Quiz Generator: Managing Rules for Tag Rule-Based Quizzes

One you set up the quiz to utilize tag rules to determine what questions should be displayed to a student, you next need to set up the rules themselves. The rules determine what questions are included and how many questions are included from each rule.

Rules match against one or more question tags. For example, you may have a question tags for "lecture," "reading," "multipleChoice," and "essay." You could then create the following rules:

• Include 5 questions that match both the "lecture" and "multipleChoice" tags.
• Include 5 questions that match both the "reading" and "multipleChoice" tags.
• Include 2 questions that match only the "essay" tag.

Each student's quiz would then include a total of 12 questions. The questions for each quiz would be different, but all quizzes would include questions based on the rules listed above. Questions selected for inclusion are only pulled from those in the pool of questions available for the quiz, not from all questions which happen to belong to a course.

As you create rules, you can test the rules to see exactly the kind of randomized results students will receive when they take the quiz.

Important: You must have tags on your questions in order for tag rule-based quizzes to work. If you do not have tags on your questions, the rules engine cannot select any questions for inclusion in the quiz.

How to Manage Rules for a Tag Rule-Based Quiz

Once you have set up the quiz to utilize tag rules, do the following:

1. Click Quiz Generator under Activities and Assignments on the main Faculty Tools page.
2. Click the title of the quiz on the main Quiz Generator page.
3. Click Question Manager in the main navigation bar at the top of the page.
4. Click Edit Question Tag Selection Rules on the left.
5. Click Create a New Rule.
6. Search the tags in the Select Tag(s) search bar. Select a tag. You can select more than one tag per rule.

7. The number of questions that match the tag(s) will display.
8. Enter the Number of questions to include in quiz that match this rule.
9. Click Add Rule.
10. The rule will display at the bottom of the page.

Existing Rules

If you want to edit a specific rule, click Edit next to the appropriate rule. You can delete a rule at any time by clicking Delete next to the appropriate rule. As you add, edit, or delete rules, the total number of questions in the quiz will update in real time.

Note: You can have extra credit tag rules in tag rule quizzes. All questions that match the rule must be extra credit questions.

How to Test the Rules for a Tag Rule-Based Quiz

Once you have created rules for your tag rule-based quiz, do the following:

1. Navigate to the Edit Question Tag Selection Rules page. (See above)
2. Scroll down the page to the Test Existing Rules section.
3. Click Test Rules.

Questions selected by the rules engine will display. You can see the tags that were matched for each question that was selected.

Note: Questions in this Test Rules view are grouped by rule to make it easier for you to see which rule caused which question to get selected. When students take the quiz, questions will be displayed in a completely random order.