Multiple Choice Questions

Multiple choice: students select either one or multiple correct answers to a question.
  1. From your course Homepage, in Designer Options view (the default location and view when you log in as an instructor), Click on the link you created with the Quiz/Survey Tool. In this example, the link is titled "Quizzes".
    Select Quizzes from the Homepage
  2. Select "Question Bank" from the Quizzes/Surveys page.
    Select Question Bank
  3. You should see a page similar to the one below. Note the Category and Question Type selections that must be made before creating the new question.
    The Question Bank page
  4. After selecting the desired category for your question, select the type of question you wish to add from the drop-down box. For this example, select "Multiple Choice" then click on "Go".
    Select add a question
  5. Enter the question title and the content of the question. One suggestion is to use enough of the initial part of the actual question so that when you see just a list of the titles, you will be able to easily associate the title with the actual question.
    Add the question title and content
  6. In the Settings page, select the layout and number of correct responses for your question. Please note that "Randomized" answer order makes it impossible to recreate the answer order that a particular student experienced when they took the quiz. "All or nothing" scoring applies whenever "Multiple answers" per question are required for a completely correct response.
    Question settings
  7. Moving down on the page, type in the responses from which the student must choose. Indicate which of these responses is the correct answer. If there are more than one correct answers, type in the percent allocation of points between the answers. Note that if you want the student to receive feedback to their selection, type that feedback in the appropriate block for each answer.
    Type in the answers
  8. Or you may enter a "General Feedback" for the whole question. When you have entered all of the possible responses, click "Save".
    Click Save when done
  9. To enter additional questions into this category, return to Step #4.


  10. To view the specific instructions associated with creating the different question types, please click the appropriate link below. Note that a True / False question is a form of a Multiple Choice question. However, there are only two possible answers, either True or False.

    Multiple Choice
    Matching
    Calculation
    Short Answer
    Long Answer

  11. Return to Building Your Question Database.