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:Please go for it!--[[User:Tim Hunt|Tim Hunt]] 20:43, 12 October 2012 (WST)
:Please go for it!--[[User:Tim Hunt|Tim Hunt]] 20:43, 12 October 2012 (WST)
==Pasting some stuff here for later consideration==
Just pasting some of the content from the quiz page here in case I want to add it back in again later
==The basic ideas of quiz-making==
The basic idea is in building a quiz is to add questions from the question bank, organize them by page and determine the value of each question. 
There are several ways to add questions.  From the editing quiz tab, the teacher can add question by using the "Question bank contents {Show)" link to find an existing question or use the "Add a question" button to create a new question that is automatically added to the question bank.
In the question bank you can create categories, which are similar to folders in your computer file system. You can use Categories to create a hierarchy for organising your questions. Depending upon permissions, you might have access to questions created for other courses by other teachers in the question bank.
You can use random questions so that different students get different questions, or so that one student gets different questions each time they attempt the quiz. When a student starts an attempt at the quiz, the random question will be replaced by an actual question, picked at random from a certain category in the question bank.
--[[User:Mary Cooch|Mary Cooch]] 19:28, 14 October 2012 (WST)
===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.

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Redrafting this page

Just wondered if anyone had any objections to my redrafting some of this page with newer screenshots?--Mary Cooch 06:19, 12 October 2012 (WST)

Sounds like a good thing to do! --Helen Foster 14:34, 12 October 2012 (WST)
Please go for it!--Tim Hunt 20:43, 12 October 2012 (WST)