What is a quiz and what is an activity?

In Quezmo, it is important to distinguish between two fundamental concepts: quiz and activity.

What is a quiz?

A quiz is the template that contains the content to be presented to participants.

It may include:

• Questions and answers.
• Narratives and explanations.
• Images and multimedia content.
• Supporting PDF documents.
• Other elements related to the content.

Quizzes can be of three types:

• Standard quiz: questions without mandatory geographic location.
• Interactive route: questions associated with geographic points.
• Interactive adventure: connected scenes where decisions can modify the path.

The quiz defines what will be worked on, but does not determine the participation conditions.

What is an activity?

An activity is an instance of a quiz with a specific configuration.

It allows determining aspects such as:

• Who can participate.
• When it is available.
• The maximum response time.
• The allowed attempts.
• The scoring system.
• The visibility of the results.
• Access conditions.

Therefore, the activity defines how the quiz will be conducted.

One quiz, multiple activities

The same quiz can be used to create multiple activities with different configurations.

Example

A teacher creates a quiz about the Industrial Revolution and then prepares three activities:

1. A practice activity without time limit.
2. An evaluation activity with limited time.
3. A review activity that allows repeating answers.

All three activities share the same questions but have different execution conditions.

Remember

Quiz = content.

Activity = content + participation configuration.

This separation allows reusing content without needing to duplicate quizzes.