Certain student disability accommodations will require that you provide extended time to specific students for examinations. This also applies to quizzes given in Moodle. The user overrides function will allow you to set unique time limits for specific students.

1. From your course page, click on the quiz () to go to its summary page.
2. Once on the summary page, go to the Administration block and click .
3. Click the  button.
4. Select the student in the  list (use the  box if necessary).
5. Change the value in the  field to one appropriate for the student’s accommodation.
6. Click  to extend time for additional students, or click  when done.

Once students have finished a quiz attempt, you will be able to review their quiz attempt to see how well they scored, how much time they took, which answers were answered correctly or incorrectly, etc. Additionally, if you have quiz questions that can’t be automatically graded (like essay questions) you will need to view student exams to grade them.

1. From your course page, click on the quiz () to go to its summary page.
2. If the quiz has been attempted, you will see the number of  made so far. Click this link to see the attempts.
3. On the results page, you’ll see a list of students and their attempts. You will see when the attempt was started, when it ended, the time taken and (if there are no manually graded questions) their overall grade for the attempt. Their performance on individual questions is listed to the right: a  indicates a correct answer while a  indicates an incorrect answer. Any question that must be manually graded will read .
4. To see a complete layout of a student’s attempt, click the  link under their name. This will show you the entire quiz with their responses. To give feedback, change an automatic grade, or grade a manually-graded question, click the  link below the question and enter a  and (optionally) a . Click  when done.
5. If you have several questions that must be manually graded and you want to grade them quickly, go to the Administration block and click . This will show you a list of questions that still require grading. Click the  link next to a question to grade that question for all students. Enter a  and (optionally) a  for each student and click  to save your grading changes.

Once a quiz is created, you will need to create questions from a variety of question types and add them to the quiz. You can create questions directly from within the quiz itself.

1. From your course page, click on the quiz () to go to its summary page (if you are not there already).
2. If no questions have been added yet, there will be an  button on this page. Click on it to begin adding questions. If you have already added questions, you can always go to the Administration block and click .
3. You will be taken to the quiz editing page. Click the  button for any page listed to create a question on that page.
4. From the pop-up that appears, select a question type from the list on the left. Once you have selected one, a description of that question type appears on the right. Click  to begin building the question.
5. Enter a , the , and a . The question name is how the question is labeled when building quizzes and is not visible to students. The question text is the question prompt students will answer. The default mark is how much this question is worth relative to other questions in the quiz (not point value).
6. Depending on the question type, you will need to specify the rest of the question’s options. For example, for a multiple choice question, you will need to provide a list of possible answers and select which one gets 100% of the grade (i.e., which answer is correct).
7. Once you’re done building the question, click .
8. You can continue to click  to add more questions to the page, or you can click  to create a new page of questions.
9. When you’re done, make sure you enter a  in the blank at the top and click .

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The Quiz activity allows you to create quizzes that students take online. You can make use of a wide variety of question types, including multiple choice, true-false, and short answer. These questions are kept in the Question bank and can be re-used in different quizzes.

1. From your course’s main page, click the  button in the upper-right.
2. With editing turned on, click  in the section where you want to add the assignment.
3. From the menu that appears, click the  next to  and click the  button at the bottom of the menu.
4. Provide a  for the quiz. You can also provide a  for the quiz. The name is how the quiz will be displayed on the course page, in the gradebook, etc. The description is what the students will see before they attempt a quiz, and is useful for providing prompts or instructions.
5. Open the  menu to set time limits on the quiz. You can specify when to , when to , and whether the quiz has a . Ensure that the  checkbox is checked for any option you want to use.
6. Click the  section to expand it. Specify which  the quiz will go in (if any). You can also set the number of  and the  for those multiple attempts (e.g. take the highest grade, take the most recent grade, take the average grade, etc.).
7. Click  when done.

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