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Quizzes - Adding Existing Questions to a Quiz

This tutorial walks you through adding existing questions (from a category) to a quiz.

Step 1 Click on the quiz you wish to add questions to and go to the Questions tab.

Step 2

Select Add. Choose from the question bank to choose a specific question from an existing category.

If you prefer to choose a random question (or multiple random questions), skip to Step 6 below.

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Step 3 Choose from the question bank to choose a specific question from an existing category.

If you prefer to choose a random question (or multiple random questions), skip to Step 6 below.

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Step 4 Next to Select a category, choose the category from which you wish to select questions for your quiz. The page will reload to display questions only from that specific category.

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Step 5 Check the box next to each question you wish to add.

(Alternately, you can check the box next to the T at the top of the list to select all questions in the category.)

Next, click Add selected questions to the Quiz.

Your questions are now added and you can ignore the following steps of this tutorial.

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Step 6
 If you prefer to add random questions from a category (or more than one category) to your quiz, click  + a random question.

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Step 7 Use the drop-down menu to select the appropriate category.

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Step 8 Under Number of random questions, use the drop-down menu to choose the number of questions you want to add that will be randomly chosen from the category, then click Add random question.

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Step 9 Your questions are now added, with the random questions designated by the die icon and "Random" and the category the question comes from.

Image sample of questions added


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