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Restrict access settings

2015-09-01T18:40:02Z

Worfds91: /* Grade */ Adding in clarification from https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=319082

{{Conditional activities}}
==Enabling the use of conditional activities==

To use conditional activities, the feature must be enabled by an administrator by checking the "Enable conditional access" box in ''Administration > Site administration > Advanced features''. A restrict access section will then appear for teachers on the Activity settings screen, with an 'Add restriction' button.

==Restricting access==

After clicking the 'Add restriction' button, a choice of conditions appears:

[[File:add restriction popup.png]]

Restriction can be based upon [[Activity completion]], date, grade, the group or grouping the students are in or [[Conditional user fields| user profile fields]]. The 'Restriction set' button also allows for more complex criteria requiring nested conditions.

===Activity completion===
See [[Activity completion]]
''Note that this button only appears if you have Activity completion enabled in your course.''

===Date===
Access can be restricted from or until a certain date and time.

===Grade===
You can specify a condition on any grade in the course: the full course grade, the grade for any activity, or a custom grade that you create manually. You can enter either a minimum value (at least percentage), a maximum value (less than percentage), both, or neither. The activity will only appear if the student has a value for the specified grade, and if it falls within any specified number range. You can add more than one grade condition. All conditions must be met in order for the activity to appear.

* The range numbers can be fractional (with up to five decimal places) if necessary.
* Be careful with the maximum value; if the maximum is 7, a student who scores exactly 7 will not see the activity. You could set it to 7.01 if you really wanted to include 7.
* If creating several different activities that appear according to grade ranges, use the same number for the maximum of one activity, and the minimum of the next. For example, you might create one activity with a maximum of 7 and another with a minimum of 7. The first would appear to everyone scoring between 0 and 6.99999, and the second would appear to everyone scoring 7.00000 to 10. This guarantees that everyone with a grade will see one or other.To remove a grade condition, set the assessment name to 'none' and remove the range number values
* If you want to use a condition for students with blank grades then you can add a grade restriction and select the activity you want to use as a restriction. Do not select a checkbox for either the greater than or less than criteria. This will require the student to have a grade. This means students with blank grades do not meet that criterion.

===Group and groupings===
If groups or groupings are used in the course, it is possible to restrict the activity to a certain group or grouping.

[[File:grouprestrict.png]]

'''NOTE''': This button only appears if you have groups '''enabled''' in your course.

===User profile===
See [[Conditional user fields]]
===Restriction set===
This allows you to add a set of complex restrictions to apply complex logic. See [[Using Conditional activities]] for an example.

==Hiding the conditions==
*If the eye is SHUT then students who do not meet that part of the condition will not see the activity at all.
*If the eye is OPEN the students who do not meet that part of the condition will see the activity but it will be greyed out and have information about why they can't access it yet.

The shut eye takes precedence. For example, you could have 2 conditions, one based on date (with eye shut) and one based on completing a previous activity (with eye open). That way, the activity will not appear at all until the date; then it will appear, but tell you that you need to complete the other activity; then when you complete the other activity you can access it.

For OR and NOT AND type conditions, you only get a single eye icon instead of one for each condition

[[File:daterestrict1.png]]

==ALL or ANY Conditions==
Further restrictions may be added by clicking the 'Add restriction' button again, and it is possible to specify that ALL the conditions or ANY of the conditions are required before the activity is made available. Thus, it is possible to use 'Or' as well as 'And' conditions. See [[Using Conditional activities]] for an example.

{|
|[[File:AND.png|thumb|400px|'and' condition]]
|[[File:OR.png|thumb|400px|'or' condition]]
|}

==Restricting access to course sections==

It is possible to restrict access to activities within a whole course section by specifying the conditions in the settings for that particular section.

==Site administration settings==
Administrators can disable selected restriction settings if desired from ''Site administration>Plugins>Availability restrictions>Manage restrictions''.

[[File:managerestrictions.png]]

==See also==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqO_96E9iBk&feature=share&list=PLxcO_MFWQBDcxGul-CY1SiOke6Jkg2NPK&index=4 Moodle HQ screencast demonstrating Conditional Activities including 'or' conditions]

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Quiz settings

2015-08-19T18:12:53Z

Worfds91: Clarifying the grading of "allow redo within an attempt"

{{Quiz}}
Creating a new quiz is a two-step process. In the first step, you create the quiz activity and set its options which specify the rules for interacting with the quiz. In the second step you add questions to the quiz.
This page describes the options you can set for the quiz activity. The page [[Building Quiz]] describes how to set up the questions for the quiz.

==Quiz administration==
When you first set up your quiz from ''Add an activity or resource > Quiz'', (or, if you don't have this link, the dropdown ''Add an activity>Quiz'') you will get the following settings, (which can also be changed later in the Edit Settings link of the Quiz administration settings block) All settings may expanded by clicking the "Expand all" link top right.

==General==
{|
|[[File:Quizgeneral.png|thumb|448px|General settings expanded by default]]
|}
;Name
:This is the standard name field. This name will appear on the home page of the course, navigation menu and other places which will show or provide links to this quiz.

;Description
:Describe the purpose of the glossary and provide instructions or background information, links etc. Click the icon top left to expand the toolbars, and drag the bottom right of the text box out to expand it.

;'''Display description on course page'''
:If ticked, the quiz description will appear on the course page directly under the quiz name.

==Timing==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quiztiming.png|thumb|452px|Timing settings expanded]]
|}

;Open the quiz
:You can specify times when the quiz is accessible for people to make attempts. Before the opening time the quiz will be unavailable to students. They will be able to view the quiz introduction but will not be able to view the questions. Quizzes with start times in the future diasplay both the open and close date for students.

