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  1. Introduction
  2. Request a Staging Course
  3. Workshop Overview
  4. Create a Pool
  5. Create a Multiple Choice Question
  6. Create Multiple Choice Question with Images
  7. Create Multiple Answer Question
  8. Create Either/Or Question
  9. Create Matching Question
  10. Create Ordering Question
  11. Create Calculated Numeric Question
  1. Create Calculated Formula Question
  2. Create an Essay Question
  3. Edit Questions
  4. Create a Test
  5. Add Questions from Pool to Test
  6. Deploy Test
  7. Check a Test/Exam as a Student
  8. Mark Test Questions
  9. Enter Marks by Question
  10. Help available
  11. Review and submit

13. Create an Essay Question

Overview

Essay questions should be created instead of Short Answer Questions because there is a known issue that students cannot submit if they add a large amount of text.

Create an Essay Question

For more information, refer to the Essay guide.

For additional information, refer to the Add Personalised Feedback and Add Metadata to Questions video.

Task to complete

Example question

Explain the process and ethics of Multi-Level Marketing.

essay question example

Create an Essay Question 

  1. In your Learn.UQ course, from the Control Panel, select Course Tools > Tests, Surveys and Pools > Pools.
  2. Click on the drop-down arrow next to Test Pool [your full name] then select Edit.
  3. In your Pool, click on Create Question > Essay.
  4. Enter "Explain the process and ethics of Multi-Level Marketing." in the Question Text textbox.
  5. Click on the Submit button.