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Add a Quiz

Updated by Carolina Martin

Quizzes check what learners have understood, for example as a knowledge check after a lesson or a final test at the end of a course. Coursebox AI can write the questions for you, and you can edit them or add your own.

Add a quiz

  1. In the course editor, click + Add block and choose Quiz from the Assessments column.

Add block panel opened from the page, with the Add block button and the Assessments column outlined

  1. In the Generate New Quiz Questions With AI window, leave Use Course Content on to base the questions on your course.

  2. Describe what the questions should be about.

  3. Enter the Number of new quiz questions.

  4. Under Question types to generate, choose one or more of Multiple Choice (Single Answer), Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers), Short Answer and Drag and Drop.

  5. Click Generate Questions.

Generate New Quiz Questions With AI window with the question types and Generate Questions outlined

If you close the window without generating, the quiz shows the question types to choose from: Single choice, Multiple choice, Short Answer, Drag and Drop and AI Quiz Writer. AI Quiz Writer generates questions from the course's content. Always check the questions and correct answers before you publish.

New quiz with the Single choice, Multiple choice, Short Answer, Drag and Drop and AI Quiz Writer cards and the Save button and gear icon outlined

Click Save at the top of the quiz to save your changes.

Quiz settings

Click the gear icon at the top of the quiz to open Quiz settings.

Quiz settings opened from the gear icon, with Pass grade, the four quiz options and Delete quiz outlined

  • Pass grade: the percentage learners need to pass, averaged across all questions. Changing it doesn't affect learners who have already completed the course.

  • Show correct answers when partially correct: learners see which of their selected answers are right and which are wrong, even if they haven't selected every correct answer. When it's off, all their selected answers show as incorrect unless the whole question is right.

  • Reset the quiz upon reattempt: clears all answers when a learner retakes the quiz, so they answer every question again. When it's off, they see their earlier answers and only change the incorrect ones.

  • Graded quiz: the score counts towards the course grade. When it's off, the quiz is practice only.

  • Show AI feedback for short answers: learners get AI feedback explaining why their short answer was marked correct or incorrect. When it's off, they only see whether it was correct.

Delete quiz at the bottom of Quiz settings deletes the quiz.

Add and edit questions

Each question has a numbered tab below it. Click a number to edit that question, or click Add question (+) and choose a question type.

Add question menu open under the question tabs, with Single choice, Multiple choice, Short Answer and Drag and Drop outlined

  • Single choice: learners pick one correct answer.

  • Multiple choice: learners pick every correct answer.

  • Short Answer: learners type their answer, and AI marks it against the correct answer you give.

  • Drag and Drop: learners drag items onto their matching pair.

For each question:

  1. Click Question and type your question. To add an image, click More formatting (⋯) in the text toolbar, then the image icon.

  2. Click Add answer and type each answer. Add at least two.

  3. Click the circle next to each correct answer to mark it as correct.

  4. To remove an answer, click the × next to it.

  5. To give learners a tip when they answer wrongly, click Add hint.

  6. Click Save.

Quiz question with a correct answer marked, the remove answer button, Add answer, Add hint, the question tabs and Save outlined

What learners see

Learners see the pass mark (for example, "To pass the quiz you must answer 80% of the questions correctly") and click Get Started. For each question they tick their answer and click Submit, or click the microphone and say the answer's position, such as "one" or "first". The numbered tabs at the top let them move between questions and go back to ones they got wrong.

Learner view of a quiz question with the numbered question tabs and the microphone outlined

Change how the quiz looks

Text size

Quiz text uses the course's body text size. To change it, click Course settings (the gear icon) in the course editor, click Font and change the size for Body text. Check the result in learner view.

Button colour

Quiz buttons such as Submit use your portal's Brand colour, not the course theme. To change it, open your profile menu and go to Theme Settings → Colors → Portal Colors → Brand. See Platform Theme.

Plan requirement: Portal branding, including the Brand colour, is available on Pro and above. On Free and Creator, quiz buttons keep the default colour.

See learners' results

To see how learners did, open the course report: in the course editor, click More (⋮) and choose Course report, or go to Reports in the left menu and click the course. Quiz performance shows each quiz's pass rate and the hardest questions, and you can search the Learners table by name or email, then click a learner to see their answers question by question. See Report Management.