Note: You can make the quiz available at different times for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block.

;Close the quiz
:After the closing time, the students will not be able to start new attempts. Answers that the student submits after the quiz closing date will be saved but they will not be marked.

: Even after the quiz has closed students will still be able to see the quiz description and review their attempts. What exactly they will see depends on the settings you choose for review options (see below).
;Time limit
:By default, quizzes do not have a time limit, which allows students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you do specify a time limit, several things are done to try and ensure that quizzes are completed within that time:
{|
|[[File:quiz timer.png|thumb|Navigation block showing quiz timer]]
|}

# A countdown timer is shown in the quiz navigation block
# When the timer has run out, the quiz is submitted automatically with whatever answers have been filled in so far
# If a student manages to cheat and goes over the allotted time, no marks are awarded for any answers entered after the time ran out

Note: You can make the quiz available last a different period of time for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block (see below).

Note: Setting a quiz time limit will not affect server load.

;When time expires..

There are three options as to what will happen when the time limit is up. Choose the one you need from the dropdown menu:
# Open attempts are submitted automatically (This is the default)
# There is a grace period when open attempts can be submitted, but no more questions answered
# Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not counted

If you select "''There is a grace period...''" then you can check the box to enable the "Submission grace period" and specify a period of time during which learners may still submit the quiz after the time is up.

===Examples of how timing is handled===

#A student starts a quiz at noon. The quiz has a one-hour time-limit, and a 1 hour delay between attempts. The student gets distracted, and so actually does not submit (using the overdue handling) until 1:30pm. ''They are allowed to start their second attempt at 2. pm''
#The quiz count-down timer submits a student's quiz attempt at the last second when time expires. Because the server is heavily loaded, it takes 30 seconds to process the student's attempt. ''The submission is accepted nonetheless.''
#Same situation as above but with a 120 second delay: ''The submission is rejected.''
#The delay is not because of server load but because the student found a way to cheat the timer. ''Moodle cannot know what causes a delay.The behaviour is controlled by the admin setting(quiz | graceperiodmin), 60 seconds by default.''
#A student is a member of 3 groups,all of which have different override settings. Which limits will apply to this student? ''If there is any user-specific override, then that is used, and the group overrides for that setting are not used at all. Otherwise, if there are multiple group overrides, the most generous values are used (the earliest open date, the latest close date, the longest time limit, the most number of attempts, and the student can type any of the passwords).''

==Grade==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizgradetopass.png|thumb|312px|Grade settings expanded]]
|}

;Grade category
If you have categories in your gradebook, select the one you wish the quiz to be in here.
;Attempts allowed
:Students may be allowed to have multiple attempts at a quiz. This can help make the process of taking the quiz more of an educational activity rather than simply an assessment. If the quiz is randomized then the student will get a new version for each attempt. This is useful for practice purposes.

Note: You can change the allowed number of attempts for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block.

;Grade to pass
Here you can set a passing grade for the quiz. This may be connected with [[Activity completion]] and [[Conditional activities]] such that a student will not be able to access a follow up activity until they have passed the quiz.

;Grading method
:When multiple attempts are allowed, there are different ways you can use the grades to calculate the student's final grade for the quiz.
* Highest grade - the final grade is the highest (best) grade in any attempt
* Average grade - the final grade is the average (simple mean) grade of all attempts
* First grade - the final grade is the grade earned on the first attempt (other attempts are ignored)
* Last grade - the final grade is the grade earned on the most recent attempt only

==Layout==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizlayout29.png|thumb|422px|Layout settings expanded]]
|}

;New page
:For longer quizzes it makes sense to stretch the quiz over several pages by limiting the number of questions per page. When adding questions to the quiz, page breaks will automatically be inserted according to the setting you choose here. However, you will also be able to move page breaks around by hand later on the editing page.
:'''Note that changing this setting has no effect on questions you have already added to the quiz'''. The setting will only apply to questions you add subsequently. To change the page breaks in an existing quiz, you need to go to the quiz editing screen, tick the 'Show page breaks' checkbox, then use the repaginate control.

;Navigation method (available by clicking ''Show More'')

By choosing ''Sequential'' instead of ''Free'', the teacher is forcing the student to progress through the questions in order without being able to go back to a previous question or skip to a later one.

==Question behaviour==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:redoquestion.png|thumb|447px|Question behaviour settings expanded]]
|}
;Shuffle within questions
:If set to 'yes', then each time the student takes a quiz the parts of the question will be shuffled randomly.

;How questions behave
:See [[Question behaviours]].

;Allow redo within an attempt (available by clicking "Show more")
{{New features}}
If using Interactive or Immediate feedback mode, enabling this setting means students can try a question again even if they have used up their allowed attempts. This is helpful if they wish to learn from the feedback given at the end of their attempts. They will be given a different question from the one they were working on previously if there are other questions available. A student's grade for that question slot is based on the most recent question they have started.

;Each attempt builds on the last (available by clicking "Show more")
:If multiple attempts are allowed and this setting is set to Yes, then each new attempt contains the results of the previous attempt. This allows the student on the new attempt to concentrate on just those questions that were answered incorrectly on the previous attempt. If this option is chosen then each attempt by a particular student uses the same questions in the same order, independent of randomization settings. To show a fresh quiz on every attempt, select No for this setting.

==Review options==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizreview.png|thumb|600px|Review options expanded]]
|}

This section controls what information students will be shown when they review their past attempts at the quiz, and during the attempt in adaptive mode. It is a matrix with check boxes.

