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<aside> 💡 Essay questions are used for students to type in a long response or upload a document that contains an essay. Essay questions are manually graded.

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Step 1: Creating Essay Questions

1. Turn on Edit Mode, which is a toggle located on the top right of your main course page.
2. Create a quiz or locate a quiz you already have created.
3. Click on the name of the quiz.
4. Click the Actions menu on the right
5. Click Edit Quiz.
6. Click Add.
7. Click + a new question.
8. Scroll through the menu and select Essay.

Step 2: Customizing the Question

• “Category” field: This option allows you to add this question into a question bank. This is beneficial if creating pools of questions to generate quizzes from. For more information on creating and using question banks contact the office of digital teaching and learning.

  1. Select the pulldown menu.
  2. Select the preferred question bank.

• “Question name” field: This is used to identify each individual question, which can be useful for editing the questions later or adding them to question banks.

  Example: Type a question name such as “Question 1" or “Q1”

• "Default points” field: Enter the number of points this question is worth. If needed, this can be changed later.

• “General Feedback” field: This area is used to provide general feedback related to the question only. The feedback entered in this field should not be specific to the answer the student provides. General feedback is optional.

• "ID number” field: This is not needed. Skip this step.