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Course materials: Tests/Quizzes (instructors)

Create tests and quizzes in your Schoology course to assess your student’s grasp of the material or evaluate their preparedness for class. Each test or quiz is automatically graded, except for subjective questions, giving you instant feedback to guide your lesson plans.

You can manually override grades, add comments, and customize settings for each test and quiz.

Create tests and quizzes

  1. Navigate to a course.

  2. Select Add Materials and choose Add Test/Quiz from the list.

  3. Enter the test or quiz information. Refer to the Test and quiz options details table for more information.

  4. Click Create to complete.

Tests and quizzes can also be created from course folders or added to folders after creation.

Test and quiz options details

Options

Details

Individually Assign

Displays the assignment to specific course members or a grading group.

Grade Statistics

Displays the assignment statistics to students via an icon located with the assignment submissions.

Comments

Allows students to post comments.

Copy to

Copy the assignment with the current settings and options to another course you administer.

Add questions

  1. From the test or quiz, select Add Question and choose a question type from the list.

  2. Enter the question details.

    • Optionally, for multiple-choice or true or false questions, add feedback.

      1. Click Show Feedback.

      2. Enter answer-level feedback for each answer choice.

      3. Enter Incorrect Response Feedback and Correct Response Feedback.

  3. Click Create Question.

  • Add up to 200 questions per test or quiz.

  • Emojis are not supported in tests and quizzes.

Edit settings

  1. Navigate to a course.

  2. Choose the test or quiz.

  3. Select Settings.

  4. Adjust the test or quiz options.

  • The default setting for test or quiz availability is Disable. If your students can open the test or quiz but Start New Attempt is not available, you may need to change this setting to one of the Enable options.

  • The time limit setting does not control setting a time limit for individual questions.

Preview a test or quiz

Navigate to a course, choose the test or quiz, and select Preview to check your questions and settings before you make the test available to students.