--- title: "Adding a Calculated multichoice question in the Moodle Question Bank" description: "In the Moodle 2.3 Question Bank, Calculated questions can be set up as multichoice questions. For more information on setting up a Calculated Question click here. The difference between the..." url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/moodle/calculated-multichoice-bank/ date: 2012-10-31 modified: 2021-08-16 author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor" categories: ["Moodle"] type: post lang: en --- # Adding a Calculated multichoice question in the Moodle Question Bank In the Moodle 2.3 **Question Bank**, Calculated questions can be set up as multichoice questions. For more information on setting up a Calculated Question click [here](/support/edu/moodle/calculated-question-bank/). The difference between the **Calculated Question** and the **Calculated Multichoice Question** is that the calculated question has a text box to input the answer; whereas, the multichoice question has options to select the correct answer. The following will walk through the steps in creating a multichoice question. ### Creating a Calculated multichoice question in the Moodle Question Bank 1. [Log into the Moodle Dashboard](/support/edu/moodle/moodle-login-administrator/) 2. Navigate to **Front page settings** > **Question bank** > **Questions** in the Settings section on the left.. 3. Click **Create a new question**. When the **Choose a question type to add** box pops up, select the **Calculated multichoice** radio button and click **Next**. 4. [![calculated-mulitchoice-bank-3-general-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-3-general.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-3-general.gif) In the **Adding a Calculated multichoice question** page, Fill out the **General** section. This will be the same as what was done in the [Inserting a Calculated question in the Moodle Question Bank](/support/edu/moodle/calculated-question-bank/) tutorial. 5. [![calculated-mulitchoice-bank-4-choice-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-4-choice.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-4-choice.gif) Next fill out the **Choices** for each answer. One choice will be the correct choice and the others will be incorrect. So for **Choice 1** the formula will give the correct answer. **Choice 2**, **Choice 3**, **Choice 4**and so forth will contain the incorrect answer. In this tutorial, the question will be: **What is the difference between {A} and {B}?** The following table explains the values necessary for the question to be set up appropriately. **…{={x}+..}…** type the formula for the correct answer. The format will basically be in curly brackets with the = in it. For example, in the current question “*What is the difference between {A} and {B}?*” the correct formula would be **{={A}-{B}}**. **Correct Answer shows and Format** This setting is to display precisely the Answer number of decimal or significant figure. **Feedback** This will display text when the student answers the question.. 6. [![calculated-mulitchoice-bank-5-feedback-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-5-feedback.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-5-feedback.gif) In the Combined feedback section, fill in the response that the student will see when they answer the question. **Correct**, **Partially correct**, and **Incorrect** responses can be set here. When the question parameters are set click **Save changes**. 7. [![calculated-mulitchoice-bank-6-dataset-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-6-dataset.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-6-dataset.gif) On the **Choose Wildcards dataset properties** page click next. (This section will be discussed in detail in a different article.) 8. [![calculated-mulitchoice-bank-7-add-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-7-add.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-7-add.gif) On the **Edit the wildcards datasets** page, where the **Add** section is located, make sure to click **Add**. **Important!** . If the dataset item is not added, there will be an error message stating: You must add at least one dataset item before you can save this question. Once the dataset is added, click **Save changes**. (This section will be discussed in detail in a different article.) 9. [![calculated-mulitchoice-bank-8-preview-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-8-preview.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-8-preview.gif) Now the question will show in the **Question bank**. Click the **Preview** link to preview the question. 10. [![calculated-mulitchoice-bank-9-final-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-9-final.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_104_calculated-multi-bank_calculated-mulitchoice-bank-9-final.gif) The when the question is answered it should look like the following snapshot. Congratulations! the Calculated Multichoice question was created. This concludes the article on Creating a Calculated multichoice question. Setting up Wildcards and Datasets are an essential part of the Calculated Question. Please check the next article on [How to Create Wildcards and datasets in Moodle](/support/edu/moodle/wildcard-dataset/). Please see the [Working with the Question Bank](/support/edu/wordpress/wordpress-changing-the-site-url-and-home-settings/) course section for more articles on the Question Bank. Also, visit [Working with the calculated question Tolerance in Moodle 2.3](/support/edu/moodle/calculated-tolerance/) to learn how to configure the Answer Tolerance for Calculated questions.