Creating a Quiz
The "Quiz" activity in LATTE allows professors to build quizzes with many different question types and administer them through LATTE.
How to Create a Quiz
Step 1: From the course homepage, click the "Turn Editing On" button on the upper left-hand side of your course homepage.
Step 2: In the section of the course outline you want to add the quiz, click the down arrow next to the Add an Activity... option box.
Step 3: From the drop-down menu, select Quiz
Step 4: The Adding a new Quiz… page will open. Enter a name for the quiz and introduction.
Step 5: Modify the settings to fit your course needs:
- Timing
- Time limit (minutes): by default the time limit is disabled, allowing students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you wish to enforce a time limit, check the Enable box and enter the number of minutes you wish to give students to complete the quiz
- Attempts
- Each attempt builds on the last: if Yes is selected, every time the student makes a new attempt at the quiz the results of the last quiz will be displayed. For a fresh start, select No
- Adaptive mode: If Yes is selected, then the student will be allowed multiple responses to a question within the same attempt at the quiz. For example, if the student's response is marked as incorrect the student will be allowed to try again immediately; however a penalty will usually be subtracted from the students score for each wrong attempt (the penalty is determined by the penalty factor).
- Grades
- Apply penalties: when adaptive mode is selected, Yes will subtract a penalty for every incorrect attempt, No will not apply a penalty for incorrect attempts. The amount of penalty is chosen individually for each question when setting up or editing the question.
Step 6: Click either Save and return to course to return to the main course page or Save and display to add questions to the quiz.
How to Add Questions to a Quiz
Step 1: Display the quiz
Step 2: The first time you display your quiz (before you have added any questions), you will see the following page:
If you do not see this page, click on the Edit tab and select Quiz.
Step 3: Begin adding questions using the Question bank box. Select a question type from the Create new question dropdown menu.
Step 4: Enter a name for the question (this will help you identify the question when looking at a list of your questions) and the question text.
Step 5: Supply answers (and sub questions as the question type requires)
Step 6: Click Save Changes to return to the Editing Quiz
Step 7: Check the box next to the question under the Action column, then click the "< Add to quiz" button under With selected: to add the questions to the quiz. They will now appear in the Questions in this quiz panel on the Quiz page.
Step 8: Repeat Steps 3-7 to continue adding questions. You can also add questions to the quiz in batches by adding them to the question bank (Steps 3-6) then selecting multiple questions at one time (by checking the boxes under the Action column) and clicking the Add to quiz button.
Step 9: Once you have added all of your questions to the quiz, you can preview it by clicking the Preview tab.
Step 10: When you are satisfied with the quiz, return to the course page.
How to View Responses to a Quiz
Step 1: Display the quiz
Step 2: Click on the "Results" tab
Step 3: Click on the "Started on," "Completed on," or "Grade" entry for the attempt you wish to view.
Step 4: When you are done reviewing the attempt you can return to the Results by clicking "Overview" just below the "Results" tab
If you have further questions about using the Questionnaire activity please contact LATTE Help at latte@brandeis.edu, x6LTTE (x65883) or 781-736-5883.