How to create quiz questions without an answer box

How to create quiz questions without an answer box

There may be times where your students write their answers on a physical paper, and you just need the Quiz activity to show questions without needing an answer box for the students to type in.

 Instructions

  1. Create a quiz like you normally would. In case you are unfamiliar with the process, you may click here to view the how-to article.

  2. Clicking on the gear icon in your Quiz activity, go to ‘Edit Quiz’ to create your question:

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  1. Next, under ‘Add’, click on ‘a new question’:

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  1. When prompted on the question type to add, scroll all the way down and look for ‘Description’:

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  1. Finally, fill in the fields as you would when creating other questions.

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Once successfully created, you can preview it, you will see something like this:

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You will notice that it cannot be assigned marks as well unlike a typical question. As seen here, the mark box is not present for it in comparison to a typical question:

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