The various pieces of information that can be controlled are:
; The attempt: Will show how the student responded to each question.
; Whether correct: Displays whether the students response to each question is correct or incorrect.
; Marks: Reveals the marks awarded to the student and the grade for the quiz.
; Specific feedback: Will show the feedback for the response to the answer as set when adding the question to the quiz. Each response to a question can have feedback for both correct and incorrect answers.
; General feedback: Displays the general feedback for the whole question as set when adding the question to the quiz. You can use the general feedback to give students some background to what knowledge the question was testing.
; Right answer: Reveals the correct answer to each question, whether the student answered correctly or not (See note below).
; Overall feedback: Displays feedback for the entire quiz as set in the quiz settings (See note below).

For each of the above items, you can determine the timeframe when the students will see them:
; During the attempt : is only available when ''‘How questions behave’'' has been set to ''‘Immediate feedback’'', ''‘Immediate feedback with CBM’'' and ''‘Interactive with multiple tries’''. If set to one of these options then a ''‘Check’'' button will appear below the answer and when clicked the student will submit that response and then receive immediate feedback.
; Immediately after the attempt : means within 2 minutes of the student clicking "submit all and finish".
; Later, while the quiz is still open : means after 2 minutes, but before the close date (if the quiz does not have a close date, this phase never ends).
; After the quiz is closed : means what it says (you never get here for quizzes without a close date).

:''Tip:'' Checking any of the boxes in the timeframe row, will reveal the test to the student. For example, to allow students to see their quiz immediately after taking it but not later, make sure none of the boxes in "Later" or "After" rows are checked. The student will be able to see their grade but not get into the quiz.

Note: Currently, the Answers display is a bit inconsistent between different question types. For example, the matching question type shows students which of their responses are correct, but does not tell them the right answer for the ones they got wrong. The short answer and multiple choices question types do tell the student what the correct answer is.

Users with the capability 'View hidden grades' [[Capabilities/moodle/grade:viewhidden|moodle/grade:viewhidden]] (typically teachers and administrators) are not affected by these settings and will always by able to review all information about a student's attempt at any time.

In your list of review options, you must have 'The attempt' (the first option in the lists) selected before you can enable the options to show 'Whether correct', 'Specific feedback', 'General feedback', and 'Right answer'. If you choose not to let the students review the attempt, your only options are to display 'Marks' and 'Overall feedback'.

==Appearance==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizappearance.png|thumb|470px|Display settings expanded]]
|}

:Show the user's picture
It is now possible, when displaying the user's profile picture for proctoring purposes, to choose whether a large image or thumbnail will be displayed.

;Decimal places in grades
:This option determines how many digits will be shown after the decimal separator (see [[dev:Translation_langconfig|langconfig]] ) when the grade is displayed. A setting of 0 for example means that the grades are displayed as integers. This setting is only used for the display of grades, not for the display or marking of answers.

==Extra restrictions on attempts==
(These settings are collapsed by default and are available by clicking "Show more")
{|
|[[File:quizextrarestrictions.png|thumb|470px|Extra restrictions settings expanded]]
|}

;Require password
:This field is optional.

:If you specify a password in here then participants must enter the same password before they are allowed to make an attempt on the quiz. This is useful to give only a selected group of students access to the quiz.

;Require network address
:This field is optional.

:You can restrict access for a quiz to particular subnets on the LAN or Internet by specifying a comma-separated list of partial or full IP address numbers. This is especially useful for a proctored (invigilated) quiz, where you want to be sure that only people in a certain room are able to access the quiz. For example: 192.168. , 231.54.211.0/20, 231.3.56.211

:There are three types of numbers you can use (you can not use text based domain names like example.com):

# Full IP addresses, such as 192.168.10.1 which will match a single computer (or proxy).
# Partial addresses, such as 192.168 which will match anything starting with those numbers.
# CIDR notation, such as 231.54.211.0/20 which allows you to specify more detailed subnets.

:Spaces are ignored.

;Enforced delay between attempts
:These two fields are optional.

:You can set a time (from seconds to weeks) between the first and second attempt of a quiz. You can also (or alternatively) set a time from seconds to weeks for subsequent attempts after the second attempt. Thus, you might allow a student to take the quiz twice immediately with no delay, but if they want to improve their score with a third attempt, they are forced to wait a week and use the time for extra revision.

;Browser security
:This is by default an advanced field, visible by clicking "Show advanced".
:The options in this section offer various ways to try to restrict how students may try to 'cheat' while attempting a quiz. However, this is not a simple issue, and what in one situation is considered 'cheating' may, in another situation, just be effective use of information technology. (For example, the ability to quickly find answers using a search engine.)

::Note also that this is not just at problem of technology with a technical solution. Cheating has been going on since long before computers, and while computers make certain actions, like copy and paste, easier, they also make it easier for teachers to detect cheating - for example using the quiz reports. The options provided here are not fool-proof, and while they do make some forms of cheating harder for students, they also make it more inconvenient for students to attempt the quizzes, and they are not fool-proof.

:'''Full screen pop-up with some JavaScript security'''

:There is a limit to what the quiz, which runs on a web server, can do to restrict what the student sitting at their computer can do while attempting the quiz. However, this option does what is possible:

:* The quiz will only start if the student has a JavaScript-enabled web-browser.
:* The quiz appears in a fullscreen popup window that covers all the other windows and has no course navigation controls.

{|
|[[File:seb24.png|thumb|465px|Student view of quiz question with full screen popup. (Click to see enlarged)]]
|}
:* The students are prevented, as far as is possible, from using facilities like copy and paste.

:'''Require the use of Safe Exam Browser'''

:This option will only appear if your administrator has enabled it in ''Settings > Site administration > Development > Experimental > Experimental settings''.

