NOTE: We DO NOT support custom questions. We suggest you try the question before administering it to students.

You have the ability to create your own questions. Any custom questions will appear in the My Custom Questions question bank list and can be included on an Auto-graded assignment.

Note: Custom questions are limited to True/False, Multiple Choice, and Essay.  Essay questions will need to be manually graded.

Create a Custom Question

  1. From within the course, click Course Settings from the menu panel and select My Custom Questions.
     
  2. Click the Create a new question... button. Leave all other settings/options at the defaults.
     
  3. Select the needed question type: True/False, Multiple Choice, or Essay and click Add.
Follow instruction below for more detail by question type.

True/False

General Section

  1. Input Question name (how it appears in the Question Bank) and Question display name (how it appears to students) in the required fields.
     
  2. Type your Question text in the identified field.
  3. Optional: Under General Feedback, enter any feedback you would like to provide the student when reviewing.
  4. Set the correct answer to True or False.
    Optional: Add any desired feedback in the associated field.

Save Changes (bottom/center of page).


Multiple Choice

General Section

  1. Input Question name (how it appears in the Question Bank) and Question display name (how it appears to students) in the required fields.
     
  2. Type your Question text in the identified field.
  3. Optional: Under General Feedback, enter any feedback you would like to provide the student when reviewing.
  4. Select if you want one correct answer, or allow for multiple answers (multiple select).
    • Leave Shuffle the choices? checked to allow answer options to move around (suggested).

Answers Section

Enter one response option in each Choice # field (enter at least two choices; any choice left blank will not appear).
  1. Type an answer option in Choice 1 field.
  2. If answer is the correct one, set Grade to appropriate percentage, or leave as None if incorrect.
    Example: if allowing for one correct answer, set to 100%. If allowing for two correct answers (multiple selection), set each correct answer to 50%.
  3. Optional: If you would like to include feedback for a response, type it in the Feedback field.
Repeat to include all answer options.

 

Save Changes (bottom/center of page).


Essay

Question will need to be manually graded. See Overrride Grade - Individual Student/Question for instruction.

General Section

  1. Input Question name (how it appears in the Question Bank) and Question display name (how it appears to students) in the required fields.
     
  2. Type your Question text in the identified field.
  3. Optional: Under General Feedback, enter any feedback you would like to provide the student when reviewing.

Response Options Section

  1. Set the preferred size of the input box (space students have to enter their written response).
     
  2. Optional: Allow attachments.
    • Set Allow attachments to the number allowed.
    • Designate if attachments are required (how many) or optional.
    • Click Choose to select file types to be accepted.
  3. Optional: Grader Information.
    If someone will be helping you grade you can add information for them in the Grader Information field.

 

Save Changes (bottom/center of page).