Quiz module
The Quiz activity module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types, among them multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions are kept in the Question bank and can be re-used in the course or other 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.
Features
Quizzes help figure out what students have learned.
Feedback about performance and self-assessment are important parts of a learning environment. There are several ways and levels to give feedback to students: on each question or overall. Feedback and scores can be displayed at different times using the quiz module's review options.
A wide variety of Quiz reports help the teacher go beyond the Grades. A well-designed test can give critical information about a student's understanding of the material. Quiz reports can focus on a single student's attempt to answer each question, or 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, making it extremely flexible. Quizzes with different question types can be randomly generated from categories of questions. Students can be allowed repeated attempts at a question. They can be allowed to retake quizzes multiple times.
There are different scoring options available for each type of quiz and each question type available in the Question bank.
In addition, different presentation methods can make even the same quiz appear different. Questions can be shuffled. The number of questions displayed per page can be set automatically. Page breaks can also be forced.
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, nearly impossible to score it 10 times for each student retest, or to regrade a quiz because of any number of reasons. 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 theEffective 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.