:[[Safe exam browser|Safe Exam Browser]] is a customised web browser that must be downloaded and installed on the computer that the student uses to attempt the quiz. It restricts student use more effectively than a pop up window option. Features include full screen, without web navigation options, shortcut keys including copy and paste are disabled and of course surfing the web during an exam.

==Overall feedback==
(These setttings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizoverallfeedback.png|thumb|448px|Overall feedback settings expanded]]
|}
Overall feedback is shown to a student after they have completed an attempt at the quiz. The text that is shown can depend on the grade the student got. Click "Show editing tools" to display the rich text editor, and drag the bottom right of the text box out to expand it.

For example, if you entered:

:Grade boundary: 100%
:Feedback: "Well done"
:Grade boundary: 40%
:Feedback: "Please study this week's work again"
:Grade boundary: 0%

Then students who score between 100% and 40% will see the "Well done" message, and those who score between 39.99% and 0% will see "Please study this week's work again". That is, the grade boundaries define ranges of grades, and each feedback string is displayed to scores within the appropriate range.

Grade boundaries can be specified either as a percentage, for example "31.41%", or as a number, for example "7". If your quiz is out of 10 marks, a grade boundary of 7 means 7/10 or better.

Note that the maximum and minimum grade boundaries (100% and 0%) are set automatically.

You can set as many or as few grade boundaries as you wish. The form allows you up to 5 ranges at first, but you can add more by clicking the "Add 3 fields to form" button underneath.

If you're getting confusing error messages about a boundary being out of sequence (when it's obviously *in* sequence), or "boundaries must be between 0% and 100%" (and they are) -- check that the Maximum Grade for this quiz is set to something greater than zero.
==Outcomes==
This setting will only appear if [[Outcomes]] have been enabled by the administrator and are used in the course. See [[Outcomes]] for how to remove an outcome once it has been added to a quiz.

==Common module settings==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
See [[Common module settings]]

==Restrict access/Activity completion==
(These settings are collapsed by default)

The Restrict access and Activity completion settings are visible if [[Conditional activities]] and [[Activity completion]] have been enabled in the site and the course.
===Quiz completion===

The following automatic activity completion conditions apply to the quiz:

:''Require view'' - the student clicks on the quiz to view it
:''Require grade'' - the student obtains a grade

[[File:quizpassinggrade.png|thumb|500px|center]]

:''Require a passing grade'' - a 'Grade to pass' is specified for the quiz in the gradebook.
:''All available attempts completed'' - a certain number of attempts were allowed on the quiz and the student has completed them all.

==Group and User overrides==

[[File:overridesquiz.png]]

Dates, timing and number of allowed attempts may be changed for individual users or groups by following the links ''Group Overrides'' or ''User Overrides'' in the Quiz Administration settings block.

===Group overrides===
To change a quiz setting for a particular group, click the "add group override" button in ''Quiz Administration>Group overrides'', make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

===User overrides===
To change a quiz setting for a particular user or users, click the "add user override"button in ''Quiz Administration>Group overrides'', make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

[[Image:groupuseroverride.png|groupuseroverride.png]]

==Site administration settings==

The quiz module has additional settings which may be changed by an administrator in ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Quiz''.

'''New in 2.9:''' Time period settings for a quiz (such as time limit, submission grace period, autosave period and so on) can be set here with a duration of seconds, minutes, hours, days or weeks. These defaults will then be used when new quizzes are created.

;Autosave period
:If enabled, student responses will be saved at regular period according to the selection here. the default is one minute. This is useful so that students don't lose work but does increase the load on the server.

How questions behave can be configured in ''Administration>Site administration>Plugins>Question behaviours>Manage question
behaviours''

==See also==
*[http://youtu.be/I87h6ijtjls The Moodle Quiz Activity] MoodleBites video on YouTube

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Using Choice

2015-05-30T23:22:45Z

Worfds91: /* Selecting groups */ Updating the link to ChoiceGroup plugin to the new plugin database.

{{Choice}}

==What the student sees==
*When a teacher has created a Choice activity, the student is presented with a number of radio buttons. They click one to make their selection.
*Depending on the teacher's settings, the student may then be able to see the results either anonymously or with names (via the "View xxx responses" link) or not see anything.
[[image:Studentchoiceview.png]]

==What the teacher sees==
*Regardless of how it's been set for students, a teacher will always see user names and choices, via the "View xxx responses" link.
*The teacher is also able to delete selected choices or download them in various formats as in the screenshot below:
[[File:Choiceresponses.png]]

==Some ways to use Choice==
===Thinking about existing knowledge===
Pedagogically, the choice activity can be used to provide an opportunity to share starting points through which learners are encouraged to think about and articulate existing knowledge and understandings of a topic. For example, you can ask students to make ‘choices’ about a statement such as “in learning to become a teacher, the most significant issue for me is” (giving the following choices): trust, theoretical underpinnings, communication or delivering materials to students.

This has two benefits: firstly, it forces participants to engage with their choice and think, in advance of a further related activity (you might wish to follow up such a choice activity with a forum discussion or a reflective activity like the online text assignment), about the context and consequences of this choice. Secondly, it allows tutors and students to gain a better understanding of existing views/understandings/knowledge related to the question, idea or concept at hand in the Choice activity.

===Assessing understanding===

For younger students, the choice activity is a secure way to gauge their understanding of a topic without asking them in public: with a question such as "how well did you understand this module?" students can honestly select from "very well", "OK" or "I stil don't get it", safe in the knowledge only their teacher knows their response and they will not be shamed in front of their peers.

