Create a Quiz

Quiz lessons are a great way for you to test and track your students' understanding of your course content.

About This Feature

It's been proven that testing your knowledge immediately after learning a new concept can help improve your ability to recall the information at a later time. This is important if you want to ensure that your students are receiving lasting value from your courses.

Quiz lessons will allow your students to test their knowledge throughout your course, while also providing you with the ability to export and review the results later!

How It Works

Quiz lessons within Thinkific allow you to create multiple-choice questions for your students. If you choose to, you can also include multiple correct answers within a single question.

Question types:

One answer - Allows the student to select one option as an answer
One or more answers - Allows the student to select several correct answers and they must select all correct answers to receive a passing mark

To make your questions and answers engaging, you can also use the WYSIWYG text editor to insert a video, embed an image, or audio file within the questions and answers themselves. See Combine Videos and Text in the Same Lesson for more tips on including mixed content within lessons.

We generally suggest including a quiz lesson at the end of a chapter, which will test students on the key takeaways within that chapter. If you want your students to complete the quiz before moving on to the next chapter within your course, you can set it as a prerequisite lesson.

Important Considerations

If you're more comfortable with filling out and uploading a spreadsheet that contains your questions and answers, this is an option! See Importing Quiz Questions for more details on how.
Once your students have completed your quiz, you have the ability to export their results. For steps on how to do this, see Quiz & Survey Export.

How to Create a Quiz Lesson

From your Admin Dashboard, select Products
Select Courses
Click on a specific course in the Course Overview to open the Course Builder
From the Curriculum tab, select the Add Lesson button under your desired chapter on the left-hand side
Select Quiz from the lesson types displayed
Enter a title for your quiz

You will now need to add questions to your quiz. You can add questions either by using a Quiz AI generator, adding questions manually, or by importing them using a .xlsx file.

How to Add Questions Using AI Quiz Generator

This feature is available on the Basic plan and above.

Simplify quiz creation by utilizing the power of AI! The AI Quiz Generator allows you to quickly create a series of multiple-choice questions and answers based on existing text, PDF, and video lessons inside the chapter. Note that videos must have closed captions to be used in quiz generation. To create questions using AI Quiz Generator:

Open the Create with AI menu by clicking on the arrow
Select the number of questions you want to create
Select Generate Questions
The AI Generator will create questions based on the information in text, PDF, and video lessons in the same chapter that the quiz is in. Videos in video lessons must have closed captions to be used in quiz generation.
Once the system has generated the desired number of questions, review the questions and answers.
The answers that the AI Generator determined to be correct will be marked as (Correct).
If you are satisfied with the generated questions, select Accept and add to the quiz. Alternatively, select Regenerate questions to get a new set of questions and answers.
Once the questions are added, you can edit, rearrange, or delete them by following the instructions below.

Important Considerations

The AI Quiz generator is available on all paid plans (Basic and above).
The AI Quiz Generator only uses information found in existing text, PDF, and video lessons within the same chapter where the quiz lesson is located. Videos in video lessons must have closed captions to be used in quiz generation.
Note that some creators might not have the ability to use the videos in AI Quiz Generation. We are working on bringing this functionality to all qualified creators soon.
If your video lessons have text added to them, the AI Quiz Generator will not use this text when generating questions.
The AI Quiz Generator does not use information from videos, images, or external content embedded into a text lesson.
The generated questions and answers will be based on the first 8,000-10,000 words found in the text, PDF, and video lessons in the chapter.
To create AI-generated quiz questions from a PDF, the text in the PDF must be in a format that the AI can read and understand. This means the text should be actual, selectable text rather than images of text. If the text in the PDF is an image (like a photo or scan of a document), the AI cannot process it directly to create questions.
The AI Quiz Generator can be used on new and existing quiz lessons.
The generated questions will have three options and one correct answer. If you would like to add more choices or mark more than one answer as correct, you can do it by editing the questions once they are created.
Once questions are created, you can edit, rearrange, and delete them as required.

How to Add Questions Using Import Questions

See these instructions on how to add multiple questions using an .xlsx file import: Importing Quiz Questions.

How to Add Questions Manually

Within the question type dropdown, select whether your first question will have one correct answer or one or more correct answers
Enter your question within the Question field
Within these fields, you can also choose to use the WYSIWYG editor to include video, images, and audio, among other editing options.
Under Choice 1, enter the first option the student will see
Check or uncheck the box below Choice 1 to determine whether this is the/a correct answer
Following steps 3 and 4, continue to add multiple choices for the answer
If you need to create an additional choice, you can select the add choice button below the last answer. You can also select the trash icon in the right-hand corner of an answer if you want to delete it.
Optional: Enter the correct details within the explanation field
The explanation field can be used to provide students with information immediately after they submit their answers. This explanation will be displayed regardless of whether they get the question right or wrong. However, if a passing grade is required for the quiz, you have the option to enable or disable the display of question explanations under Lesson Settings.
Following the previous steps, continue to add additional questions and answers.
Within the upper right-hand corner of the question, you can use the duplicate button to quickly recreate existing questions, or click on the ellipsis (3 dot icon) to delete questions.

You can also use the reorder icon in the upper left-hand corner of each question to drag and adjust the order in which the student will receive them.
Adjust your Lesson Settings as needed
Select the Save button in the bottom right-hand corner

Setting a Passing Grade Requirement

If you want to ensure students are acing your quizzes, you can choose to require a passing grade!

When this is enabled, students will not be able to reach 100% completion of your course unless they have successfully passed all quizzes where a passing grade is required.

For further info and for steps on how to enable this, see: Requiring a Passing Grade within a Quiz.

If you're not concerned about students passing your quiz, but you want to ensure that they take it, you can choose to set the quiz lesson as a prerequisite. A prerequisite lesson will need to be completed before they can move on to the next chapter within your course.

Randomized Question Bank

We also offer the ability to have a Randomized Question Bank for your quiz lessons!

You can add as many questions as you want within a specific quiz "bank", then select how many questions should appear when a student takes the quiz. The system will then randomly generate a unique quiz for each student. Read more about Randomized Question Banks.

Frequently Asked Questions

I need more advanced quizzing options. What can I do?

While it is only possible at this time to use multiple-choice questions within Thinkfific quizzes, the following options may also be good solutions:

Can I include a video within a quiz question or answer?

Yes! It's definitely possible to add this type of content to your quizzes. See Combine Videos and Text in the Same Lesson for more details on adding a mix of content within your lessons.

Can I limit retake attempts?

We don't currently have the option to limit retakes. If you are looking for some alternative options, check out: Can I turn off the ability for students to retake a quiz?

Will quizzes display correct answers if the student gets them wrong?

By default, quizzes will show correct answers, however this does not apply to quizzes that require a passing grade.

Learn more about default quiz settings.