Create a quiz assignment

This article is for teachers with a Google Workspace for Education account. If you don't know your Google Workspace account, ask your administrator.

You can create a quiz assignment in Classroom where students complete and submit a Google Forms quiz. You can assign the quiz assignment to one or more classes or to individual students, schedule it to post later, add a due date and time, and add attachments.

Google Forms can automatically mark the quiz, and you can import the marks into Classroom. Students can see their marks immediately or after you've reviewed their answers. You can also lock a quiz on Chromebooks managed by your school.

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Create and edit quiz assignments

Create a quiz assignment

Step 1: Create the assignment 

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. Click the classClasswork. 
3. At the top, click CreateQuiz assignment.
   
4. Enter the title and any instructions.
5. (Optional) To prevent students who use Chromebooks managed by your school from opening other web pages when taking the Forms quiz, next to Locked mode on Chromebooks, click Turn on .
6. (Optional) To import marks, next to Mark importing, click Turn on .

Step 2: Set up your quiz in Google Forms

When you create a quiz assignment, Classroom creates a blank quiz using Google Forms and attaches the form to the assignment.

In the assignment, click the Forms quiz attachment and set up your quiz. You can let students see their mark immediately after they've submitted their answers. If you change the name of the quiz in Google Drive, the name is updated in Classroom.

For details, go to Create and mark quizzes with Google Forms.

Lock a quiz on Chromebooks

If students are using Chromebooks managed by your school, you can lock the Chromebook while they take a quiz. When the Chromebook is locked, students can’t open other browser tabs. You’ll get an email if a student exits the Forms quiz and then reopens it. Unmanaged devices can’t access the Forms quiz.

Accessibility features

Students can use the following accessibility features when a Chromebook is locked:

• ChromeVox (text-to-speech)
• High-contrast mode
• Full-screen and docked magnifier

If you can't find an accessibility feature, use its shortcut.

Use Chrome extensions for accessibility and productivity

Check out these recommended Chrome extensions from our partners:

• Quizbot
• Snap&Read 
• Co:Writer
• EquatIO
• Read&Write for Google Chrome

For more details, go to Turn on Chromebook accessibility features.

Create a quiz confirmation message

When students submit a quiz in Forms, they get a confirmation message. You can customise this message for any Forms quiz. For example, you might want to give students a date when you’ll mark and return their answers.

1. In Forms, open a quiz.
2. Click Settings Presentation.
3. Under Confirmation message, enter your text and click Save.

Change the point value for questions

The point value for questions is automatically set to zero. To change the default point value for questions:

1. In Forms, open a quiz.
2. At the top, click More Preferences.
3. If you want to change the default value for all questions in the quiz, tick the Default quiz point value box, enter a value and click Save.
4. If you want to change the point value for a question:
   1. On the question, click Answer key.
   2. Enter the value and click Done.

Allow students to upload files in a quiz

You can have students upload files as a response to a quiz or attach files to responses. If you create your form in a shared drive, students can’t upload files. 

Uploaded files save to the form creator's Google Drive. You can specify the file types that you accept as well as limit the number of files and file size.

1. In your Forms quiz, click Add question .
2. Next to the question type, click the down arrow File upload. You might have to click Continue.
3. (Optional) To set the file types that students can upload, next to Allow only specific file types, click the On switch and select the file types.
4. (Optional) To limit the number of files that students can upload, next to Maximum number of files, click the down arrow  and choose a number.
5. (Optional) To limit the size of a file that students can upload, next to Maximum file size, click the down arrow  and choose a size.

Related topics

• What are shared drives?
• Manage files in your Google Drive storage

Import quiz marks from Forms to Classroom

To import marks:

• The quiz must be the only attachment on the assignment.
• Students are limited to one response and must be in the same domain as the teacher.
• The form must collect student email addresses.

If you change any of these settings or edit the assignment after you've saved or postit it, you might not be able to import marks.

Tip: If you attach a form as a link in Classroom, you can't import student marks. 

Import quiz marks

When you import marks, all marks are imported. You can’t select some marks to import. When you import the marks, the import overrides any current marks for the assignment. Therefore, if the Forms quiz is only one part of an assignment, import the quiz marks first.

To import marks:

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. Click a classClasswork. 
3. Click the assignment with the quizView Assignment.
4. On the Student work page, click Import marks.

   Note: If you don’t see Import marks, your form wasn’t set up as a quiz or you didn’t turn on Mark importing when you created the assignment.

5. Click Import.

Classroom enters marks for each student. If you didn’t assign points, the assignment is labelled unmarked.

Change marks after import

The marks in Forms and Classroom are separate. If you change the marks in Forms after you've imported them to Classroom, click Import marks to bring the new marks into Classroom and overwrite the previous marks.

For details on how to track marks changes, go to See the mark and submission history of an assignment.

See student answers and return marks

To see student answers:

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. Click the classClasswork.
3. On the quiz assignment, click the quiz attachment.
   
4. Click Edit Responses.

To return marks to students:

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [e-mail] or [e-mail]. Learn more.

2. Click the classClasswork.
3. Click the quiz assignment.
4. On the left, select the students who you want to return marks to.
5. Click ReturnReturn to confirm.

Related topics

• Create an assignment
• Create and mark quizzes with Google Forms
• Reuse an assignment (quiz)
• Mark and return an assignment
• Forms cheat sheet