Each quiz holds any number of questions across five types: Multiple Choice, True/False, Multi-Select, Matching and Short Answer. With Pro there’s a sixth, Essay, which is graded by hand in the grading queue.
In the quiz’s Grading & Attempts settings you set:
- the passing score
- the maximum attempts (0 means unlimited)
- a time limit in seconds (0 means none)
Questions that can be graded automatically are scored the moment the student submits.
What counts as an attempt
Only an attempt the student submitted, and that an instructor hasn’t reset. The start screen shows the count, like Attempts: 1 / 3, and says No attempts remaining. once they’re used up. See Reset a student’s quiz attempts.
Timed quizzes
The clock starts when the student starts the quiz, and leaving the page doesn’t stop it. The countdown always shows the time really left, even when the student comes back to a tab they left in the background. When it hits zero, the quiz is submitted with the answers on screen.
A student who leaves and comes back after the time ran out isn’t stuck. The old attempt stays as it was, marked Expired, and doesn’t count. They start a new attempt with the full time.
On/off settings
Require passing grade to advance and Randomize question order are saved the moment you tick or untick them.
Working through a long quiz
Each question is a collapsed row showing its number, text and type. Click the row to open it, and click again to close it. Expand all and Collapse all sit beside the Questions heading. A question you’ve just added opens by itself, ready to type in.
A question is saved once it has text. Clicking Add Question by itself saves nothing; the first thing you type does. Blank answer options aren’t saved either, so an option you left empty is gone the next time you open the quiz.