Create Quiz guide

To maximise performance during a Quiz, set a timed Quiz over a four to six hour fixed assessment window on Moodle so that students are accessing the Quiz activity at different times. See the Good Practice Principles for Learning, Teaching and Assessment 2023-25 for further advice on the set up of examinations of a qualitative nature.

If an assessment window is not an option, below are some tips to minimise Moodle performance issues where all students are expected to take the Quiz at the same time.  

General recommendations

1. Do not make any changes to the Quiz activity or module in the hour before the exam begins. 
2. Provide a direct link to the Quiz activity on a Teams site. By doing this, large groups of students will not be waiting for the My Moodle page and then the module page to load at the same time.
3. Where possible avoid starting a timed Quiz activity on the hour during term time as thousands of students may be logging into their Moodle modules to update the Attendance activity.  

200 or more students taking a Quiz concurrently

If you have 200 students or more taking a Quiz at the same time, we recommend you implement recommendations 1-3 above and consider:

• Staggering the start time of the Quiz, so separate groups of students start at different times e.g., 10:10, 10:15, 10:20. You can achieve this using groups functionality with the Quiz override feature.

1. Split the students into at least two separate groups.
2. Request that two new modules are created using the Create non-SITS module request form on IT Self Service Portal. 
3.  Import the Quiz and the questions into the two modules.
4. Enrol relevant students into each module.
5. Provide a direct link to the Quiz activity for each group on a Teams site. By doing this, large groups of students will not be waiting for the My Moodle page and then the module page to load at the same time.