1 What a hybrid quiz is
A hybrid quiz is a new task type in which one quiz can contain a mix of four different question types. A single attempt therefore combines machine-checked questions and tasks graded by hand.
- 📋 Quiz question – auto-graded (multiple choice, true/false, cloze, matching – also with images – and multiple-choice set).
- ✍️ Essay – a free writing task graded by the teacher.
- 🎥 Video answer – the student records a video or audio answer.
- 🎧 Listening/material – material as a link or as embedded audio, answered either in auto-graded or in text form (e.g. audio + multiple-choice set).
At quiz level you can switch on forced order (questions open in order, no going back) and set a time limit per question. The whole quiz is graded and published to the student at once, as a single whole – there is no revision round.
2 Where to find it
You create a hybrid quiz in the course editor from a topic's 📋 Quizzes card. The card's panel has two sections: ⚡ Automatic practice quizzes (practice quizzes) and 🧪 Graded quizzes (hybrid quizzes). You add a new quiz with the shared “+ Add quiz” button, which asks what kind of quiz you want to make.
When you press “+ Add quiz”, the app asks “What kind of quiz?”. Choose 🧪 Graded quizzes and the hybrid quiz creation form opens. (⚡ Automatic practice quizzes creates a practice quiz, see Practice quiz.)
Submissions are graded in the “Hybrid quizzes” section of the navigation (in the “+ Add tools” → Feedback & assessment menu; you can pin it to the navigation), see section 8.
3 Quiz basic details
When you choose “Graded quizzes”, the creation form opens. Start with the quiz's basic details at the top of the form.
- Quiz title – required; shown to students and in the grading list.
- Instructions to student – shown at the start of the quiz.
- Forced order – when it is on, the student only sees the active question and a “Next” button; they cannot go back to the previous one.
- Deadline and 🔒 Lock after deadline – prevents new attempts from being started after the deadline. The deadline is also shown in the deadline calendar.
4 Question types
Add questions with the “+ Add question” button, which opens a menu of the four types. You can mix types freely and reorder questions with the arrow buttons.
An auto-graded question. Choose the question type and enter the correct answer – the machine scores it.
A free writing task. Give the prompt, max points and, if you like, a material link. The teacher grades it by hand.
The student records an answer. Set the max duration and choose “audio only” if you like. The teacher grades it by hand.
Material as a link (video/file) or as embedded audio, for which you can limit the number of plays. The answer is auto-graded or in text form.
Example: an auto-graded quiz question
In an auto-graded question you choose the question type from a drop-down list. The form shows type-specific instructions on a blue background and adapts the fields to your choice.
The question types and the format of their correct answer:
- Multiple choice (one correct) – options one per line; copy the correct option exactly into the Correct answer field.
- Multiple choice (several correct) – list the correct ones separated by commas. Scoring is proportional, and wrong choices subtract points.
- True/false – write the statement in the question text and choose True/False.
- Cloze (fill in the blanks) – mark the blanks e.g. ___ (1); write the correct answers one per line in the same order. Letter case does not matter.
- Matching – add the pairs on their own rows with the “+ Add pair” button (at least 2). Either side of a pair can be text, an image or both. The student chooses the pair for each left-hand item from a drop-down list.
- Multiple-choice set (several questions on one page) new – a shared question text with sub-items below it, each with its own options, correct answers and points.
Matching with images new
Matching pairs are now written on their own rows (previously in the format left = right). Next to each side there is a “🖼 Image” button for attaching an image. An added image is shown as a thumbnail, and 🖼✕ removes it; 🗑 removes the whole pair.
When the right-hand sides have images, the student sees them as a gallery labelled with letters (A, B, C…) and chooses a letter from the drop-down list. Scoring is proportional (correct pairs / all pairs). When you save, the app checks that no pair is missing text or an image on either side and that texts on the same side differ from each other.
Multiple-choice set new
In a multiple-choice set, the student sees several multiple-choice questions on one page under the same material. Choose “Multiple-choice set (several questions on one page)” as the question type of the quiz question, write the shared material or instructions in the question text and add sub-items with the “+ Add sub-item” button.
- Options – one per line, at least two.
- Correct answer(s) – exactly as written in the options; if Several correct is ticked, list the correct ones separated by commas. A single-correct item may have only one correct answer.
- Points – each sub-item has its own points; the question's points field is locked and shows the sum of the sub-items.
In grading, the answer to a multiple-choice set is shown sub-item by sub-item with ✓/✗ marks, and pairs with images are shown as thumbnails.
5 Per-question settings
Each question has its own settings regardless of its type. Question rows can be expanded and collapsed (click the title), so even a long quiz stays manageable. The right edge of the row shows the points and any time limit.
- Points – the question's maximum points. The sum updates the “Total points” figure.
- ⏱ Time limit (s) – optional, separately for each question. When the time runs out, the answer is saved, the question is locked and the quiz moves automatically to the next one. Empty = no limit.
- Model solution – free text (for auto-graded questions the correct answer is enough).
- Solution visibility – “Only with evaluation” (default) or “Right after submission”.
- 📎 Material link (essay/video/listening) – URL and link label; the student gets a clear “Open material” button.
6 Import from bank
With the “📚 Import from bank” button you can pick ready-made auto-graded questions from the quiz task bank (the same bank that practice quizzes use; it is managed on the Task banks → 🧪 Quiz tasks tab). Browse the folders and add a task to the quiz with the “+ Add to quiz” button.
Quiz questions you create in the editor are saved automatically to the quiz task bank in a folder named after the quiz, so you can reuse them in other quizzes. The exceptions are cloze tasks and multiple-choice sets, which are not saved to the bank.
7 Saving and publishing
At the bottom of the form there are three buttons. You can save a draft and continue later, or publish the quiz to students.
- 💾 Save – saves as a draft. You can still edit the quiz.
- 📤 Save and publish – publishes to students. A published quiz can no longer be edited.
Reverting a published quiz to a draft
A published quiz is locked. If you want to edit it, press “🔓 Revert to draft” in the lock notice.
8 Grading submissions
Grading is done in the “Hybrid quizzes” section of the navigation (the “+ Add tools” → Feedback & assessment menu). First press “Sync submissions”, which fetches new submissions and runs the automatic scoring. The list is structured: course → quiz → submissions, ungraded ones first. With the Status menu you show ungraded (default), graded or all submissions; ↻ Refresh reloads the list.
Grading view
The submission opens in a view where the questions and answers are shown one below the other as separate cards. For auto-graded questions, the points given by the machine are already in the points field and can be overridden. You give points and feedback for essay and video answers by hand (a video answer opens from the ▶ button on its card). Expand all / Collapse all at the top open or close the cards, and ← Back to list returns to the submission list.
- Save draft – saves the grading without showing it to the student.
- Publish evaluation to student – a one-time grading: the student sees the points, the feedback and the model solutions that were held back. There is no revision round.