Create an online quiz

Create online quizzes for your students to complete in the Student portal.

After you create a quiz, you can create an assignment and attach the quiz. The quiz appears in the Student portal between the Date assigned and Date due.

Aspen scores the quizzes based on the point values you define for each question.

To create online quizzes:

  1. Log on to the Staff view.
  2. Do one of the following:
    3. From the Gradebook tab: From the Planner tab:
    1. Click the Assignments side-tab and do one of the following:
    		  
    1. On the Options menu, select Add Assignment .
    1. Select either the Events or Lessons view, and then click My Resources.
    2. Click in the folder you want to save the quiz.
    3. At the bottom of My Resources, click Add, and select Online Quiz.
    1. In the Resources Provided by Teacher section, click Create Online Quiz.
    1. Select the Events view, and then click the date you want to give the quiz.
    2. Click Add Assignment. The New Assignment page appears.
    3. In the Resources Provided by the Teacher field, click Create Online Quiz.

  • Note: If you create your quiz from My Resources, the file is saved in My Resources for you to use again. If you create a quiz from an assignment, it is saved in the Uploads folder in My Resources.

    A pop-up appears.

  1. Use this table to complete the fields:

  2. Field

    Description

    Title

    Type a title for the quiz.

    Number of questions per page

    Type the number of questions you want to appear on each page of the quiz. (Students click Next to move from page to page.)

    Present questions in random order

    Select this checkbox to have questions appear in random order on the quiz.

    Students can check their answers

    Select this checkbox if you want to let students go back to a question they previously answered. Otherwise, after a student clicks Next to move to the next question, they cannot return to a question and check their answer.

    Introduction

    Type an introduction to the quiz. Students read the introduction when they open the quiz. Because it is a text editor field, you can include web links, images, etc.

  1. Click the Questions sub-tab to define the questions for the quiz.

  1. If you have created questions in your Question Bank, click Browse Item Bank. Select the questions you want to add to the quiz.
  2. To add new questions to the quiz, click Create Question. Define the question information.
    Note: Any questions you create for this quiz appear in your Question Bank. For each question, you can select Add to shared question bank. Then the question is available to all teachers who browse the school and district Question Bank.
  1. After you create and add all questions to the quiz, click Save. This quiz is now saved in My Resources.