Quizzes come with the Quizzes & certificates add-on, $29 CAD one time for every course on your account. Get it on the Add-ons page in your dashboard's sidebar. It also gives students who finish a certificate.
Open a lesson
On the Lessons tab, click a lesson to open it in the editor, and click where you'd like the quiz to go, usually at the end.
Add a quiz
Click More in the toolbar and choose Quiz, or type / and then "quiz". The quiz panel opens. Without the add-on, it says Quizzes are an add-on, and See add-ons takes you to the Add-ons page.
Name it and set the pass mark
Give it a Quiz title students will see, like "Check your understanding". Set the Pass mark, from 1 to 100%: it starts at 80%. Choose how many Tries students get: Unlimited to start with, or 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10.
Write your questions
Each question is one of three kinds. One right answer: write at least two answers and choose the right one. More than one right answer: tick every right answer; students need all of them, and none of the others. True or false: choose which one is right. Click Add a question for the next one, and use the arrows to put them in order.
Choose whether it's needed
Needed to complete the lesson is ticked to start with: students pass the quiz before they can mark the lesson complete. Untick it to make the quiz optional. Then click Save quiz.
Publish your changes
Go to Publish and click Publish changes. Course Mark won't publish a quiz that isn't finished, like a question with no right answer: it tells you which lesson to open. Click Edit quiz on the quiz to finish it.
Try it as a student
Click Preview course, or add yourself on the Students tab and open the login link Course Mark emails you. Pick your answers and click Check my answers. Get one wrong on purpose to see what students see.
What students see
- The questions come in a new order on every try, and so do the answers to each one (true or false stays in that order), so nobody passes by remembering where the right one was.
- After Check my answers, they see their score, like "You got 3 of 4 (75%). You need 80% to pass.", and the questions they got wrong, with Try again. They never see which answers were right.
- Once they pass, it says You passed! and stays passed, even if they take it again for practice and do worse.
- With a set number of tries, the quiz shows how many are left. Once they're used up, it says so and points them to your support email, from your Brand settings. You can give them one more try from Quiz results.
- Their results are saved to their email, so they follow them to any device.
See how students are doing
Open the Students page (your dashboard's, for every course, or the course's own tab). Quiz results are in three places:
- Quiz results, along the top, quiz by quiz: how many have passed, how many are still trying, the average best score, and each student's best score, tries and last try. Missed most on a first try lists the questions students got wrong the first time. A question near the top is a sign the lesson could explain it more. Download spreadsheet saves every result.
- Each student's row says how many of their quizzes they've passed, like 1 of 2 quizzes passed.
- Stuck on a quiz, one of the list's filters: students who've tried a quiz and haven't passed it yet. Copy their emails copies just that group's addresses, to send them a pointer to the right lesson.
A student who's used all their tries shows Used all their tries, with Give one more try. Click it once for each extra try. They see it the next time they open the lesson.
Good to know
- Course Mark marks every try on its own servers, and the right answers are never sent to the course page, so they can't be found in the page's code.
- A lesson can have up to 5 quizzes, each with up to 50 questions and 8 answers a question.
- Want students to pass before they move on? Pair a needed quiz with lessons that open in order: the next lesson opens once they've passed and completed this one.
- Changing a quiz after students have taken it keeps their tries and their pass. Copying a lesson's text into another lesson doesn't copy its quiz: add a new one there.
- Without the add-on, quizzes are left out of your published course, and the rest of the lesson stays as it is.
- In Preview course and in a downloaded copy of your course, quizzes are for practice: they're marked on that device, and never hold a lesson back.
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Still stuck?
In the builder, click Help and tell me what's happening: I'll see which course you mean. Or email support@coursemark.co.