Moodle Quiz offers a range of question types that can be utilised as isolated questions or embedded within question banks.

In a quiz assignment, press the Questions tab and expand the Add button. Select a new question to access a menu of a list of question types available for selection with brief descriptions attached.

Quiz tab selected with the Add button expanded and a new question highlighted

Below is the range of question types permitted in Quiz. Check the question type you wish to add and select the Add button.
Multiple choice Question type selected with add button highlighted

Subsequent question types with add button highlighted


Question Types Explained

  1. Multiple choice: Presents a list of possible answers, allowing students to select one or more correct options. This question type can be configured to have either a single correct answer or multiple correct answers. They are simple to create and provide an accessible and efficient method of assessing students’ knowledge across topics.
  2. True/False: These are binary choice questions where students determine whether a statement is true or false. They are also efficient for quickly assessing students’ knowledge across various topics.
  3. Matching: This requires students to pair items from two lists, such as dates and events or terms and definitions. Students match each item from one list to the corresponding item in another list. This can assess students’ knowledge of relationships between concepts.
  4. Short answer: Requires students to provide brief responses in the format of single words or short phrases. This can be configured to be case sensitive and to allow a list of multiple possible answers. It can give insight into students’ brief understanding of concepts or their ability to recall specific information.
  5. Numerical: Requires students to input a numerical answer in the form of a whole number, fraction, or decimal. A range of correct answers can also be provided to allow for variation in calculations.
  6. Essay: This question type requires students to provide detailed responses to a question or essay prompt. These are manually graded and can assess students’ understanding of a topic, critical thinking, and ability to support arguments.
  7. Calculated: Calculated questions offer a way to create individual numerical questions by using wildcards that are substituted with individual values when the quiz is taken.
  8. Calculated multichoice: Similar to calculated questions, but students select the correct answer from a list of multiple-choice options. The values and answer options can change based on the formula used.
  9. Calculated simple: A simpler version of calculated questions that also uses wildcards and formulas to create numerical questions with different values for each student.
  10. Drag and drop into text: Missing words must be dragged and dropped into the correct spaces in a text paragraph. Items may be grouped and used more than once.
  11. Drag and drop markers: Students drop markers onto a selected area on a background image. Unlike the drag and drop onto image question type, there are no predefined areas on the underlying image that are visible to the student.
  12. Drag and drop onto image: Students drag images, text, or both to predefined boxes on a background image. These may be grouped.
  13. Embedded answers (cloze): Cloze questions require students to fill in the blanks in sentences. Short answers, multiple choice, or numerical answers can be embedded within a passage.
  14. Ordering: Requires students to place items into the correct order. This can be used to assess sequences, processes, timelines, or ranked information.
  15. Random short-answer matching: This is a combination of short-answer and matching question types. A matching question is generated by randomly selecting the added short-answer questions from a specific category. A different set of questions can be provided for each student, which can target a broad range of categories.
  16. Select missing words: Students select a missing word or phrase from a dropdown menu, where items may be used more than once and grouped.

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  17. Description: Can be embedded in a quiz to show media or text without requiring an answer. This can allow students to watch a video or read text and then answer quiz question types based on it.