Create a graded quiz lesson inside a course — add questions, choose question types, set passing score, attempts, time limit, and shuffle behavior, then save.

Quiz Builder

The Quiz Builder is the editor you use when you add a Quiz lesson to a course section. It walks you through a five-step wizard — Quiz Info, Import Template, Questions, Settings, and Review — and saves the quiz as a piece of course content attached to the section you launched it from. This is the in-lesson quiz, distinct from the standalone Assessments module (see Related).

The wizard at a glance

The builder shows a progress bar with five steps at the top: Quiz Info, Import Template, Questions, Settings, and Review. Move between them with the Previous and Next buttons at the bottom, or jump straight to the last step and press Save Quiz. The header keeps Preview, Save Quiz, and (once you have edits) a Discard button visible on every step, so you never have to reach the end of the wizard to save. Pressing Cmd/Ctrl + S saves whenever the quiz is valid.

The breadcrumb at the top left shows the course name, the section name, and "Quiz" so you always know which section the quiz will attach to. The title reads Create Quiz for a new quiz and Edit Quiz when you reopen an existing one.

Step 1 — Quiz Info

The first step captures the basics and the three settings most instructors care about.

Field	Notes
Quiz Title	Required. Up to 200 characters, with a live character count.
Description	Optional. Up to 2000 characters. Describe what the quiz covers.
Passing Score (%)	0–100. Defaults to 70.
Time Limit (minutes)	0–180. Defaults to 60. Leave empty for No limit.
Max Attempts	1–10, whole numbers only. Defaults to 3.

A quiz cannot be saved without a title, so fill this in first.

Step 2 — Import Template

This step lets you start from a pre-built quiz template instead of a blank slate. Pick a template to preview or apply its theme, or click through to the Marketplace to browse more. Choosing the default clears any applied theme. Selecting a template also determines which question types are available in the next step — the builder only offers the question types the chosen template supports.

You can reach this step at any time from the More Actions menu in the header via Import template. The same menu holds an AI Generate option, which opens a panel that can draft a quiz description, generate whole questions, or fill in the details of a single question.

Step 3 — Questions

This is where you build the quiz. Add a question, pick its type, and fill in the answer data. Each question can be edited, duplicated, or deleted from the list.

Adding and editing a question

Click Add Question and choose a type.
Enter the Question Text (required).
Set the Question Type, Points (1–100), and Difficulty (Easy, Medium, or Hard).
Optionally set a Section/Category (defaults to General) to group questions by topic.
Fill in the answer data for the type (see below).
Optionally expand Advanced Settings for an Explanation (shown after submission), a Hint, and a per-question Time Limit (seconds).
Click OK to save the question into the list.

The OK button stays disabled until the question is valid, and a warning banner explains what is missing (for example, Please select the correct answer(s) or All options must have text).

Question types

The builder supports six question types. The exact set you can pick from depends on the template selected in Step 2.

Type	How answers work
Single Choice	2–6 options; pick exactly one correct option with a radio button. Defaults to four blank options.
Multiple Choice	2–6 options; mark one or more correct options with checkboxes.
True/False	Two fixed options, True and False; choose which is correct.
Fill in the Blank	Define one or more blanks, each with a list of accepted answers, plus a case-sensitivity toggle.
Matching	Left-side items paired to right-side match options; every left item must map to a correct match.
Ordering	Two or more items whose sequence is the correct order.

Choice questions require every option to have text and at least one correct answer selected. Matching questions need at least two items on each side and a correct match for every left-side item. Ordering questions need at least two non-empty items. Any of these left incomplete blocks both the question and the whole quiz from saving.

For choice questions you can Add Option (up to six) and remove options (down to a minimum of two); removing an option automatically re-maps your correct-answer selections so they still point at the right choices.

Step 4 — Settings

The Settings step exposes the quiz-wide behavior, grouped into four sections.

Display Options

Setting	Effect
Shuffle questions	Randomizes question order for each attempt. Off by default.
Shuffle answer options	Randomizes option order for choice questions. Off by default.

Results Display

Setting	Effect
Show Correct Answers	When learners see correct answers: Immediately after submission, After all attempts used, After deadline passes, or Never.
Show score immediately after submission	Reveals the score as soon as the learner submits. On by default.
Allow learners to review their answers	Lets learners revisit their responses. On by default.

Submission Rules

Setting	Effect
Require all questions to be answered	Blocks submission until every question is answered. On by default.
Auto-submit when time limit is reached	Submits automatically when the clock runs out. On by default.

Submission Behavior

Setting	Effect
Submission Mode	End of Quiz (one submission at the end) or Per Question (a Check button after each answer with instant feedback and animations).
Questions Per Attempt	Number of random questions shown per attempt. Leave empty to show all questions.
Attempt Reset Hours	Hours a learner must wait before a new attempt (0–720). 0 means no wait time.

Per Question mode gives learners instant right/wrong feedback and animated responses after each answer — good for practice quizzes. Use End of Quiz for exam-style assessments where you do not want to hint at correctness mid-quiz.

Step 5 — Review and save

The final step summarizes the quiz: total points, passing score, time limit, the question sections you created, and a list of any outstanding validation errors. If anything is wrong — a missing title, no questions, an unanswered question, or a max-attempts value outside 1–10 — it is listed here and the Save Quiz button stays disabled.

When everything checks out, click Save Quiz (from the header, the Review step, or Cmd/Ctrl + S). A new quiz is created as a mandatory content item in its section and you are returned to the course curriculum; editing an existing quiz updates it in place and clears the unsaved-changes flag.

If you leave the builder with unsaved edits — via Back to Curriculum, the browser, or the Escape key — you are prompted to confirm before your changes are lost. Use Discard to revert to the last saved state without leaving.

In-lesson quiz vs. the Assessments module

The Quiz Builder produces a quiz that lives inside a course section as a lesson. It is graded, attempt-limited, and part of the learner's path through that course. If you instead need a standalone, reusable assessment — one that is not bolted to a single course lesson — use the separate Assessments module. See Assessments for that workflow.

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