Adding Activities & Resources

In Moodle, activities are the ways students interact with a course. Quizzes, glossaries, forums, and assignments are all generally called ‘activities.’

Resources are items that you can use to augment training. They can be documents or presentations, or even an external web page such as a certain video from YouTube.

To add an activity or a resource:

Step 1 - Turn on editing mode by clicking the icon in the upper right.

When editing is enabled, there’s a + Add an activity or resource after each section of a course.

Step 2 - Click on the + Icon, and you’ll see a pop-up window with the list of all available options and their descriptions. There are 14 types of activities and 7 types of resources.

Step 3 - When you have chosen which type of activity or resource you’d like to use, you will be taken directly to the activity/resource’s editing page.

How to add a quiz

Step 1 - Choose a section where you’d like to add a quiz, click + Add an activity or resource, and choose Quiz in the pop-up window. After doing this, you get a quiz settings menu.

In our example, we’ve simply put “Unit 1 Quiz”, but you can be more specific

Step 2 - Fill in the name of the quiz. Then you can click Save and return to the the course since Name is the only field required for creating a shell for a quiz. However, feel free to explore other settings in this menu. For example, you can set time frames for assessment or limit the number of attempts allowed.

Step 3 - Fill this empty quiz shell with some questions. Click Edit quiz and, in a new window, click Add → + a new question.

In Moodle, there are 15 types of questions you can use, such as multiple-choice, matching, and drag and drop.

Step 4 - Choose the type you’d like to use and click Add.

Step 5 - In a new window, you’ll need to fill out the details of the question: its name, question text, answers, and feedback. The interface is quite self-explanatory, but in case you have trouble, there are detailed step-by-step instructions on how to create quizzes in Moodle.

Step 6 - Confirm your details and click Save changes. Again, you’ll find yourself in a quiz editing menu where you can repeat the same sequence of actions and add as many questions as you need.