Quiz module: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 15:17, 1 December 2010

The Quiz activity module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types, including multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions are kept in the Question bank and can be re-used in multiple quizzes. Quizzes can be configured to allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers.

Features

In general, quizzes help determine what students have learned. A well-designed test can give critical information about a student's understanding of the material.

Feedback about performance and self-assessment are important parts of a learning environment. There are several ways to give feedback to students: on each question or overall. The quiz module can display feedback and scores at different times during the quiz, using the review options.

A wide variety of Quiz reports (in addition to Grades) are available. Quiz reports not only can focus on a single student's attempt to answer each question, but also can perform a robust analysis of a question's validity based upon aggregated student responses.

Moodle’s quiz module has a large number of options and tools. For example, quizzes with different question types can be randomly generated from categories of questions. Students can be allowed repeated attempts at a question; they can also be allowed to retake a quiz multiple times.

There are different options for scoring (marks-grades) individual questions in a specific quiz, grading attempts for a quiz and each question type.

Further, different display methods can even make the same quiz appear different each time. This can be done by customizing the viewed format (by manually setting the page breaks) or by setting the number of questions per page. Questions can be shuffled in regards to presentation order. Yes, it can be made to look and act like a paper test.

When the computer does the work for you, it’s easy to give students a chance to practice taking a test, or to give frequent small quizzes. You can explore how to apply these advantages on the Effective quiz practices page.

Quiz module index page

The quiz module index page lists all the quiz activities in the course, organized under four headings:

Topic - the number of the block, in which the given quiz appears
Name - the name of the quiz
Quiz closes - the date after which the quiz will be closed
Attempts - if there have been any attempts at the quiz, you will see the text 'View reports for x attempts (y Students)', 'x' being the number of attempts and 'y' the number of students attempting at the quiz. Otherwise, the field will be empty.

External links

Online Quizzes and Exams with Moodle - reflections by James Neill
Third-party quiz reports

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 {{Quizzes}}
-== Quizzes ==
+The '''Quiz''' [[Teacher_documentation#Activity_modules|activity]] module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of [[Question types]], including multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions are kept in the [[Question bank]] and can be re-used in multiple quizzes. Quizzes can be configured to allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers.
-The '''Quiz''' module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a variety of question types, among them multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions are kept in a categorised database and can be re-used within courses and between courses. Quizzes can allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers. This module includes grading facilities.
+== Features ==
+In general, quizzes help determine what students have learned. A well-designed test can give critical information about a student's understanding of the material.
-Feedback on performance is a critical part of a learning environment and assessment is one of the most important activities in education. As educators, we can’t tell what’s going on inside the heads of students, so we need a way for them to demonstrate what they understand and what they don’t. A well-designed test, even a multiple-choice test, can give you critical information about student performance. If the feedback is rapid enough, it can also be a critical tool for students to gauge their own performance and help them become more successful.
+Feedback about performance and self-assessment are important parts of a learning environment. There are several ways to give feedback to students: on each question or overall. The quiz module can display feedback and scores at different times during the quiz, using the review options.
-Moodle’s quiz module is one of the most complex pieces of the system. The community has added a large number of options and tools to the quiz engine, making it extremely flexible. You can create quizzes with different question types, randomly generated quizzes from pools of questions, allow students to have repeated attempts at a question or retake quizzes multiple times, and have the computer score it all.
+A wide variety of [[Quiz reports]] (in addition to [[Grades]]) are available. Quiz reports not only can focus on a single student's attempt to answer each question, but also can perform a robust analysis of a question's validity based upon aggregated student responses.
-These features open up a number of strategies which usually aren’t practical with paper based testing. It’s hard enough to score one batch of quizzes, and nearly impossible to score it 10 times for each student. When the computer does the work for you, it’s easy to give students a chance to practice taking a test, or to give frequent small quizzes. We explore how to apply these advantages on the page [[Effective quiz practices]].
+Moodle’s quiz module has a large number of options and tools. For example, quizzes with different question types can be randomly generated from [[Question bank|categories]] of questions. Students can be allowed repeated attempts at a question; they can also be allowed to retake a quiz multiple times.
-This is the page where you can see all the quiz activities in the course, organized under four headings:
+There are different options for [[Editing a quiz|scoring (marks-grades)]] individual questions in a specific quiz, [[Adding/updating_a_quiz#Grades_section|grading attempts]] for a quiz and each [[Question bank|question type]].
+Further, different [[Adding/updating_a_quiz#Display_section|display methods]] can even make the same quiz appear different each time. This can be done by customizing the [[Editing_a_quiz#Editing_question_order_in_a_quiz|viewed format]] (by manually setting the page breaks) or by setting the number of questions per page. Questions can be shuffled in regards to presentation order.  Yes, it can be made to look and act like a paper test.
+When the computer does the work for you, it’s easy to give students a chance to practice taking a test, or to give frequent small quizzes. You can explore how to apply these advantages on the [[Effective quiz practices]] page.
+== Quiz module index page ==
+The quiz module index page lists all the quiz activities in the course, organized under four headings:
 # '''Topic''' - the number of the block, in which the given quiz appears
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 # '''Attempts''' - if there have been any attempts at the quiz, you will see the text 'View reports for x attempts (y Students)', 'x' being the number of attempts and 'y' the number of students attempting at the quiz. Otherwise, the field will be empty.
-{{excerpted from Jason Cole}}
+== See also ==
-[[Category:Teacher]]
+*[[Using Moodle book]] Chapter 6: Quizzes
-[[Category:Quiz]]
+*[[:Category:Questions]]
+*[[Quiz tips and tricks]]
+*[[Lesson#Types_of_questions_available_within_a_lesson|Questions available in a Lesson]]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfGlV5WaZE8 Quiz in Moodle 2.0 video]
+== External links ==
+*[http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Jtneill/Teaching/Online_Quizzes_and_Exams_with_Moodle Online Quizzes and Exams with Moodle] - reflections by [[User:James Neill|James Neill]]
+*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&advanced=1&f_46=Quiz+Report&f_98=Third-Party Third-party quiz reports]
+[[Category:Modules]]
+[[es:Cuestionarios]]
+[[eu:Galdetegiak]]
+[[ja:小テストモジュール]]
+[[ru:Тест]]
+[[fr:Test]]
+[[pl:Quizy]]
+[[de:Test]]
+[[zh:測驗卷]]

Documentation

Quiz module: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 15:17, 1 December 2010

Contents

Features

Quiz module index page

See also

External links