Deciding the most appropriate quiz format for your learners is an important part of designing your courses.
If you want to throw your users a pitch straight down the middle so that each user has the same quizzing experience, use static quizzes to provide answer types including true/false, multiple-choice, or short answer.
On the flip side, if you want to throw your users a curveball and ensure that each quiz a user takes is different, go with dynamic quizzes that utilize question banks to randomize the questions that are presented to learners.
Step 1
Click Content and select Quizzes (note: if you're selecting Dynamic Quizzes, click here first to create a Question Bank)
Step 2
Click Create Quiz, which will pull up the two choices we offer:
Now, add a name for your quiz.
Step 3
If you chose a Static Quiz... you'll see choices of Multiple Choice or Short Answer:
You can add personalizations into the questions like the first name or employee ID of the learner, by clicking +Personalization to the right.
By clicking Settings at the left, you can re-name, clone, or delete the quiz completely. Note: deleting a quiz also deletes all analytics as well, permanently.
If you chose a Dynamic Quiz... you'll be prompted to choose the information you'd like to include for the quiz.
Step 4
Review your selections and click Save + Close. You're now ready to add quizzes from the Courses tab in Content.
Step 5
When you add a Quiz Activity to your course, you will now see your Static and Dynamic Quizzes available in the dropdown. Choose the quiz you would like to use:
If you selected Dynamic Quiz, you must choose whether the questions should be completely randomized or, or should be randomized but still presented grouped in their categories:
