section, select a folder to move all the selected quizzes to that folder.