How to Add a Quiz in MemberPress Courses

Getting started

Once you've installed and activated the MemberPress Courses add-on, you'll be able to create quizzes in any of your existing or new courses. To learn how to install Courses, check out Getting Started with MemberPress Courses.

Quizzes settings

You'll find all the settings for Quizzes under the Courses Settings tab. Go to your WordPress dashboard > MemberPress > Courses. Click on the course where you'd like the quiz to be, and click Settings. You'll see the new Quizzes options there:

Now let's see what each of these settings does.

Lesson/Quiz Title

This option controls whether the Lesson and Quiz titles are to be displayed. Titles will be enabled by default. On the other hand, you can hide these titles on all your lessons and quizzes by disabling this option.

Require Previous Lesson/Quiz 

Enable this option if you want to require students to complete a previous lesson/quiz before they can gain access to the next lesson/quiz. 

Note: The first lesson of a section will require completion of the last lesson/quiz of the previous section.

Selecting this option will allow students to see whether an answer is correct or incorrect. Disable this option if you don't want students to know which questions they answered correctly.

Select this option if you want to show students the correct answers after they complete the quiz.

Creating your first quiz

Creating a quiz in an existing lesson is easy! To get starred, open your course, then select the  Curriculum tab > Add Quiz. Then give your quiz a name. 

As you build and customize your quiz, you'll use several types of pre-built blocks within the Quizzes editor. To find these blocks, click on the + sign.

Select a block, and that quiz box will appear in the Quizzes editor. From there, you can edit and customize.

Now we'll go over the block types and how you can use them to create your quiz.

Multiple Choice Block

Here, you can write a question, add multiple answer choices, and indicate a single correct answer.

On the right, you'll see where you can label the question as "required" and add feedback your students will see if they choose an incorrect answer.

Multiple Answer Question Block

This block allows you to write a question, add multiple answers, and mark multiple correct answers.

True/False Question Block

This block is as straightforward as it gets. Write a phrase, then indicate whether "true" or "false" is the correct response.

Short Answer Block

Using the short answer block, you write a question or prompt, and your student is given a field where they can provide a short written answer.

Essay Block

With this block, you write a question or prompt and indicate the minimum/maximum number of characters required. As with the short answer block, your student is shown a field where they can type a response. The student sees an alert if the response is not within the indicated number or characters.

Fill in the Blanks Block

With the Fill in the Blanks block, you can add questions in the form of text with blanks. Your students will need to fill in the blanks by typing in the correct answers.

To replace the words in your text with the blanks, simply wrap the word in square brackets (e.g. [red]). In case of multiple correct answers, add them in the same square brackets, separated by commas (e.g. [red, scarlet, ruby]).

The block comes with additional settings:

• Required: toggling on this option will make this question required, preventing students from progressing unless answered;
• Points: students will be awarded points for each correct answer (each blank correctly filled in). Here, you can set how many points should be awarded for each correct answer in this block;
• Feedback for wrong answers: you can provide an explanation of the correct answer here. This text will be visible to your students if the “Show Answer” option is enabled in the Course settings.

Sort the Values Block

The Sort the Values block adds questions in the form of scrambled items your students need to order properly.

You can add an unlimited number of items to a question, all sorted in the correct order. To add additional items, click Add value at the bottom of the list.

Items will be automatically scrambled for your students. The question will be considered answered only if the student sorts out all items correctly.

The block comes with additional settings:

• Required: toggling on this option will make this question required, preventing students from progressing unless answered;
• Points: students will be awarded the number of points specified in this field for the question correctly;
• Feedback for wrong answers: you can provide an explanation of the correct answer here. This text will be visible to your students if the “Show Answer” option is enabled in the Course settings.

Match Matrix Block

The Match Matrix block is used to add questions where students need to match the pairs.

You can add an unlimited number of pairs to a question (matches). To add additional matches, click Add match at the bottom of the list.

Items in the right column will be automatically scrambled for your students. The question will be considered answered only if the student matches all the pairs correctly.

The block comes with additional settings:

• Required: toggling on this option will make this question required, preventing students from progressing unless answered;
• Points: students will be awarded the number of points specified in this field for the question correctly;
• Feedback for wrong answers: you can provide an explanation of the correct answer here. This text will be visible to your students if the “Show Answer” option is enabled in the Course settings.

Likert Scale Block

The Likert Scale block adds a Likert scale type of question to your quizzes. Likert scale questions give students a range of options. The range of options could be expressing a student’s attitude toward a statement as a level of agreement or probability. For example, the range could be between “Disagree” and “Agree”, or starting from “Very unlikely” up to “Extremely likely”.

By default, the block will have five scale options, but you can add as many options as needed. To add additional options, click Add option at the bottom of the list.

Students can select any option. Each option will award a different amount of points to a student. The first option awards the base number of points set under the Points option in the block settings. The points for the following options will be calculated in the following way:

Order number of the option X Base points = The total amount of points awarded

For example, let’s say the base points are set to 1, and the block uses the 5-option Likert scale. Here, the students will be awarded points as follows:

• Choosing the 1st option = 1 point;
• Choosing the 2nd option = 2 points (2 x 1 points);
• Choosing the 3rd option = 3 points (3 x 1 points);
• Choosing the 4th option = 4 points (4 x 1 points);

• Choosing the 5th option = 5 points (5 x 1 points).

  
  

In the block settings, you can also find the Required option. Toggling on this option will make this question required, preventing students from progressing unless answered.

Quiz Completion Rules

In the Quizzes editor, you can set rules for quiz completion. If you set a question as "required" and the student doesn't answer that question, the student will be shown a message informing them that they must answer that question to submit the quiz.

If a student submits a quiz, they won't be able to access and edit their answers. And you won't be able to edit the quiz. If you try to edit the quiz, you'll see a popup box.

If you'd like to give the student an opportunity to retake the quiz, you'll need to click Delete button in the popup to remove the student's attempts. You can click the already has attempts link if you'd like to view the student's attempts.

You can also view a student's attempts directly from your quiz. Just hover over the quiz, and check the View Attempts link. Once there, you can also preview and edit your quiz.

Note: Quizzes are fully customizable. Text and images can be added to create consistency with your theme and brand. Reach out to one of our trusted partners if you'd like help with customizing your MemberPress site in any way!