Quiz Builder
The Tutor LMS Quiz Builder is a powerful tool designed to help you create interactive, engaging quizzes for your students. It offers 8 modern, versatile question types to assess students’ course material understanding effectively. It also offers several customization options to tailor each quiz perfectly to suit your needs.
Quiz Creation
To start creating quizzes, go to the Curriculum section, and you’ll find the +Quiz button there.
This will open the Quiz Builder window, where you’ll first need to enter the quiz title and description. Once that’s done, you can proceed to create your quizzes.
Tutor LMS lets you add 8 different types of questions. These are:
- True/False
- Multiple Choice
- Open Ended/Essay
- Fill in the Blanks
- Short Answer
- Matching
- Image Answering
- Ordering
To add quiz questions, click the large blue plus button next to the Questions section and select the type of question you wish to add to your course.
In the following section, we’ll explain these question types one by one.
1. True/False
The True/False question type allows you to create simple and direct questions where learners choose between two options: True or False. This question type is ideal for testing basic understanding or verifying factual knowledge.
To add a True/False type question, navigate to the quiz editor and select the True/False question type from the options. Then, add the question and a description to the Question field. However, the description is optional here. After entering the question, specify whether the statement is True or False.
Later, you’ll get the Answer Explanation section. Here, you can provide a concise yet informative explanation to help learners understand the correct answers and the reasoning behind them.
Students can access the explanation from the Quiz Details page only after they’ve attended the quiz. Here’s the frontend preview of the quiz explanation:
📝 Note: If you have Quiz Details disabled, then you won’t be able to see the Answer Explanation.
Customizing Question Settings
The True/False question type includes additional conditions that allow you to fine-tune the learner experience:
- Answer Required: Enable this question mandatory by using this toggle button.
- Randomize Choice: Toggle this option if you want the order of True and False to appear randomly for each learner.
- Point For This Question: Assign a specific point value to this question. The default is typically set to 1 point.
- Display Points: Choose whether or not to show the point value to the learners.
2. Multiple Choice
The Multiple Choice question type is a versatile and commonly used format in quizzes and assessments. This type allows you to present learners with a question and multiple answer options, from which they must choose the correct one. Multiple Choice questions can have either a single correct answer or multiple correct answers, depending on the configuration.
Begin by navigating to the quiz or question editor. Select the Multiple Choice question type from the list of available question formats.
In the Question field, enter your question clearly and concisely. Then, add answer options by clicking the + Add Option button. You can also include images with the answers. For optimal visibility, ensure the image resolution is 700×430 pixels.
Finally, indicate the correct answer by selecting the checkbox next to the appropriate option. Enable the Multiple Correct Answer toggle on the right side to add multiple correct answers. Then, you can choose multiple correct answers from the left side.
3. Open Ended/Essay
The Open-Ended/Essay question type is designed for in-depth, subjective responses where learners can provide detailed answers.
You can start by selecting the Open-Ended/Essay question type in the quiz editor. This question type allows learners to input free-form text responses. There, you have to input the question title and description.
However, you can also set a character limit for the essay. This option is available in the Quiz settings section.
4. Fill in the Blanks
The “Fill in the Blanks” question type in Tutor LMS lets instructors create quiz questions where learners complete sentences by filling in missing words or phrases.
To create this quiz, you have to select the Fill in the Blanks quiz type. There, you can add the title and description of the quiz. Up next, you have to add the question and its answers.
To indicate a blank space where the learner needs to input an answer, the instructor must use the variable {dash}. Below the title field, there is a Correct Answer(s) input box. This is where the correct answers for the blanks are specified.
If there is only one blank in the question, the correct answer is simply written as is. However, if there are multiple blanks, the answers must be listed in the same order as the blanks appear in the question. These answers are separated by a vertical bar (|).
Here’s a sample question: “Water is made up of {dash} and {dash}.” The correct answers are Hydrogen and Oxygen. So, you should enter the answers as “Hydrogen | Oxygen” to mark them correctly.
An optional Answer Explanation section allows instructors to provide detailed feedback or context after the quiz is submitted, enhancing the learning experience. This tool is intuitive and effective for testing knowledge and reinforcing learning.
Here’s a preview of this fill in the blanks quiz in the students frontend:
5. Short Answer
The Short Answer question type in Tutor LMS allows you to test your students’ knowledge with concise, text-based responses.
Like the general quizzes, you have to select the Short Answer question type from the list. There, you have to input the question title and description. However, you can also set a character limit for this question type. This option is available in the Quiz settings section.
6. Matching
The Matching Quiz type in Tutor LMS is designed to test students’ ability to pair related items from two separate lists. In a Matching quiz, you provide two sets of items—typically, one list of terms or questions and another list of corresponding answers or definitions. Students need to connect pairings between items in the two lists by dragging the options.
In the question field, enter the question title and description. Next, add the options by clicking the + Add Option button. In the option fields, input the question and its corresponding matched answer, which will serve as the correct pair for this option. Once everything is set, click the Save button at the top right corner.
Here’s how the Matching quiz will appear on the frontend:
You can also add images in the options by enabling the Image Matching option from the right sidebar.
7. Image Answering
The Image Answering quiz type in Tutor LMS allows you to create interactive questions where students select or identify answers associated with images. This type of question is ideal for visual-based assessments, such as identifying objects, locations, or matching visual content with text descriptions.
You can start by entering the question title in the Question field. Optionally, you can include a description to provide additional context or instructions for the learners.
After that, click on the Add Image button to upload an image for the question. For optimal visibility, ensure the image resolution is 700×430 pixels. Below the image field, use the Write option text box to add a description or label that corresponds to the image.
To include more answer options, click the + Add Option button. For each option, repeat the process of uploading an image and providing a label or description.
Once you’ve added all the necessary images and options, click the Ok button to confirm the options. Then, click the Save button at the top-right corner to finalize your question.
You can also provide an explanation for the correct answer in the Write answer explanation field. This helps learners understand the reasoning behind the correct response after the quiz.
8. Ordering
Set an ordering question where students have to reorder the given text, images, or both in the correct sequence to obtain marks.