The choice activity in Moodle only allows a participant to select one choice from a variety of options (that you provide), but you may set the activity so that participants can change their choices - thus, as students make progress and gain confidence, they might want to update their choice to reflect this. You can also set the activity so that it ‘closes’ or ‘locks down’ on a specific date, making all choices final from that point on. This allows participants to change their minds several times before a final
date.

===Selecting groups===

Using the choice activity is one way of getting students to put themselves into groups. However in its standard form, it does not add them to the gradebook as a group. There is a contributed module that does this here: [https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_choicegroup Choicegroup]

==Examples of using choice==

The following examples are mostly taken from a Using Moodle forum discussion [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=145882 Creative Uses?].

===Gather pre-event comments===
*A simple question to answer, to kick start - the beginning of a lesson.
*Gather initial comments, reasons for taking course, participating in event

===Bus & roommate, menu choices===
Every spring, our school sends 180 students and our fine arts faculty to a 3 or 4 day event. Students invited to participate are enrolled in a Moodle course for the event.

We use the new forum to communicate with students. The forum is open to anyone, so parents can read it, too.

We use the choice module to gather the initial commitment from students to attend, and then later their their bus choices and hotel roommates. In years that the bus rides are long enough, students pre-select boxed meals.

I modified the Choice module to allow me to easily make selections for students who do not respond in a timely manner.

We also use the feedback module to gather student cell phone numbers, a list of events that each student will attend, and t-shirt requests.

I wrote a PHP program to gather all of this info and create an Excel file with all of the info in various arrangements.

===Memo tracking ===
I have made some minor changes to the Choice code (only requiring one "choice") so that we in the Business world can use the Choice module for Memo tracking.

Each Memo is a new Choice, the memo is entered, and the choice is "I have read and understand this memo". Then our Managers can track who has or has not read the memo, and follow up with those who have not read them.

===Feedback from students about course or activity===

A question left unanswered from a lesson - that needs an answer. Now home study.
As feedback about a lesson, as assessment for learning.

===Polling tool===
As they are so fast to set up - they can even be used as a polling tool, although there are other tools out there. A colleague used them for student voice polling.

===Registrar and Administration uses===
Currently Moodle Choices is offering a far greater contribution to our admin functions than our teaching.(remember not to use groups in this function)

Elective courses: students are given a list of choices that they can choose from.

===Sign up for an activity===
Sign up for a specific activity eg Rosetta Stone, cycle rental - Students self-enrol to a moodle coursepage then click to say 'please sign me up' - we use choices in order to set course limits

===Student confirm pathways===
Choice of degree specialism - students are away on stage, and change their mind frequently, so we set a choices activity with the pathways and instead of emailing us every time they change their minds, they indicate the change on choices, which are left open.

===Use with podcasts and videos===
Include podcasts or videos as well as images in the choice activity.

===Elections===
It is possible to run student union elections using choice module.

== See also ==

[http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/choice/view.php?id=170 Working example of a choice activity from School demo site.] Log in with username "student" and password "moodle"

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkelQDKbtM Choice module video](older version of Moodle)

Using Moodle forum discussions:
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=43536 Have Your Students "Sign" an Agreement]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=145882 Creative Uses?]

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Quiz FAQ

2015-02-25T20:08:08Z

Worfds91: Copying over a new question on forcing students to answer questions that Tim added to the 2.7 page but not the 2.8 page

{{Quiz}}

==How can I randomly generate a quiz from a larger question bank?==
See the section on adding random questions in [[Building Quiz]].

==How can I force my students to answer all the question in a quiz before they submit?==

There are various ways to answer this:
# You can't.
# Your student's are not stupid. They know they will get zero marks for any question they do not answer, so they already have a strong incentive to answer every question. Furthermore, at the end of the quiz there is the summary page where they can easily check that they have answered all the questions before they submit, so they won't accidentally miss questions.
# OK, so you want us to write code that won't let students submit before they have answered each question. Well, all that does is forces the student to put random junk like "asdf" into each question before they click the button, or randomly make a choice in each multiple choice question. There is no educational benefit in this. You get more meaningful information if students leave those questions blank rather than putting in random responses.

==Can I have different start times/timings/numbers of attempts for different groups?==
*In the Quiz administration settings block, there is a link "group override".
*Click this link and you will be able to select your groups and change the quiz dates, times and number of attempts:

[[File:quizgroupoverride.png]]

==What happens if students submit answers after the quiz closing date?==
It is possible for students to still submit answers after the quiz has closed (for example if they started the attempt before the closing date but then took a long time before submitting). These responses are stored by the quiz module, but the students are not given any credit for them. The teacher can see these answers when reviewing the student's attempts and can give the student credit for them by hand. Also the teacher could change the closing date after the fact and regrade the attempts. The students answers would then get graded.

==Is there a nice way to print a copy of a quiz?==

Not at the moment.

* See this tracker request: [https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-348 Printer-friendly (more compact) layout option for quiz]
* The [http://www.academic-moodle-cooperation.org Academic Moodle Cooperation] of the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology have contributed the [[mod/offlinequiz/mod| Offline quiz activity]] for Moodle 2.6, available from the [https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_offlinequiz Moodle plugins database] (Moodle 2.2 and 2.5 versions are available via Github, and a 2.8 version will probably appear soon). This MC Offline quiz module (mod/offlinequiz) adds paper-and-pencil multiple-choice quizzes to Moodle. In offline quizzes students mark answers to questions on a sheet of paper (the answer form).
* See [https://github.com/bumoodle/moodle-quiz_papercopy https://github.com/bumoodle/moodle-quiz_papercopy] - Paper Copy quiz report for Moodle - allows an instructor to create and grade printable copies of Moodle Quizzes
* Eoin Campbell has a plugin that may be usefull here: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=qformat_htmltable
* See this [https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=qformat_wordtable Word table format plugin] for exporting questions (including images) in a question bank into a Word file
* Also this discussion, where there is an unlikely hack: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=222565
* Some CSS suggestions here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=205969#p899667
* Also note the comments [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Effective_quiz_practices#Printing_and_sharing_questions here], [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=219532 here], [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=181486 here], [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=90791 here] and [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=222565 here]

==Why am I no longer allowed to add or remove questions?==
Most likely it is because you have students that have already attempted the quiz. You will need to delete all of the attempts by selecting them and choosing to delete them if you need to add/remove questions from a quiz.

