How to Create and Customize Quizzes

Learn to create and customize Quizzes in your Courses built on Kajabi.

What is a quiz?

Test your customers’ knowledge and understanding and create an engaging Course experience with Quizzes.

When you create a Quiz in your Kajabi Course, you’ll be able to add multiple questions and choose from four different questions types (Multiple choice, Checkboxes, Short answer, and File upload).

You can create graded or non-graded Quiz questions, plus an auto-grading option is available for Multiple choice and Checkbox questions. You also have the option to require a passing Quiz grade to advance in the Course.

Create a quiz

Quizzes can be added at any point in your Course to test your customers’ understanding.

To create a Quiz:

Open the Products tab from your Dashboard.
Select the Course Product where you wish to add your Quiz or create a new Course.
Click + Add Content on the Module where you want to add your Quiz.
(Or alternately click the Add content button at the top right of the Course Outline).
Select Quiz to open the Quiz Builder and begin creating your Quiz:

Want to use an existing Quiz in your Course Product? Learn to import an existing Lesson or Quiz into your Course Product.

Quiz questions

Create a variety of questions with your choice of four question types:

Multiple choice - multiple options with one correct answer.
Checkboxes - multiple options with one or more correct answers.
Short answer - use a text field to free-write a response to a prompt.
File upload - upload a file as an answer to a prompt.

To add a Multiple choice or Checkboxes question to your Quiz:

Input your question text in the Question text entry field.
Select the Multiple choice or Checkboxes question type from the drop-down menu.
Use the Graded question toggle to choose between a graded or non-graded question.
Multiple choice and Checkboxes questions will be auto-graded if the toggle is on.
(Optional) Click Attach image to attach an image to your question if desired.
Input your first answer option in the Option 1 text entry field.
(Optional) Click the image icon to add an image to your answer option if desired.
(Optional) Click Add explanation to add an explanation for the answer choice. The explanation will be displayed with the Quiz Results after the Quiz is graded.
Click Add option to input your next answer option, and repeat until done.
If you’re creating a graded question:
Select the radio button next to the correct answer for a Multiple choice question.
Select the checkbox(es) next to the correct answer(s) for a Checkboxes question.
Click Save to keep and apply your changes:

To add a Short answer or File upload question to your Quiz:

Input your question text in the Question text entry field.
Select the Short answer or File upload question type from the drop-down menu.
Use the Graded question toggle to choose between a graded or non-graded question.
Short answer and File upload questions must be manually graded if the toggle is on.
(Optional) Attach an image to your question if desired.
Click Save to keep and apply your changes:

Click + Add question to add another question, and repeat the steps above until you’ve finished adding all of your Quiz questions.

Non-Graded Quizzes

To create an entirely non-graded Quiz, make sure the Graded question toggle is set to off and you see the Non-graded status on each of your Quiz questions:

Also be sure to toggle off the Set a passing grade option in your Quiz Settings:

Learn more about how to customize your Quiz Settings.

Edit your quiz

Once you’ve created a Quiz, you can edit your Quiz by duplicating a question, deleting a question, or reordering your questions. You can also create an automation to Tag your Quiz takers based on their answer choices for your Multiple choice or Checkboxes questions.

To duplicate or delete a question:

Click the … menu at the top right corner of the Quiz question.
Select Duplicate question or Delete question as desired.
Click Save to keep and apply your changes:

To reorder your questions:

Locate the dotted icon at the top center of the question block you wish to move.
Click the icon and move your cursor to drag and drop the question to your desired location in the Quiz.
Click Save to keep your changes:

Drag and drop at the dotted icon on the left of each answer option to reorder the answer options inside a Quiz question:

To Tag a Quiz taker based on their answer to a Multiple choice or Checkboxes question:

Click the … menu at the top right corner of the Quiz question.
Select Tag responses.
Use the dropdown menu next to each answer option to choose or create the Tag you’d like to add to your Quiz taker’s Contact profile when they select that answer.
Click Done when you’ve finished creating your tagging automations.
Click Save to keep and apply your changes:

You can remove your tagging automations by selecting Tag responses again and clicking the X next to each Tag you want to delete.

Learn more about how Tags work on Kajabi.

Customize your quiz settings

Use the Quiz Builder Settings tab to update your Quiz title and description, set a passing grade, customize how Quiz takers receive results, set up notifications, or add automations.

Details

Add a Title, Description, and Image for your Quiz:

Grading

Toggle on the Set a passing grade setting to mark auto-graded or manually graded Quizzes as passed or failed. Enabling this setting will allow you to set a passing grade percentage. You can also optionally:

Send the Quiz taker an email with a link to their graded Quiz results.
Customize the email content in Settings > Email Templates > Quiz Grade Published.
Prevent the Quiz taker from advancing to the next Lesson without a passing grade.
Important Note: Selecting this option will disable the “Mark as complete” button until the Quiz is passed and stop the Quiz taker from advancing past the Quiz page. However, to prevent your Quiz taker from accessing further content via the Course index page, you must also Lock the Module(s) or Submodules(s) you wish to prevent the Quiz taker from accessing until after they’ve passed the Quiz. Learn more about how to Lock content in your Course.

