SOL tools
Activities
Setting up a Quiz in SOL
To set up a quiz in SOL, editing would need to be turned on
Click the Cog on the top right hand side
Click Add an activity or resource
From the ‘Add an activity or resource’ menu click on Quiz and the click Add
Insert a Name for your Quiz
Adding a Description is optional
There
are other settings that can be changed including Timing, if the quiz needs to be time constraints. Click Enable to set the Opening and closing
times for the Quiz.
Other settings for the Quiz can be changed are identified below. Changes to them are optional dependant on purpose of your quiz. Once satisfied with all the changes, click Save and display
Click on the Cog on the right-hand side to load the menu
From the menu click on Question Bank
Click on Create a new question …
There are lots of different questions to choose from, for example ‘Multiple choice, True/False, Short answer and ‘Drag and drop into text’ etc.
The guide will show you how to set up different types of questions;
Multiple Choice
Click on Multiple choice from the list of questions and then click Add
Enter Question name and Question text
Set Default mark and General feedback (this is optional)
Other
settings that can be changed amended are;
The Choices are the different answers you can enter
The Grade will need to be set 100% if the answer is correct and at None if the answer is incorrect.
Enter Feedback that you would want to leave for the learner for the answer e.g. Correct or Incorrect
For
this type of question, you would need to enter a minimum of 2 Choices
Once Choices, Grades and Feedback have been entered and selected Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page
The
question will then appear in your question bank.
True/False
Follow the process above for creating a new question and select True/False. Enter Question name and Question Text
Select the Correct Answer
Enter feedback for True and False responses
Click Save Changes when all changes have been made
Drag and drop into text
Follow the steps above to create a new question and select Drag and drop into text
Enter Question name and Question text. The answers will need to be replaced by numbers in square brackets e.g. [[1]], [[2]],[[3]] etc
Enter the correct
answers that correspond with the numbers in square brackets
Once all the changes have been made Click Save Changes
Once all the questions have been created, they can be copied to the Quiz. Navigate to the Quiz
Click on Edit Quiz
Click Add on the right hand side and then click on from question bank
Select the Questions from the Question bank pop-up window
Once all the Questions have been selected Click Add selected questions to the quiz
All the question will be added to the Quiz
If marks need to amended for questions – Click on the Pencil
Navigate to the Quiz and click on Attempt quiz now
The quiz is ready
