Create a Quiz in Sleedu — and the Switch Bank Trick

A quiz in Sleedu doesn’t hold its own questions — it pulls them from a question bank. That’s why the last two guides had you organize your bank with one folder per activity: building a quiz is now just pointing it at the right folder. This guide walks elementary teachers through creating an auto-grading quiz from start to finish, including the one step that trips up almost everyone — the Switch bank button that unlocks every question bank you have access to. The example is a 3rd Grade multiplication and division quiz.

Step 1 — Turn on Edit mode

At the top right of your course, flip Edit mode on.

Step 2 — Add an activity to your month

In the current month’s section, click the round + button and choose Activity or resource.

Step 3 — Choose Quiz

In the chooser, click Quiz.

Step 4 — Name your quiz

Give the quiz a name students will recognize — for example, Math Autograding Activity – Multiplication and Division. The description is optional for a quiz; the questions carry the directions.

Step 5 — Set the timing

Open the Timing section:

Open the quiz — leave unchecked if you want the quiz available as soon as students can see it, or set a date to hold it until quiz day.
Close the quiz — check Enable and set the deadline.
Time limit — optional. If you use one, keep When time expires on “Open attempts are submitted automatically,” so a student who runs out of time still gets credit for everything they answered.

Step 6 — Pick the grade category

In the Grade section, open Grade category and choose the category this quiz belongs to — here, Math: Operations & Algebraic Thinking. Just like an assignment, this one choice files the quiz score into the right column of your gradebook. This is also where Attempts allowed lives — for elementary practice quizzes, allowing more than one attempt turns the quiz into a learning tool instead of a one-shot test.

Step 7 — Optional: require a password

Under Extra restrictions on attempts, you can set a Require password. Students cannot start the quiz until you tell them the password — perfect for making sure everyone starts together in class, and for stopping an eager student from taking the quiz at home the night before. Type the password and press Enter to save.

Step 8 — Save, then add questions

Click Save and display. The quiz page opens — it has settings and dates, but zero questions. Click Add question.

Step 9 — Add from the question bank

On the questions page, set the Maximum grade (the total the quiz is worth), then click the small Add dropdown and choose + from question bank.

Step 10 — The hidden trick: Switch bank

Here’s where most teachers get stuck. The window that opens says Current bank — and it’s pointing at the quiz’s own tiny, empty bank, not the one that holds your questions. Your questions are one click away: press Switch bank.

🔑 Switch bank is the key to everything. It opens a list of every question bank you can use: this quiz’s own bank, your course’s bank, banks you viewed recently, and banks from your other courses. Pick the bank for the course you are teaching — here, 3rd Grade course question bank — and its folders become available to your quiz.

Step 11 — Filter to your activity’s folder

Now the window shows your course bank, but filtered to its default category — which is empty if you followed the golden rule of one folder per activity. Click the category chip, and choose the folder for this quiz — here, Multiplication and Division Activity (12). All twelve questions appear.

Step 12 — Check the questions and add them

Tick the checkbox for each question you want — or the box at the top of the list to select them all — then click Add selected questions to the quiz.

Step 13 — Pull from another folder any time

Need questions from a second folder — say, a set you imported from Win Elements or another teacher? Click Add → from question bank again, switch the category filter to that folder, and add. You can mix folders freely; the quiz remembers where every question came from.

✅ You are done when: your quiz sits in the right month, its grade goes to the right category, and its questions page lists everything you pulled from your bank. From here, Sleedu grades every attempt automatically — you teach, it scores. That completes the essential Start Here path for elementary teachers.