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Adding Questions to the Question Bank

Learn how to create questions in the question bank

Updated over 6 months ago

Purpose

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to add questions to the Moodle question bank for use in quizzes using a specific quiz type as an example

Note

This article also demonstrates how to employ the questions in the Select missing words type quiz

Procedure

  1. Start in Edit mode

    Button labeled Edit mode

  2. Select the More tab

    Course tabs with the More tab highlighted

  3. Select Question bank

    The More dropdown menu highlighting the Question bank option

  4. Click Create a new question

    Button labeled Create a new question

  5. For this quiz, choose Select missing words from the quiz type options and then click Add

    Quiz type options with Select missing words type quiz chosen

  6. Fill in your question name and the question text. For this type of question, you must place the numerical answer in double square brackets

    Text boxes for the quiz title and a description/instructions

  7. Fill in your answers. The answer must match the choice number

    Quiz answer choices 1-3

  8. Save your changes

    Button labeled Save changes and continue editing

  9. Click the Quiz tab and test your quiz

    Button labeled Preview quiz

  10. Your quiz will look like this

    Sample of quiz appearance

  11. Students will select an answer from a dropdown menu

    View of answer dropdown menu choices

  12. It will look like this on the course page

    Quiz assignment displayed on course page
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