If you are developing a new quiz where the attempts have just been trials then deleting the previous attempts will have no consequeces in the grade book.

If this is not the case think carefully about how to handle the graded attempts.

There are several ways of getting to the “attempts #” which you need to click on to delete the previous attempts. Use which ever works for you.
#Click on the quiz that you want to amend. It will take you to a page with “attempts #" at the top.
#If you are on a page with this message “You cannot add or remove questions because the quiz has been attempted (attempts #)” Click on "attempts #".
#If you have navigated away from the page with the message go to the Settings block > Quiz Administration > Edit Quiz.
Whichever way you find “attempts #” click on it and you will go to a page with a drop down menu at the top. Select “all users who have attempted the quiz”. There are several other click boxes select whatever applies to your situation.
Click “Show Report” and then “select all”. Click “Delete selected attempts” and confirm selection.

Go back to Quiz Administration > Edit Quiz and you will now be able to add or delete questions.

==How can I turn off glossary auto-linking in a quiz? ==
*In the Quiz administration settings block there will be a link "filter".
*Click the link and you will have the option to disable filters just for that particular quiz:

[[File:quizfilter.png]]

==How can I remove a problem question after the quiz has been taken?==

You can not remove a question once a quiz has been taken by one student or more. However you can change the score and flag the question so you know it has problems.

Set the score for that question to 0.
*Caution: In some versions of Moodle if you use this question in an other quiz, this will potentially change the question in that quiz as well. A trick is to score the question as 0, then regrade the just completed quiz. This will establish the new grade for gradebook. Now go back and change the score to the original value.

Find the question in Question Bank. Maybe edit the title (Do not use in Bio101). Or if you do not share the question category with other teachers, create a sub category, move the offending question there, and perhaps create a better question to replace the one you just moved. Create a new quiz and if necessary hide the old one.
*Caution: if other departments or teachers use a question category it might be wise to check with the team before moving or changing any question. This is one reason importing questions in a course is a good best practice in some situations.

==Can I have a quiz that is not graded?==

This is not a common requirement, so it may not work perfectly, but you can get close:

# On the quiz editing page, set the score for each question, and the total score for the quiz to 0.
# On the quiz settings page, there is a grid of check-boxes. Turn off all the ones in the score column.

==Why is my quiz not displaying in the gradebook?==
*Check that you have a maximum score that is more than 0 - if your score is 0, then the quiz will not appear in the gradebook.

Remember you can tell gradebook not to include the quiz.

==How do I allow a person to retake a quiz if I have it set for 1 attempt?==
*In the Quiz administration settings block, there is a link "user overrides".
*Click this link and you can change the allowed number of attempts for that user.
[[File:quizuseroverride.png]]

==How can I give particular students extra time in a timed quiz?==
*In the Quiz administration settings block there is a link "user overrides"
*Click this link and you will be able to choose one or more users and change the timing of their quiz

[[File:quizuseroverride.png]]

==I've entered quiz grades manually in the gradebook. How can I allow students to improve on these grades?==

When a grade is entered directly in the gradebook, an "overridden" flag is set, meaning that the grade can no longer be changed from within the quiz.

However, the flag can be removed by turning editing on in the [[Grader report|grader report]], then clicking the [[Grade editing|edit grade]] icon, unchecking the overridden box and saving the changes.

==How can I enable notification of quiz submissions?==

See [[Quiz submission notification]].

==Why can't people (guests) take a quiz without creating an account and logging in?==

This is difficult to implement for technical reasons.

To explain: The quiz has to link all information about an attempt to a particular 'user' record in the database, and each user can only have one open quiz attempt at a time. All not-logged-in users share the same 'guest' user database record. Therefore, two guests could not attempt the quiz at the same time, and even if they could, it would be difficult to prevent one guest seeing another guest's attempts.

Of course, given enough work, it would be possible to change some of those assumptions, and so make it possible for guests to attempt quizzes. Indeed, some of the obstructions to implementing this have already been removed while doing other work on the quiz, but there is still some way to go.

If you would like to see this implemented, please vote for MDL-17892.

A workaround is to create a visitor account, say with username = password = visitor, for everyone to share.

==Can you explain the error The number of random questions required is more than are still available in the category!==

Review your quiz and verify Moodle has enough questions from each category of questions it will be pulling from. You may have inadvertently selected more questions than what exists in the category. Also make sure you're not pulling questions from a category that has zero questions. Because you are picking random questions, rather than a specific question, it may not be apparent at first that you have run out of questions to ask!

==How do I send a bulk message to all students who haven't completed a quiz?==
*From your navigation block, click ''Reports>Course participation''
*From the drop down, choose your quiz.
*In ''Show only'', choose "Student" and in ''Actions'', choose "post"
*In the list that appears, tick/check the boxes next to those you wish to message.
*In the bottom dropdown ''With selected users'', choose "send message"

[[File:quizemail.png]]

==Can I download the quiz questions in a non-Moodle format?==
You might want to keep a local copy of quiz questions as evidence. While Moodle doesn't offer a built-in method of doing this, suggestions include:
#previewing the quiz, getting to the review page and from your computer, choosing "Save as...webpage complete" and
#exporting the question as Moodle XML, or GIFT format. If you open either of those files in a text-editor, you should be able to see most details of each question. Not very pretty, but accurate.

