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How a Moodle quiz works
The word “quiz” might conjure up for some images of TV game shows, but a Moodle quiz is basically a set of questions presented to the learner which may be automatically marked by Moodle or graded later by the teacher. The questions may be in sentence or number form or contain various media such as video or sound. They do not all need to be the same type of questions: a quiz may contain multiple choice, matching, essays (teacher-graded) and calculated. Feedback may be given at any or all stages of the process.
Once a quiz is made, that’s not the end of it. A Moodle quiz is environmentally friendly: its questions are saved in a Question bank and may be recycled for use elsewhere. Thus, Mr Brown could create a Physics Quiz with 20 questions for his class, Class Brown, and his colleague Mr Smith sharing the course could save himself valuable time by resusing 5 of Mr Brown’s questions in his own General Science quiz for Class Smith. (See also Question Sharer role for sharing questions across the site)
If a quiz is a book, the Quiz settings are equivalent to the front cover; the quiz itself is contained within when the questions are created. (Be careful : once you have chosen the Quiz Settings, it will be “live” on your course page, unless you hide it, so your learners could potentially see a quiz with no questions, like a front cover with no content.)
Once a quiz has been added to the course and the Quiz settings established,the teacher can start to build the quiz. The teacher can access the quiz to edit the questions by clicking directly on the Quiz name on the course home page and then "Edit quiz" or by clicking the "info" link in the Navigation block. The "Edit quiz link can also be accessed from Settings>Quiz administration.
Compiling a new quiz
Adding questions to a quiz
Once you’ve created your questions, you’ll need to add them to the quiz. There are many types in the Question bank that you can use. Alternatively, you may choose to import questions.
Your first decision is whether to click on "Add a question" button, or show the question bank contents, or add a random question from the question bank with the button. Since we will describe Using question bank in more detail elsewhere, we will create a question "on the fly". It will be automatically be added to the question bank in the default category for our quiz.
- Click on the "Add a question" button
- Select your question type (We will select Multiple choice)
- Complete the question form and save the question.
You can keep adding questions this way.
Ordering and paging in a quiz
Settings >Quiz administration > Edit Quiz > Ordering and paging
There are several ways to change the order of the questions in a quiz. You can "repaginate" by setting the number of questions per page. After setting the number of questions per page, you can move questions so that there are a different number of questions on each page.
- TIP: Remember, one of the quiz setting will randomize the questions and this will over-ride any previous number of questions that were put on a page.
Lets put 2 questions on each page, then change the order.
- In on the Edit Quiz page, click on the "Ordering and paging" tab
- Click on the "Repaginate" button
- Use pulldown menu to repaginate with 2 questions per page
- Click "Go"
Now we have set up 2 questions per page. Page 2 only has 1 question because we only have 3 questions in our quiz.
- Tip: Best practice is to get all your questions in your quiz if you plan to have different numbers of questions on each page. Repaginate will regroup the questions.
You now have a choice when it comes to moving questions. You can use:
- Move icon - move 1 question up or down in the order
- "Move selected questions to page" tool - adds selected to the page you select
- Change the number order and click one of the "Reorder questions" buttons - will automatically renumber the question in increments of 10. But it will recognize single digit numbers when it reorders questions.
Assign points per questions
Settings > Quiz administration > Edit quiz > Editing quiz
In our example, we assigned the quiz 10 points in the quiz settings. By default the Quiz module said each question was worth 1 point. Thus each question is worth the same. You can change how much a question is worth by changing the number in the grade box and then clicking on save.
- Tip: Each save button is independent of each other. Thus if you change 2 grade boxes and click on the "Save" button, only the grade next to that button will be saved. Your other changes will revert to what they were before. Best practice is to change the grade and save one question at a time.
Notice in the above example, the total of grades is 5 and the quiz is worth 10 points in the course. The quiz module will do the math, so the 2 point question is worth 2 times more when the Quiz module determines how many point out of 10 to award the student.
Adding random questions
A random question places a link that will select a unique question at random from a specific question category. Random questions are selected when the quiz is generated for a specific student attempt.
This means that different students are likely to get a different selection of questions when they attempt this quiz. For example, when a quiz has 10 random questions that draw on a question category with 30 questions. If a quiz allows multiple attempts for each student then each attempt will also contain a new selection of questions.
The same question will never appear twice in a quiz. If you include several random questions then different questions will always be chosen for each of them. If you mix random questions with non-random questions then the random questions will be chosen so that they do not duplicate one of the non-random questions. This does imply that you need to provide enough questions in the category from which the random questions are chosen, otherwise the student will be shown a friendly error message. The more questions you provide the more likely it will be that students get different questions on each attempt.
The grade for the randomly chosen question will be rescaled so that the maximum grade is what you have chosen as the grade for the random question.
To add random questions, select the question category you wish to use, then use the drop-down menu at the bottom of the Question Bank in the right column. Select the number of random questions you wish to add, and click 'Add'. The random question link will appear on the quiz question list in the left column. [[Image:Quiz Random Question select.png|thumb|center|Here we are selecting 2 random question from the "Default for New Features" category]]<br style="clear:both;">
Previewing questions
After you have added questions to the quiz, they will appear on the left. Notice the preview and edit icons next to the fixed questions.
This quiz will work like a real quiz. Submit the quiz to see your answers. Here is the same quiz where we got a question incorrect. It shows feedbacks.
After quiz has been attempted
If one or more students have taken the quiz, you will see a list of all the questions in the quiz and a notice saying that you cannot add or remove questions.
You can move questions in a different order, re grade questions, preview an individual question and click on an question edit link that will allow you to directly edit the question stored in the question bank.
- TIP: You can delete all quiz attempts by students and then edit the quiz as if no students had attempted it. To do this,click the quiz name and then the Info link in the Navigation block. This will present a list of students and their scores. Use the check box on the left of each student and the delete button/menu item.
- TIP: There are several ways to deal with bad questions in a quiz.
- Change the grade for the bad question to 0 in the quiz.
- Edit the question, changing what you will accept as a correct answer, then regrading the exam. Remember when changing a question that the next time it is used it will be as it was in the last edit. Also, regrading will only effect one quiz at a time.
- You can edit the question to explain the situation to the student and then you can set the grade for the question to zero. After you make such changes you should regrade the quiz by clicking on the Results tab and then the Regrade tab. This will change the grade for all students who have taken the quiz so far. Remember, if the question is used by another quiz, your "explanation" will appear as part of that quiz.
- You can change the grade for the bad question and then move or delete the question from your question category. The question will still appear on the quiz. Some places do not like to delete any question, but will move them to a "dead" or "bad" question category.
- When you discover a bad question in your quiz, it may affect the question bank. Remember that a final might be made up of a certain number of random questions drawn from different question categories, the same categories used in a smaller subject quiz. It can be very important do something about bad or invalid questions in a question category when the categories are use in other places.