Testing your knowledge right after learning something new has been shown to improve long-term retention. This is especially helpful if you want your customers to get lasting value from your courses.
Quizzes make this easy by letting customers check their understanding throughout your course, while also giving you a way to review their results and see how they’re doing.
In this article, we’ll walk through how to set up quizzes for your online courses.
Introduction
Quizzes can only be added to online courses and are a great way to test and track your customers’ understanding of your content.
They let you create multiple-choice questions, and you can decide whether each question has one correct answer or several:
One answer — Customers can select only one option.
One or more answers — Customers can select multiple correct options, and they must choose all correct answers to get it right.
You can add as many quizzes as you want throughout your course, so feel free to place them wherever you want to check your customers’ progress.
Setting up a quiz
Here's how to set up a quiz on Podia:
In the sidebar menu, click on Products.
From the Products page, click on Edit next to the online course you'd like to add quizzes to.
Click on "+ New Lesson" and select the Quiz option.
You'll be taken to the Quiz Editor, which is where you'll edit and create your quiz.
Start by giving your Quiz a Name and write a brief description.
Click on "+ New question" to add new questions to your quiz.
Give your question a title, then enter all of the answer options.
Next to each answer, choose whether it’s correct or incorrect by clicking the Right or Wrong icon. (You’ll need at least one correct answer to save the question.)
If you want to add more answer choices, just click + New answer to create another option.
Once you're done editing your question, click on Done to have it added to your quiz.
If the Done button is disabled, check if you have entered all of the necessary information, such as Title, at least one right answer, etc.
Repeat the process to add as many questions as you'd like.
Use the right-hand menu to edit additional information about your quiz, such as its visibility and choosing a custom icon.
Once you're done, click on Save at the top-right corner to add your quiz to your course.
What will quizzes look like to my customers?
Once customers reach a quiz lesson, they’ll be able to take the quiz and answer all of the questions you’ve prepared for them.
They can view all of the answers you've set up and mark the ones they believe are correct. After answering a question, they can view if they got the answer right or wrong.
When they're done answering all of the questions, they'll see their final results before moving on to the next lesson, as well as seeing the option to retake the quiz.
Note: Quizzes cannot be previewed, so only logged-in customers will be able to view and take quizzes.
To view your customers' quiz completion individually, you can do so by checking their course progress.
FAQs
Can I create questions with multiple correct answers?
Can I create questions with multiple correct answers?
Yes. When a question is created with multiple correct answers, your customers will need to select all the right answers in order to be marked correct.
In the case of wanting to have all your listed answers as correct, we recommend making one answer at the bottom of your answer list read “all of the above” and have that marked as the only correct option.
Can I create questions with no right answers?
Can I create questions with no right answers?
No. Quiz answers need to have at least one right answer.
In the case of wanting to have all your listed answers as wrong, we recommend making one answer at the bottom of your answer list read “none of the above” and have that marked as the only correct option.
Can I add images/videos/interactive content to quizzes on Podia?
Can I add images/videos/interactive content to quizzes on Podia?
No. For more advanced and interactive features we recommend Genially or something like Typeform for long-form answers.
You'll then be able to embed these not just in online courses but also anywhere on your site.
Still need help?
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