Managing your questions by category

FlexiQuiz supports you to create a quiz with questions categorized by topic, such as difficulty level or subject.

Categorizing questions allows you to identify and share students' areas of strength or weakness. This not only helps in understanding the learning curve of your students but also aids in creating personalized learning paths.

This guide shows you how to make a quiz with questions tagged by category, how you can share category results with students and how you can analyze the data.

How to make a quiz with questions that have category tags

You can add questions with category tags to your quizzes in two ways.

#1. Use questions from your question bank

The benefit of using questions from your bank is that you can give users a different set of questions each time they take the test and quickly create different tests.

Firstly, you need to add the questions to your bank and tag the category for each question. Learn more about building your question bank.
From your main FlexiQuiz dashboard, press +Create and choose the Classic quiz type.
Now, enter a name for your quiz and press Create.
Next, press Add Item and pick Question bank from the drop-down menu. A window will pop up listing all the categories in your bank and the number of questions in each category.

Question bank with questions stored by category

To add the questions to your quiz, go to the relevant category and press select action.
Choose add to quiz from the drop-down menu.
A new window will pop up for you to enter how many questions you want to add to the quiz.
Then press the blue Add button.

Your quiz will now display a placeholder showing the number of questions that the system will randomly select from your desired category.

Quiz creator with placeholder with questions from the bank

Manually add the category

You can add a category tag to a question as you create your quiz question.

To start, add your quiz question in the usual way.
On the question editor pop-up, tick the box Set categories.
A new Categories option will appear. Press the Add button from a drop-down list of all categories in your bank.
You can choose an existing category or add a new category.

question editor with box to tag a category

Press Save to add the question to your quiz and question bank.

Sharing category results with your students

FlexiQuiz allows you to easily configure the system to display category scores on the results screen and email notifications.

How to share category scores on the results screen

Go to the Configure tab and select Results from the left-hand menu.
Keep the box for Show results page ticked.
Next to results page options, tick the box category scores.

Finish building your quiz.

Quiz takers can now view their score split by category on their results screen.

How to add category scores to PDFs

FlexiQuiz provides you with the flexibility to share category scores on a downloadable PDF, that you can share with your learners.

Go to the Configure tab and choose Results from the left-hand menu.
Tick the box Show results page.
Scroll down, and next to the results page options, tick the box Review answers report.
Next, tick the box Show category scores.
Finally, tick the box Can download PDF.
Finish configuring your test and publish.

How to display category scores on email notifications

With email notifications, you can email results to learners directly from your FlexiQuiz account. You can include the category scores in the optional PDF attached to your email and in the body of the email.

Go to the Configure tab and choose Notifications from the menu on the left-hand side.
Tick the box Email respondent.
Scroll down the page and tick Customize email messages.
Now select the Respondent – Pass or Respondent – Fail tab.
In the Email message box you can customize the message to students.

Now, go to where you want the category scores to show on your email. Enter the following text: [CategoryScore]

Category scores will now be included in email results that we send learners.

How to analzye results by category

FlexiQuiz equips you with the tools to comprehensively analyze results by category, empowering you with valuable insights. Administrators and Trainers can view category scores for valuable insights into a learner development by exporting them to an Excel spreadsheet.