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1. To create a Quiz remember to toggle Edit mode to on. 
2. In the topic where you want the quiz to appear, click on the Add an activity or resource link and select Quiz.
3. Give the quiz a meaningful and unambiguous Name.
4. Enter whether the assessment is summative or formative
5. In the Description, explain clearly what the students have to do, any pre-quiz requirements and so on. Note you can use the Editor to add links, images etc.
6. For Timing, you can choose when the quiz is available to students, by setting an open date/time and closed date/time. Tick the Enable box to allow this. When a Time limit is set, Moodle will automatically submit the quiz after this time expires. The student is warned when time runs low. You can also set a time limit on the quiz. We recommend you set When time expires to Open attempts are submitted automatically.
7. Grade controls which Grade category the results will come under, Attempts allowed controls how many attempts your students are allowed to take, and Grading Method controls how multiple attempts (if allowed) are graded.
8. Layout - Placing Every question on a New page is recommended for exams, as student responses will be saved every time they change page.
9. Question Behaviour - Shuffling within the question (i.e. randomising the answers) can also help stop repetition, predictable patterns and cheating off a neighbour (in exams). You can choose which kind of feedback (if any) to provide students. For exams, you will probably want to keep this set to deferred feedback. 
10. Review options - Information is presented at various stages throughout the quiz - for exams, these should all be unchecked so students can't see their attempts or marks.
11. Appearance - Here you have options for the display such as whether the student's profile picture shows, the number of decimal places for a question, for the quiz and whether to show the usual Moodle blocks at the side of the quiz.
12. Extra Restrictions on attempts - If you are setting an exam, you should require a password. If you need to check what it is, click the Reveal icon to the right.
13. Overall feedback - This is the feedback that is shown after a quiz has been attempted. You can also specify feedback depending on grade boundaries (as a mark or percentage).
14. Note: If editing a quiz, you can also send a content notification to students if required by ticking the checkbox to the right of Send content change notification at the bottom.
15. Once you are happy with the settings, click Save and display.  
16. Go to the Questions tab. If you would like the questions to appear in a random order for each student for each attempt, tick the Shuffle checkbox in the top right. Shuffling the question order randomly can help stop repetition, predictable patterns and cheating off a neighbour (in exams). If you want the questions to display in the order they appear on the edit screen, leave the shuffle checkbox unchecked.
17. To add questions, go to the Questions tab and click the Add dropdown menu, then +new question. Alternatively, you may wish to create questions in the question bank and then allow Moodle to randomly assign a question from a particular category for that student. To add questions to the question bank, go to the Question bank tab and then click the Create a new question button in the relevant question bank category, then choose the relevant question type and follow the usual steps for question creation. 

Moodle Exam guard

Exam guard will prevent users from editing their course from 10 minutes before the start of a Moodle quiz until 10 minutes after the quiz has finished. Exam guard does this by looking at the “open the quiz”/ “close the quiz”  setting when a Moodle quiz is created. The course editing freeze will only apply where the Moodle quiz is open for less than 5 hours as it is designed to target Moodle quizzes being used for controlled condition exams.

A banner will appear at the top of your course when Exam guard is in effect.

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Exam guard will work automatically and should have no impact on the majority of workflows. You can still post to forums, and mark submissions in other assignments. You can also add user overrides for late minute ECs and SORA students to a quiz. However, you will not be able to edit course settings or create or edit activities in their course while the exam is running.

You will no longer be able to manually unhide and release a Moodle quiz by making the quiz visible at the exam start time. This workflow is not recommended or required. A better approach is for staff to set the Moodle “open the quiz” setting to the exam start date and time when creating the quiz. Students will see the quiz item on Moodle but aren’t able to access the questions or begin the quiz before the open date and time so there is no risk your exam is released early.

Grading a Quiz

If you wish to assign points to individual questions, see the Moodle guidance on assigning points.

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Overview of question types

You may add a variety of different types of questions in the Quiz activity:

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