How to Add a Matching Question to Your Quiz

For a matching question, the answer to each of a number of sub-questions must be selected from a list of possibilities.

Table of Contents:

1. Add a Matching Question

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Add a Matching Question

Step 1: After you have added a quiz activity to your course, navigate to that quiz and click on "Edit quiz."

Step 2: Click on "Add a new question" to start adding questions to your quiz.

Step 3: From the available options, select the "Matching" question type and click on "Add."

Step 4: Decide:

1) In which category to save your question in the course question bank,

(2) Give your question a name and

(3) Enter the question text.

Step 5: Decide:

(1) How many points your question will count and

(2) Optionally enter general feedback that will be shown to all learners after completing the question.

Step 6: Decide

(1) Whether or not the order of the possible answers should be randomly shuffled for each attempt and

(2) set your questions with a matching answer.  You must provide at least two questions and three answers (one wrong answer).

*Note: You can provide extra wrong answers by giving an answer with a blank question.

Step 7: Additionally, you can define combined feedback, set penalties for multiple tries and add tags.

Step 8: Once you're happy, click on "Save changes."