Change my quiz questions and answers
Questions get rewritten. A wording turns out to be ambiguous, an answer was marked wrong, a new module makes an old question redundant. All of it is one conversation, and none of it disturbs anyone who has already taken the quiz.
Changing one
Say which quiz and which question. Bernard reads the quiz back to you first - the questions, all the options, and which one he's holding as correct - then makes the change you asked for.
- Reword a question or an option. "Question 2 should say glaze rather than coating."
- Fix the answer key. "The right answer to question 4 is the third option, not the second." Worth checking early: a wrong key tells learners they're wrong when they're right, which is worse than having no quiz.
- Add or remove a question. "Add one about firing temperatures." "Drop question 6, it's covered in the next module."
- Change the order. "Put the definition question first."
Writing questions that are worth answering
The ones that work test whether the learner can use the lesson, not whether they can remember a phrase from it. A few habits that help:
- One idea per question. If it needs an "and", it's two questions.
- Make every option plausible. An option nobody would ever choose teaches nothing and gives the answer away.
- Keep the wording plain. You're checking whether they understood the subject, not whether they can parse the question.
- Draw on what you actually taught. Bernard reads your lesson notes and the words spoken in your video, so the questions stay inside the material (Add a quiz to my course).
The quiz page itself is not the place to change any of this. bernard rebuilds that page from the quiz every time anything moves, so an edit typed into the page would be wiped - which is why the AI declines to make one and goes to the quiz instead (Why won't the AI edit my course or shop pages?).
Your answers stay yours
The answer key is yours alone. It's never sent to a learner's browser, so there is nothing on the page for anyone to read out of - the marking happens on bernard's side and only the verdict comes back (Who marks my quizzes?). Don't paste the answers into the lesson notes either: those are a page like any other, and anyone enrolled can read them.
If several people are editing your site at once, bernard won't let two edits to the same quiz land on top of each other: the second one is asked to look at the current version first, so nobody's rewrite quietly disappears. And if a change turns out to be wrong, it comes back like any other (Put it back how it was).
The prompt
“In my [course name] quiz on [lesson name], change question [which one] - it should say [the new wording], and the right answer is [the correct option].”
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
- Can I fix a question after learners have already taken the quiz?
- Yes, and it's safe to. Anyone who has already sat it keeps the result they were given, because every attempt is marked against the wording that was on the page at the time. Your change applies to the next person who takes it, once you approve it.
- Can a question have more than one right answer?
- Yes. Say so and it becomes a tick-box question where the learner has to pick all the right options and none of the wrong ones. A single-choice question is the other kind: exactly one option is right and the learner picks one.
- Can some questions be worth more than others?
- Yes. A question can carry more weight than the others, and the percentage is worked out over the weight rather than the number of questions - so a five-mark question moves the result more than a one-mark question.
- Can I tell learners why an answer was wrong?
- Yes. Each question can carry a line of feedback shown after marking - the sentence you'd say if you were in the room. Write it once and every learner gets it. Like every change, it shows up after you approve it.