Test and quiz question types (enterprise)

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Test and quiz creation is no longer available on Schoology Basic.

Question types

Emojis are not supported in tests or quizzes.

Question type	Use case	Details	Grading
True/False	Ask questions with binary answer choices.	Enter the statement, and customize the text displayed for the true and false options. Optionally, require the correct answer when students select False. Students not providing the correct answer receive 50 percent credit for the question.	Automatic
Multiple Choice	Assess students' understanding of key concepts by selecting the correct answer from a list of options.	Enter the question and answer choices, indicating the correct answers. Optionally: Randomize the answer choices to scramble the display order for each student. Allow partial credit when selecting at least one but not all correct answers. Each correct answer choice gains one point, but each incorrect answer loses one point. You can manually override the score from within the quiz. Set a time limit for each question. Edit the answer choices to add formatting elements using the rich text editor.	Automatic
Ordering	Evaluate students' ability to put items in a sequential order.	Enter the question and items to order. Optionally, give partial credit for the highest number of consecutive correct answers. Set a minimum continuous sequence.	Automatic
Short answer/Essay	Asses students' abilities to reason, create, analyze, synthesize, or evaluate material.	Enter the question. Optionally: Add a character limit on students' responses. Give students access to Rich Text features. Allow audio or video recordings in question responses. This feature is only available to Enterprise users who use a browser to access Schoology. It is not available on the mobile app.	Manually for each student Add a rubric to evaluate your students' responses and determine if students can review the rubric while answering the question. Go to the Results section of the test or quiz to grade student responses. Select View Attempts for the student and then choose View/Edit from the submission’s gear icon. Click the question’s rubric icon, click each cell to grade each criterion, and then click Save. The rubric score will be the sum of the scores on each criterion out of the total number of possible points. The rubric score will then be converted to an equivalent percentage of the question’s points.
Fill-in-the-blank	Evaluate students' ability to recall specific information and complete sentences with the correct terms.	Enter the sentence by typing one underscore where the blank should be placed. Add additional underscores if you want to have multiple blanks in the question. Then, enter the answers for each blank.	Automatic
Matching	Assess students' abilities to identify pairs.	Enter instructions, and then enter each question and answer pair. Optionally, rearrange the order of the question and answer pairs If an answer is used more than once, it will only be displayed once to the student. Questions are displayed in the order you define. Answers will be shuffled. When exporting tests or quizzes from your Resources area, the file size limit is 10GB. The following question types are not available in the current version of Common Cartridge (v1.3) that is exported: Matching with more than one blank Fill in the blank with more than one blank Ordering	Automatic

Question-level settings

Timed questions

Select Timed questions to set a time limit, in minutes, for students to answer a specific question. After the time limit passes, the test automatically advances to the next question.

When a test or quiz has at least one question with a time limit, students cannot review questions before they submit. If students click the browser’s Back button to return to the timed question after the time limit has passed, they will be forced to start over or submit the test or quiz prematurely.
If the last question of a test is timed, the test is automatically submitted after the time runs out.

Selecting Timed question when creating the question automatically formats the test or quiz for one question per page.

Show feedback

Select Show feedback to incorporate automated feedback or provide explanations to students about the correct and incorrect answers for each question after they submit a test or quiz.

Set View Submissions to Yes in the test or quiz settings so students can review your feedback.

Subjective questions

You can mark matching and true or false question types as subjective. While the course administrator indicate the correct answer, subjective questions are not graded automatically. Instead, they must be manually scored before the student’s final grade is calculated.

The subjective setting does not prevent the correct answer from displaying.

When a student answers a subjective question incorrectly and the View Submissions setting is enabled, a green or red indicator will display when they review their answer. However, Pending review will display instead of a score.