What is a knowledge check?

A short quiz on a lesson page - a handful of questions with multiple-choice answers. Your learner answers them, presses submit, and is told there and then how they did. It's the same thing whether you call it a quiz, a test or a knowledge check.

Where does the quiz appear?

On one lesson. That lesson becomes the quiz page, so it sits in your syllabus wherever you put it - usually at the end of a module. One lesson holds one check; if you want two, make a second lesson for the second one.

Do I have to write the questions myself?

No. Tell Bernard what the lesson was meant to teach and he drafts the questions and the answers from the lesson itself. You read them back, correct anything that isn't how you'd put it, and approve the change before any learner sees it.

Will my learners see it straight away?

No. A new check lands in your site's private draft, like every other change. It reaches your learners when you approve it.

Add a quiz to my course

A knowledge check is the difference between a learner watching a lesson and a learner knowing they got it. It takes a couple of minutes to add, and from then on it marks itself.

How it works

Pick the lesson it belongs on. Usually the last lesson of a module, or a lesson of its own called something like Check your understanding. That lesson becomes the quiz page (Add a lesson to my course if it doesn't exist yet).
Say what the learner should have understood. Two or three things is plenty. Bernard reads the lesson - your notes, and the words spoken in your video if it has one - and drafts the questions from what you actually taught, not from what he imagines you taught.
Read the answers back. This is the part only you can do: you're the one who knows which answer is right. Bernard shows you each question and says which option he's marked correct, and you say if he's wrong.
Approve. The quiz page renders into your draft with the rest of your course. Approve it and it's live.

What a learner meets

All the questions on one page, radio buttons or tick boxes, and a submit button that stays off until they've answered everything. When they submit, they see how they did immediately - a percentage, a pass or not-yet, and where they went wrong (Who marks my quizzes?).

They can try again as many times as they like, and their best attempt is the one that counts (Set the pass mark and how many retakes).

Not every check has a right answer

Some checks are really surveys - "how confident do you feel about this now?" There's no correct option to mark, and there shouldn't be. Tell Bernard the question is a survey question and it's recorded without being scored: the learner is simply credited with having taken part.

Once the questions exist, changing them is another conversation (Change my quiz questions and answers) - and if your course ends in a certificate, the checks you mark as required are the ones that stand between a learner and earning it (Make my quizzes count towards a certificate).

The prompt

“Add a quiz to my [course name] course, on the [lesson name] lesson. I want to check people have understood: [the two or three things that matter].”

Press Copy, then paste it into your AI and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard first - a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI.

Questions people ask

What is a knowledge check?: A short quiz on a lesson page - a handful of questions with multiple-choice answers. Your learner answers them, presses submit, and is told there and then how they did. It's the same thing whether you call it a quiz, a test or a knowledge check.
Where does the quiz appear?: On one lesson. That lesson becomes the quiz page, so it sits in your syllabus wherever you put it - usually at the end of a module. One lesson holds one check; if you want two, make a second lesson for the second one.
Do I have to write the questions myself?: No. Tell Bernard what the lesson was meant to teach and he drafts the questions and the answers from the lesson itself. You read them back, correct anything that isn't how you'd put it, and approve the change before any learner sees it.
Will my learners see it straight away?: No. A new check lands in your site's private draft, like every other change. It reaches your learners when you approve it.