Quizzes: Questions

Each quiz in JoomLMS can have multiple questions. You can create new questions of multiple types directly in a specific quiz or link existing questions from Question Pools. This section of the manual describes how to create and link questions to a quiz, various settings available for questions and how to configure them, and lists all the question types available in JoomLMS.

To enter the Question management part of the course Quizzes section, enter the Quizzes section first, then click on the name of an existing quiz or the Question Pool. The list of questions in the Question management section can be filtered by the Question type, the Question category and the Quiz/Question Pool where the questions belong.

Creating Questions

You can create new questions directly in a specific quiz where the question should belong or add questions to the course Question Pool or the Global Question Pool (PRO version only) and then link them to a specific quiz later. New questions of all types are created according to the same procedure but the set of available parameters for each question type differs slightly. You can create a new question in the following way:

1. In the Question management section of a specific quiz or the Question Pool, click New and select from the drop-down menu the type of the question you wish to add. You will be redirected to the new question page.

    

2. Configure the settings for the new question, as described in the Question Parameters section of this article. 
3. Under the Question Options, add the answers options if the type of the question allows that.

   Tip: To add an answer option, enter the text of the answer into the empty field under Question Options and click Add option to save the option. Repeat to create multiple options, if necessary. To remove an answer option click the Delete () icon next to it.

   Warning: Make sure to select the correct answer option by checking the box next to it. If no correct options are selected, all answer options will be marked as incorrect by the system.

4. Click Apply if you wish to preview the question at once after it is created or Save to save the changes and return to the list of questions. You will see the new question in the list of questions of a certain quiz or Question Pool where you chose to create it. 

   Note: Some types of questions (especially the types of questions that allow adding images as answer options) might require additional configuration, see Question Types for more details.

Question Parameters

For each question of a quiz you can configure a number of parameters, some of which are the same for all the types of questions and some are specific to some question types. For more details on how the questions of specific types work, see the Question Types section of this article. This is the complete list of all the settings available for all the types of questions in JoomLMS (an empty table cell means 'same as above'):

Tab	Question Type	Parameter	Description
Parameters	All	Question Text	Enter the text of the question.
		Published	Select Yes, if the question should be visible to Students, or No, if you don't want the Students to see it yet.
		Quiz	Select the quiz to which you wish to assign this question.
		Category	Select the question category to which you wish to assign this question.
		Points	Select the number of points the Students will receive if they answer this question correctly. By default 0 is set, which means the Student will not receive any points.
		Attempts	Select the number of attempts the Students will have to answer this question within a single quiz attempt. Students can return to the question to re-answer it via the Previous/Next buttons (if the Previous button is enabled in the quiz settings) or via the Contents button in the Learning Path (if the Show quiz contents option is enabled in the quiz settings).
		Ordering	Select the position for the question in the list of existing questions of the selected quiz.
		Question text position	Select Top, if the question text should be displayed above the answer options. Select Bottom, of the question text should be displayed below the answer options.
		Randomize answers	Select Yes, if you want the answer options to be displayed in a random order for each new quiz attempt. Select No, if you want the answer options to be always displayed in the defined order.
		Survey question (non-graded)?	Select Yes, if the answer to this question should not be marked as correct/incorrect by the system. In that case, no points will be awarded for this question, regardless of the answer option selected. Select No, if the answer should be marked as correct/incorrect. In that case, points will be awarded for this question, if the Student selects the correct answer option.
		Compulsory question	This option becomes active only if Yes is selected for the Survey question (non-graded)? option. Select Yes, if the Students are required to select an answer option. Select No, if the Students should be able to leave the question unanswered.
	Fill in the Blank	Case-sensitive	Select Yes, if the correct answer to this question is case-sensitive. In that case, if a Student enters the correct answer option but e.g. in lower case instead of capitalized, the provided answer will still be considered incorrect. Select No, if the answer is not case-sensitive.
		Default answer	Enter an example of an answer, to give your Students an idea of what kind of answer they should provide. The default answer is not the correct/acceptable answer to the question, it is only a sample of e.g. formatting.
	Hotspot	Image	Select the image you want to use for this question from the drop-down menu. If you don't see the required image in the list, click the Save Image() icon to upload a new image for the question. A popup window will open: click Choose file to locate the image on your local device, then click Upload to complete the upload of the image. Click Apply to update the list of images available for the question after the upload is complete.
	Likert Scale	Scale Values	Enter a scale value that the Students will be able to select to express their opinion regarding each answer option. Click Add option to save the scale value. Repeat to create multiple values.
Feedbacks	All	Disable question feedback	Select Yes, if you don't want any feedback to be provided when Students answer this quiz question. If you enable this setting, Students will see no feedback at all after they answer this question, they will be simply redirected to the next quiz question. Select No, if you want the Students to receive feedback that the answer is correct/incorrect/accepted (depends on the type of the question).
		if the answer is correct, display	Enter your own custom feedback in this field, if you want to replace the default feedback for the correct answer to the question, provided by a Student. By default, the feedback to the correct answer to a question is Your answer is correct.
		if the answer is incorrect, display	Enter your own custom feedback in this field, if you want to replace the default feedback for the incorrect answer to the question, provided by a Student. By default, the feedback to the incorrect answer to a question is Your answer is incorrect.
Review	All	Question Explanation	Enter some details to explain why the correct answer to this question is the one that the Students should have chosen. The explanation will be displayed in the Review mode, if the respective quiz setting is enabled.

