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		<title>Essay question type</title>
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&lt;div&gt;{{Questions}}&lt;br /&gt;
The essay question type is intended for short answers of a paragraph or two, that one often finds on exams. For longer essays, [[Online text assignment]] or [[Upload a single file assignment]] are better choices.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Question set-up==&lt;br /&gt;
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#Choose a category&lt;br /&gt;
#Give the question a descriptive name - this allows you to identify it in the question bank.&lt;br /&gt;
#Enter the question in the &#039;question text&#039; field&lt;br /&gt;
#Select an image to display if you want to add a picture to the question. For the student, it appear immediately after the question text.&lt;br /&gt;
#Set the &#039;default question grade&#039; (i.e. the maximum number of marks for this question).&lt;br /&gt;
#&#039;&#039;Moodle 1.7+:&#039;&#039; Add &#039;General Feedback&#039; if required. This is text that appears to the student after he/she has answered the question. Note that this is effectively the same as the subsequent &#039;Feedback&#039; field. The only difference is that General Feedback always appears at the bottom of the question, even after the grade and teacher&#039;s comments have been added.&lt;br /&gt;
#Add feedback if required. This is text that appears to the student after he/she has answered the question. See &#039;General Feedback&#039; above if using Moodle 1.7 or higher.&lt;br /&gt;
#Click Save changes to add the question to the category.&lt;br /&gt;
#Make sure there is only one essay per page - the rich text editor will only appear for the first essay question on a page. &lt;br /&gt;
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==Question grading==&lt;br /&gt;
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The essay question will not be assigned a grade until it has been reviewed by a teacher and manually graded. Until that happens, the student&#039;s grade will be 0.&lt;br /&gt;
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To grade a student&#039;s answer in a quiz, use the &#039;&#039;manual grading&#039;&#039; tab on the [[Quiz_reports|Results]] section of the quiz. When manually grading an essay question, the grader is able to enter a custom comment in response to the essay and assign a score for the essay.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Essay questions in a Lesson==&lt;br /&gt;
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To grade lesson essay questions, first click on the name of the lesson in your course page. If there are essay questions to be graded, there will be a link saying &amp;quot;Grade essay questions&amp;quot;.  This link will open a screen showing how many ungraded essay questions there are. Ungraded essay questions will be in listed in red. Click the link for the essay you wish to grade.&lt;br /&gt;
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The essay grading screen shows the title of the question, the student&#039;s essay response, and a place you can write optional comments and give the essay a score. Click the Submit grade button to record your score and comments.  Graded questions will be displayed in green.  Repeat the process to finish grading. Click the &amp;quot;Email graded [http://www.essaywriter.co.uk/services.aspx essays]&amp;quot; link to email your responses to your students.&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
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*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=86768 Student adding an image to their answer] forum discussion&lt;br /&gt;
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[[ja:作文問題タイプ]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[fr:Question composition]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[ca:Tipus_de_pregunta_de_resposta_oberta]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[de:Freitext-Fragen]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[zh:申論題]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Jacqueline0101</name></author>
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