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This page contains general instructions for viewing a completed quiz and taking a quiz. Teachers may use different quiz settings, so these instructions are general. | |||
== | ==Taking a Quiz== | ||
After clicking on a quiz name you will be taken to this quiz page that displays the quiz name and the quiz introduction. Usually the introduction will tell you more about the purpose of the quiz and how it will be assessed. If applicable the page will also show the quiz opening and closing dates and times. You will not be able to access the quiz questions until the opening time. You must make sure that you commit all your answers before the closing time. Late answers will not usually be marked. | After clicking on a quiz name you will be taken to this quiz page that displays the quiz name and the quiz introduction. Usually the introduction will tell you more about the purpose of the quiz and how it will be assessed. If applicable the page will also show the quiz opening and closing dates and times. You will not be able to access the quiz questions until the opening time. You must make sure that you commit all your answers before the closing time. Late answers will not usually be marked. | ||
==Retaking a Quiz== | |||
If you have already attempted the quiz you will see a table listing all your previous attempts together with the time you completed them and the marks and grades. Notice that there may be a difference between the "Marks" and "Grade" column. Your teacher may have wanted the grade for the quiz to be out of a certain number of points and the Grade column therefore will contain a rescaling of the Marks column to achieve this. | If you have already attempted the quiz you will see a table listing all your previous attempts together with the time you completed them and the marks and grades. Notice that there may be a difference between the "Marks" and "Grade" column. Your teacher may have wanted the grade for the quiz to be out of a certain number of points and the Grade column therefore will contain a rescaling of the Marks column to achieve this. | ||
==Continuing an uncompleted quiz== | |||
If you have an uncompleted attempt then you may continue this attempt, otherwise you may be able to start a new attempt. If there is no button for starting a new attempt then you have already exhausted the maximum number of attempts allowed for this quiz. | If you have an uncompleted attempt then you may continue this attempt, otherwise you may be able to start a new attempt. If there is no button for starting a new attempt then you have already exhausted the maximum number of attempts allowed for this quiz. | ||
== | ==Submitting and saving a quiz== | ||
There are 3 options to stop a quiz that the student will see at the bottom of a quiz page: | |||
# '''Save without submitting''' - which, as its name says, saves the answers without submitting them | |||
# '''Submit page''' (optional) - which submits only a given quiz page | |||
# '''Submit all and finish''' - which saves the whole quiz | |||
==Viewing a completed quiz== | |||
Your teacher may allow you to go back into a completed quiz to see the quiz pages, questions, your answers, the correct answer and the score you received on each question. The teacher can also see each student's quiz. | |||
Remember that in some quizzes, the answers and even the questions can appear in a different order for each student. Your #1 question can be the #5 question for another student. | |||
A Teacher can regrade a quiz after a student views it. This allows the Teacher to change the correct answer, or mark more than one answer as being correct. | |||
==See also== | |||
* [[Quiz preview]] for teachers reviewing a quiz | |||
[[Category:Teacher]] | [[Category:Teacher]] | ||
[[Category:Quiz]] | [[Category:Quiz]] | ||
Revision as of 14:02, 24 February 2008
Template:Quizzes This page contains general instructions for viewing a completed quiz and taking a quiz. Teachers may use different quiz settings, so these instructions are general.
Taking a Quiz
After clicking on a quiz name you will be taken to this quiz page that displays the quiz name and the quiz introduction. Usually the introduction will tell you more about the purpose of the quiz and how it will be assessed. If applicable the page will also show the quiz opening and closing dates and times. You will not be able to access the quiz questions until the opening time. You must make sure that you commit all your answers before the closing time. Late answers will not usually be marked.
Retaking a Quiz
If you have already attempted the quiz you will see a table listing all your previous attempts together with the time you completed them and the marks and grades. Notice that there may be a difference between the "Marks" and "Grade" column. Your teacher may have wanted the grade for the quiz to be out of a certain number of points and the Grade column therefore will contain a rescaling of the Marks column to achieve this.
Continuing an uncompleted quiz
If you have an uncompleted attempt then you may continue this attempt, otherwise you may be able to start a new attempt. If there is no button for starting a new attempt then you have already exhausted the maximum number of attempts allowed for this quiz.
Submitting and saving a quiz
There are 3 options to stop a quiz that the student will see at the bottom of a quiz page:
- Save without submitting - which, as its name says, saves the answers without submitting them
- Submit page (optional) - which submits only a given quiz page
- Submit all and finish - which saves the whole quiz
Viewing a completed quiz
Your teacher may allow you to go back into a completed quiz to see the quiz pages, questions, your answers, the correct answer and the score you received on each question. The teacher can also see each student's quiz.
Remember that in some quizzes, the answers and even the questions can appear in a different order for each student. Your #1 question can be the #5 question for another student.
A Teacher can regrade a quiz after a student views it. This allows the Teacher to change the correct answer, or mark more than one answer as being correct.
See also
- Quiz preview for teachers reviewing a quiz
