Quiz Settings
The Quiz Settings enable you to select display options, add materials, show/hide elements, autostart, display numbering, randomize questions and answers, and more.
How to Access Settings
Navigate to the LearnDash Quizzes page and hover under the quiz title to show the options. Click the Edit button.
NOTE
Quiz display & content settings are set on a quiz-by-quiz basis. They cannot be set globally.
Quiz Access Settings
The Access Settings associate the quiz with a course, allow you to determine when it’s available after course enrollment, if there is quiz prerequisite, and allow only registered users to take the Quiz. The settings below are typical for a course that provides a test and no other content:
There is an associated course, but no lesson. The quiz is released immediately upon course enrollment. There is no prerequisite. Only registered users can take the quiz. If there were a prerequisite, the Course Builder would have at least one other quiz in it, and the quizzes would be listed so that the prerequisite quiz comes before the final quiz.
Progression and Restriction Settings
The Progression and Restriction settings are where you indicate the required percentage for a passing score.
Leave the Quiz Certificate blank. For our purposes, we add the certificate to the Course Settings (rather than the Quiz Settings), so users can rely on their Course Progression meter that appears at the top of the course to track their progress and completion.
Enable Quiz Saving if it’s a long quiz in case users are pulled away from it and need to come back to it later.
Restrict retakes if you want to limit how many times they can retake the test. Leaving it off as in the example below allows unlimited retakes.
Check the box to require all questions to be completed. (In the next section you can opt to show only a certain number of questions from a larger question bank.
Add a time limit to require the test be completed within a certain amount of time once they start it.
Display and Content Options
Materials
There is an option to add materials such as links to pdf downloads, a References list, or other content.
Materials are displayed to your users in a separate tab, alongside the main quiz content.
Autostart
Enable the Autostart setting to automatically load the quiz as soon as the user accesses the quiz page.
By default, this setting is disabled, and a “Start Quiz” button must be clicked to start the quiz.
Question Display
The question display gives you two main options for how you want to set up your quiz questions:
1. One question at a time
- Only one question is shown at a time
- A “Next” button is displayed at the bottom of each question to proceed to the next one
If you choose this option, you have two ways to display results:
- At the end only
All questions are graded together, at the end of the quiz. Choosing this option will allow you to optionally display a “Back” button that allows the user to review the previous question. - After each submitted answer
Each question is graded one at a time, immediately after it is submitted. The “Back” button is not an option here.
2. All questions at once
- All questions are displayed on the page
- You can choose the number of questions to be displayed before pagination appears at the bottom (enter
0to show all questions) - No navigation buttons will be shown
- A “Quiz Summary” button is shown at the end, followed by a “Finish Quiz” button to submit your answers
Question Overview Table
The question overview table displays a table at the top of your quiz.
- It contains a number for each quiz question that your quiz contains
- Users can click each number to take them to that particular quiz question
- The question that is currently being viewed is marked in blue
- Users can click a “Review question” button to mark a question as “for review”
- Answered questions are marked in green
Custom Question Ordering
- A “Quiz summary” button allows user to see how many questions they have answered, and click “Finish quiz” to submit their answers
- The “Skip Question” button is only enabled if the “Display results after each submitted answer” is selected on the Question Display options
- Even with the “Skip Question” disabled, depending on the other settings you set above, the users may still freely go back and forth between questions via the Question Overview Table.
By default, your quiz questions are displayed in the order they are set in the quiz builder. If you’d like to change that order, you have a few options:
- Sort by Category: This will group all questions within the same category together.
- Randomize Order: Just as it implies, this displays quiz questions in a random order. You can apply the randomization to all questions, or only a subset of questions.
Quiz Title: A second quiz title will be displayed on the Quiz Post. This option is recommended if displaying Quizzes via Shortcode.
Additional Question Options
There are a handful of other quiz elements that you can choose to show or hide from your users. Enable the toggle to display the following elements:
- Point Value: Displays the points in the top-right corner of each question.
10 point(s) - Question Category: Displayed just above the question. Only shown for questions that have been assigned a category.
Category: Math - Question Position: Displayed at the very top of each question, indicating the current question out of the total questions.
Question 1 of 10 - Question Numbering: Displayed before each question.
10. Question - Number Answers: Displays a number before each answer (only applies to Single Choice and Multiple Choice question types).
- Randomize Answers: Applies to Single Choice, Multiple Choice, Sorting & Matrix Sorting question types.
Administrative and Data Handling Settings
The most important setting here is the Quiz Statistics, which must be selected to track the quiz progress and results. Optionally, you can select the Front-end Profile Display for users to also see their scores on their My Courses page.
For more options and examples of the Quiz Settings, refer to the LearnDash resource: Quiz Display & Content Settings.