==How can I turn off question flagging?==
By default, flags are available in quiz questions.

[[File:flag.png]]

There is a capablity attached to this: [[Capabilities/moodle/question:flag]]. Remove this capability from roles that you don't want to see the flags. You can either do that by editing the role definitions globally, or by overriding the permissions in just one quiz or course.

==How do I create system-wide question categories?==
* As an administrator or user with system permissions, go to ''Question bank>categories'' in any course.
*Using the "Add category form" at the bottom of the page, set the parent of the new category to be the system context.

==How can I prevent a student from reviewing or jumping around questions in a quiz?==
You can block the quiz navigation block and the summary of quiz page with CSS code in a theme. However, if a student fails to answer a question, they will not know if you implement this "solution". Also if others on the site do not want this patch, make sure the theme you select for the course is not used by others.

For example using the Afterburner theme: Site Administration >Appearance >Themes >Afterburner and enter this in the CSS code area:

:div#mod_quiz_navblock {visibility:hidden;}
:table.quizsummaryofattempt {visibility:hidden;}

There are other css solutions.

==How can I minimise the load on the server while using quizzes?==
*Try to avoid a lot of students starting a quiz at the same time
*Check these discussions:
**https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=213259
**https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=215641
**https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=215130

For other notes on performance with quizzes, see the section 'Performance of different Moodle modules' in [[Performance recommendations]].
==How can I make the quiz timer "float" or move down the page?==
See this forum thread: [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=210049 How to make the quiz timer float] for one suggestion.

==Why are images not included when exporting quiz questions?==
Images are only included if you export the questions using Moodle XML format. For all other question export formats (including GIFT), you will get broken images. Please see forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=244615 Students not able to see images in exported quiz questions]

==Why does the quiz timer keep counting down when the student is not looking at the quiz?==
It is not possible to stop the timer and start it again. Moodle cannot tell the difference between legitimate reasons for doing this (such as a fire alarm requiring evacuation of the test room) or a student simply using time going to another browser and googling the answers. Nor can Moodle tell if the connection has been lost, although the student does now get a warning MDL-42504

It might be preferable in certain circumstances, such as timed examinations using Quiz, to manually announce the start/end time, rather then rely on the quiz timer.

For further comments see:
* https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=96194
* https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=177180
* https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=237847

==How can a "Never submitted quiz" be submitted?==
Currently there is no way to retrieve an attempt that was "Never Submitted", and get it back into the "In progress" state, but there is a tracker issue MDL-35745. Perhaps the best solution is to plan ahead and set your quiz to set your quiz to be submitted automatically. Failing that, see also this [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=212819 forum thread] which suggests:
# Update the quiz : set the "close the quiz" date after today
# Set "When time expires" to "There is a grace period ..."
#Under Grade set "Attempts allowed" to "unlimited"
#Question behavior: Each attempt builds on the last "Yes"
# Invite the students who did not close their exams
# Allow them to start a new attempt, and close it immediately.

==How can I hide the number of marks available for each question?==

This is not really possible unless you are prepared to edit the code.

If you have a custom theme, you can add CSS like this:
<code css>
.que .info .grade { display: none; }
</code>
or you could try to make it more specific, and only hide the grade before the question is answered:
<code css>
.que.answersaved .info .grade,
.que.invalidanswer .info .grade,
.que.notyetanswered .info .grade { display: none; }
</code>
You can also add this CSS using the [[Header_and_footer|Additional HTML admin setting]].

Alternatively, you can alter the PHP code here: https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/4de51c25ae227a727dcba7c39f6f644a5d47ce7a/mod/quiz/locallib.php#L1820. Change that line to give the behaviour you want, e.g.
<code php>
$options->marks = self::extract($quiz->reviewmarks, $when,
self::MARK_AND_MAX, self::HIDDEN);
</code>

Be warned that any of these approaches will affect every quiz in the Moodle site.

==How can a teacher dry run a quiz before it is released?==
* You have prepared a quiz exam for your students. It is currently in a hidden state.
* The exam opens on the day of the exam, at a time that the students know about.
* However, to satisfy yourself that it is doable in the time allotted, You wish to do a dry run yourself before that date.
* How can You accomplish this?

===Method 1===
You can use the Preview feature available to you as a teacher as you are making the quiz.

===Method 2===
* Make a dummy account with a name like "Test Student".
* Enrol that user in the course as a student.
* Add a "User override" to the quiz, so "Test Student" can attempt the quiz before it is open to everyone else.
* Log in as "Test student".
* Attempt the quiz.
* Log back in as teacher.
* Review the attempt.
* Go to Results -> Grades and delete the test attempt.
* Un-enrol "Test Student" from your course.

===Method 3===
* Set up a Moodle Playground course for your teachers.
* Add teachers with dual role (teacher and student).
* This provides them a place to test things out.
* Teachers can later copy the quiz/assignment/whatever over to their live class.

==How can I prevent a student doing a quiz for another student?==
For some ideas on preventing cheating, see the forum thread [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=271100#p1168345 User dependent locking and unlocking of quizzes].

==How can I set a grade to pass?==

See the section 'Setting a grade to pass for a quiz' in [[Activity completion settings]] for details.