Note:

If you’re creating a non-graded Quiz, make sure to toggle off the “Set a passing grade” option. Also check that all of your Quiz questions are marked as “Non-graded”.

Toggle on the Hide answers on results page setting to prevent your Quiz takers from viewing the correct answers to the questions they missed after their Quiz submission:

Notifications

You can also choose who gets notified when a Quiz is completed:

Send the Quiz taker a completion confirmation email with a link to their Quiz results.
Customize the email content in Settings > Email Templates > Quiz Completion.
Send a Quiz completion notification email to yourself or your team.

Automation

Click + Add Automation to trigger an automated action upon any of the following events:

Quiz is completed
Quiz is failed
Quiz is passed

Learn more about how Automations work on Kajabi.

Preview and publish your quiz

When you’re finished building your Quiz, preview the Quiz taker’s experience and then publish the Quiz to your Course.

To preview your Quiz:

Click the Preview icon at the top right of the Quiz Builder (next to the Save button).
Input answers to your Quiz questions as if you were a Quiz taker.
Click Submit to submit your answers.
When the pop-up modal appears, click Yes, submit to confirm:

If your Quiz questions are all auto-graded (or a combination of auto-graded and non-graded) and you toggled on the Set passing grade setting, you’ll see your score results and find out if you passed or failed:

If your Quiz questions are all auto-graded (or a combination of auto-graded and non-graded) and you toggled off the Set passing grade setting, you’ll just see your score results:

If any of your Quiz questions are set as manually graded, you’ll see a message that your grade will be available once your Quiz has been reviewed. If all of your Quiz questions are set as non-graded, you’ll simply see a notification that your answers have been recorded.

To publish your Quiz:

Click the status dropdown at the top right of the Quiz Builder (next to the Preview icon).
The status dropdown will be set to “Draft” by default.
Select Publish to publish your Quiz.
(Note: To revert your Quiz back to Draft status, click the dropdown and select Draft):

View results and grade your quiz

You can view your Quiz takers’ results on the Quiz Builder Results tab.

You can also manually grade Short answer and File upload questions here. Grade the results of each completed Quiz and leave feedback and comments for your Quiz takers to review.

To grade a Quiz:

Open the Products tab from your Dashboard.
Select the Course Product where you wish to grade your Quiz.
Select the title of your Quiz or the Edit quiz icon to open the Quiz Builder.
Click the Results tab just beneath the Quiz title.
Locate the Quiz taker’s results record.
Click Grade Quiz:

Mark each answer correct or incorrect

To mark an answer correct, select the checkmark icon.
To mark an answer incorrect, select the X icon.

The grading icons will be disabled for non-graded and auto-graded questions. However, you can still leave feedback on those questions.

Leave your feedback

Click Leave feedback below a question to give your Quiz Taker feedback on that question. You can leave feedback to help them correct their mistakes, or simply leave an encouraging note. Click Submit to save your feedback:

Provide additional comments

You can also leave additional comments on the Quiz results to help your Quiz taker or offer some words of encouragement:

When you’re done grading a Quiz, click Publish grade at the top right to share the Quiz results with your Quiz Taker:

Note:

Non-graded questions will not count toward the numerator or denominator used to calculate the Quiz score.

Quiz Taker’s view of graded results

After you publish a graded Quiz, the Quiz Taker will be able to view their Quiz results inside the Course:

If you’ve toggled on the Send email to member with link to results setting, your Quiz Taker will also receive an email notification with a link to their results.

Quizzes can be retaken at any time by clicking the "Retake quiz" button.

Delete a quiz

You can remove a Quiz from your Course by deleting it from either the Quiz Settings or your Course Outline.

To delete your Quiz from the Quiz Settings:

Open the Products tab.
Select the Course Product containing the Quiz you wish to delete.
Click the title of your Quiz to open it.
Click the Settings tab just beneath the Quiz title.
Navigate to the bottom of the page.
Click Delete Quiz.
Confirm the deletion by clicking Delete in the prompt:

To delete your Quiz from the Course Outline:

Open the Products tab.
Select the Course Product containing the Quiz you wish to delete.
Locate your Quiz in your Course Outline.
Click the status (i.e. Published or Draft) next to your Quiz title.
Select Delete Quiz.
Confirm the deletion by clicking Delete Quiz again in the prompt:

And that’s how you can create and customize Quizzes! Please vote below and let us know if you found this article helpful. We value your feedback. Thanks for being the best part of Kajabi!

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What is a quiz?