Multiple Choice question type

Moodle provides you with a lot of flexibility when creating this common question type. As the teacher, you can create single answer and multiple answer questions, display pictures or sound in the question and/or even in the answer choices (by inserting html) and weight individual answers.

Multiple choice question types

There are two types of multiple choice questions - single answer and multiple answer.

Single-answer questions: These questions allow one and only one answer to be chosen by providing radio buttons next to the answers. You will specify non-negative marks for each answer, usually zero marks for wrong answers, maximum marks for correct answers and partial marks for partially correct answers.

Multiple-answer questions: These questions allow one or more answers to be chosen by providing check boxes next to the answers. Each answer may carry a positive or negative grade, so that choosing ALL the options will not necessarily result in good grade. If the total grade is negative then the total grade for this question will be zero.

Feedback can be associated either with specific answers, or with the question as a whole.

Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding a water molecule at 25°C?

A. It has a net electrical charge of zero. B. It is a dipole. C. It cannot simultaneously donating and accepting two hydrogen bonds. D. It is a good polar solvent. E. Its pH is 7.0.

Additional feedback

Template:Moodle 1.7Moodle 1.7 includes options for adding feedback for correct/partially correct/incorrect responses. This is particularly useful for multiple-response questions, where it is difficult to control what feedback students see just using the answer-specific feedback.

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Multiple Choice question type

Multiple choice question types

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