 

Question Types

This is the list of all the question types available in JoomLMS with illustrated examples.

Multiple Choice

The Multiple Choice type of question is a question that has multiple answer options but only one of the options is correct. The Students have to select this answer option in order for the question to be marked as correct.

 

Multiple Response

The Multiple Response type of question is a question that has multiple answer options and several of the options are correct. The Students have to select all the correct answer options in order for the question to be marked as correct. If not all the correct answer options are selected, the question will be marked as incorrect even, if some of the correct answer options are selected.

 

True/False

The True/False type of question is a question that can only be answered with True or False.

 

Matching Drag and Drop

The Matching Drag and Drop type of question is a question with a number of answer options in two separate columns that should be matched with each other correctly. The Students need to click on the answer option in the second column, drag it to the matching option in the first column and then let go so that the two matching options 'stick' together.

 

 

Matching Drop-Down

The Matching Drop-Down type of question is a question with a number of answer options and drop-down lists next to each option. The Students should select the item from the drop-down list that matches the respective answer option.

 

Fill in the Blank

The Fill in the Blank type of question is a statement with a missing word which the Students need to correctly fill in. If there can be several correct answer options, it is necessary to specify all of them under the acceptable answers.

 

Hotspot

The Hotspot type of question is a question, the correct answer to which is a certain area in the attached image. To give the correct answer, the Students should select (put a spot on) the correct area of the image.

 

Note: To select the area of the attached image that should be selected as the correct answer, click once in the top left corner of the area you need to select on the image, then move the cursor to expand the selection. To finish the area selection, click once in the bottom right corner of the selected area. You don't need to hold the mouse button during the selection, just click once to begin the selection process and then click once to finish it.

Surveys

The Surveys type of question is a question with no correct answer. The Students will see a blank text area, where they can put anything to answer the question. This type of question is generally used to gather some opinions/feedback.

 

Likert Scale

The Likert Scale type of question is a question with a set of answer options and opinion options but no correct answer. The Students will see a set of statements and a scale they can use to express their opinion on each statement. This type of question is generally used to gather some opinions/feedback.

 

Boilerplate

The Boilerplate type of question is not really a question, this is just an option to insert some additional information/instructions in the middle of the quiz. The Students will only see the text you enter on this page, no actions will be required, after reading the text the Students can move to the next question.

 

Matching Drag and Drop Images

The Matching Drag and Drop Images type of question a question with a number of answer options (represented by images) in two separate columns that should be matched with each other correctly. The Students need to click on the answer option in the second column, drag it to the matching option in the first column and then let go so that the two matching options 'stick' together.

 

Multiple Image Choice

The Multiple Image Choice type of question is a question that has multiple answer options (represented by images) but only one of the options is correct. The Students have to select this answer option in order for the question to be marked as correct.

 

Multiple Image Response

The Multiple Image Response type of question is a question that has multiple answer options (represented by images) and several of the options are correct. The Students have to select all the correct answer options in order for the question to be marked as correct. If not all the correct answer options are selected, the question will be marked as incorrect even, if some of the correct answer options are selected.

 

Adding a question from Question Pool/Global Question Pool

You can link the existing questions from the course Question Pool or the Global Question Pool (Pro version only) to the quiz one by one in the following way:

1. From the New drop-down menu, select either Add from question pool or Add from global question pool. The question selection page will open.
2. Make sure the correct quiz to which you wish to add the new question is selected in the Quiz drop-down menu.
3. Select the question that you wish to add to the quiz from the Select question from the pool drop-down menu. The question will not be moved or copied from the question pool to the quiz, it will be only linked to the quiz and included in the list of questions for every new quiz attempt.
4. From the Ordering drop-down menu select First item, if you want the new question to be displayed first during a quiz attempt, or Last item, if you want the question to be displayed last. Alternatively, select a specific question, after which the new question from the pool should be displayed during a quiz attempt. 
5. Click Save to complete linking the question from the pool. You will see the new question in the list of questions for a specific quiz.