Quiz and Question Bank

Academy LMS 4.0 splits quiz work in two. The quiz builder walks you through one quiz in three steps, and the question bank keeps every question you have ever written in one library so you can drop the same question into as many quizzes as you like.

Note: Quizzes is a free addon. Four of the seven question types (Dropdown, Short Answer, Image Answer, Fill In The Blanks) need Academy LMS Pro.

Before you start

Step 1: Turn on the Quizzes addon

Go to Academy LMS → Add-ons and search for Quizzes. It sits under Course Features. Switch the toggle on.

This adds a Quizzes menu with three screens: All Quizzes, Questions and Quiz Attempts.

Step 2: Open the quiz list

Go to Academy LMS → Quizzes → All Quizzes. Every quiz is listed with its Questions Count, Created date, Author and Status, and you can filter by All, Publish, Draft, Pending or Trash.

Click Add New Quiz to start one.

Part 1: Build the quiz

The editor has three steps across the top: Quiz Info, Questions and Settings. A tick appears on each step as you complete it, and you can jump back to any step at any time.

Step 3: Name the quiz

On Quiz Info, fill in Quiz Title (1). Description (Optional) takes formatted text if you want to explain the rules before students begin.

Click Save & Continue (2) to move to the questions.

Step 4: Add questions

The Questions step lists what the quiz already holds, with a drag handle on each row so you can reorder them. Two buttons sit at the bottom:

Step 5: Write a question

Add Question opens a form with everything about one question on a single screen:

On the right, Question settings holds Answer required, Randomize Answer, Display points, and Negative Marking, which deducts points for a wrong answer. Leave negative marking at 0 to switch it off.

The seven question types

Without Pro the four Pro types still appear in the list, marked [PRO] and greyed out.

Step 6: Reuse a question from the bank

This is the point of the bank. Click Reuse Content and a panel opens listing every question you have written, each tagged with its type and level. Search by text, narrow by level, tick the ones you want, and they join this quiz.

The question is not copied. It is the same question, so the bank’s Used in count goes up and editing it later updates every quiz that uses it.

Step 7: Set the quiz rules

Quiz Feedback Mode decides what happens during the attempt:

Part 2: The question bank

Step 8: Browse every question

Academy LMS → Quizzes → Questions is the library. Each row shows the question, its Type, its Level, the Points it is worth, and Used in, which counts the quizzes holding it. A question that belongs to no quiz shows Unused.

Step 9: Find, import and export

Above the table you can search question text, filter by All Types and All Levels, and sort by newest, oldest or title.

Export writes the questions out, and Import reads them back, which is how you move a bank between sites or keep a backup before a big edit.

Part 3: Around the quiz

Step 10: Lock the browser during an attempt

Browser Lock is a single site-wide switch, not a per quiz one. The quiz Settings step says so and links to it.

Go to Academy LMS → Settings → Pages → Learn Page and find Quiz Proctoring. Turning Browser Lock on asks for fullscreen when an attempt starts. If the student leaves fullscreen they choose to return and continue or to finish the quiz. The attempt is never failed or submitted for them.

Step 11: Review attempts

Academy LMS → Quizzes → Quiz Attempts lists every attempt with its Course, Questions, Answers, Marks and Result. Open one to see the attempt in detail, and use Export to take the results away as a file.

Step 12: Put the quiz in a course

A quiz only reaches students once it is in a course. Open the course, go to the Builder, and expand the curriculum section you want. Use Add Content on that section and choose Quiz, then either pick your quiz from the list or create one without leaving the course.

Troubleshooting