==See also==
* [[Quiz Time Limit]]

Using Moodle forum discussions:

*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=96326 Removing "Submit all and Finish" button]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=141003 How do you keep people from cheating while taking a quiz?]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=131325 Scientific notation in quiz answers]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158846 Quiz answers appear in wrong language]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=196206 Random Order Override]

Related FAQs:
* [[Import and export FAQ]] - for hints on importing questions
* [[XML FAQ]] - for information on creating and importing questions in Moodle XML format

==External links==
* [http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/cheating.htm Who is Cheating Whom] article

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{{Activity completion}}
==What happens when completion conditions are unlocked?==

Once you unlock options and then click 'Save changes', all completion information for the activity will be deleted and, if possible, regenerated according to the new settings. See the section 'What happens when you unlock' in [[Activity completion settings]] for further details.

==Activity completion status does not change==
Has [[Cron]] been run on the server side? Activity completion default is to be trigger by a cron event at a regular interval. The default is 10 minutes.

:Why so long a gap? My students want instant gratification and positive reinforcement they have taken another step! The update on a site can take time and resources of the server because it looks at every course, every activity, every user.

==How do I change the default time to refresh course completion reports==
Want to change the default time? This will require a code tweak at line 126 or so in the /lib/completionlib.php file. Make sure the server is sending a cron message to Moodle every 10 minutes or more often. If the server is sending a cron trigger to Moodle every 60 minutes, that will be the length of time which will pass before the change will appear.

==Can I move the activity completion checkboxes to the left instead of the right?==
[[File:checkboxleft.png]]

Please see MDL-34729 and MDL-31603

This is a not-fully tested solution, based on adapting Christian Herman's tip from Moodle 2.0 to 2.5 and discussion in https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=263661
If you are using Clean or More theme, add the following to the Custom CSS box in ''Appearance>Themes>Clean' (or More)

<code css>/* Completion Checkbox Left of Activity Icon and Align Checkboxes Full Left */
.section .activity .actions { position: relative; }

.path-course-view li.activity span.autocompletion, .path-course-view li.activity form.togglecompletion
{ float: left; margin-left: -15px;}

/* Small Space Between Checkbox & Icon */
.path-course-view .section .activity img.activityicon
{ padding-left: 1em; }</code>

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{{Activity completion}}
==What happens when completion conditions are unlocked?==

Once you unlock options and then click 'Save changes', all completion information for the activity will be deleted and, if possible, regenerated according to the new settings. See the section 'What happens when you unlock' in [[Activity completion settings]] for further details.

==Activity completion status does not change==
Has [[Cron]] been run on the server side? Activity completion default is to be trigger by a cron event at a regular interval. The default is 10 minutes.

:Why so long a gap? My students want instant gratification and positive reinforcement they have taken another step! The update on a site can take time and resources of the server because it looks at every course, every activity, every user.

==How do I change the default time to refresh course completion reports==
Want to change the default time? This will require a code tweak at line 126 or so in the /lib/completionlib.php file. Make sure the server is sending a cron message to Moodle every 10 minutes or more often. If the server is sending a cron trigger to Moodle every 60 minutes, that will be the length of time which will pass before the change will appear.

==Can I move the activity completion checkboxes to the left instead of the right?==
[[File:checkboxleft.png]]

Please see MDL-34729 and MDL-31603

This is a not-fully tested solution, based on adapting Christian Herman's tip from Moodle 2.0 to 2.5 and discussion in https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=263661
If you are using Clean or More theme, add the following to the Custom CSS box in ''Appearance>Themes>Clean' (or More)

/* Completion Checkbox Left of Activity Icon and Align Checkboxes Full Left */
.section .activity .actions { position: relative; }

.path-course-view li.activity span.autocompletion, .path-course-view li.activity form.togglecompletion
{ float: left; margin-left: -15px;}

/* Small Space Between Checkbox & Icon */
.path-course-view .section .activity img.activityicon
{ padding-left: 1em; }

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{{Quiz}}

==How can I randomly generate a quiz from a larger question bank?==
See the section on adding random questions in [[Building Quiz]].

==Can I have different start times/timings/numbers of attempts for different groups?==
*In the Quiz administration settings block, there is a link "group override".
*Click this link and you will be able to select your groups and change the quiz dates, times and number of attempts:

[[File:quizgroupoverride.png]]

==What happens if students submit answers after the quiz closing date?==
It is possible for students to still submit answers after the quiz has closed (for example if they started the attempt before the closing date but then took a long time before submitting). These responses are stored by the quiz module, but the students are not given any credit for them. The teacher can see these answers when reviewing the student's attempts and can give the student credit for them by hand. Also the teacher could change the closing date after the fact and regrade the attempts. The students answers would then get graded.

==Is there a nice way to print a copy of a quiz?==

Not at the moment.

* See this tracker request: [https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-348 Printer-friendly (more compact) layout option for quiz]
* The [http://www.academic-moodle-cooperation.org Academic Moodle Cooperation] of the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology have contributed the [[mod/offlinequiz/mod| Offline quiz activity]] for Moodle 2.6, available from the [https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_offlinequiz Moodle plugins database] (Moodle 2.2 and 2.5 versions are available via Github, and a 2.8 version will probably appear soon). This MC Offline quiz module (mod/offlinequiz) adds paper-and-pencil multiple-choice quizzes to Moodle. In offline quizzes students mark answers to questions on a sheet of paper (the answer form).
* See [https://github.com/bumoodle/moodle-quiz_papercopy https://github.com/bumoodle/moodle-quiz_papercopy] - Paper Copy quiz report for Moodle - allows an instructor to create and grade printable copies of Moodle Quizzes
* Eoin Campbell has a plugin that may be usefull here: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=qformat_htmltable
* See this [https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=qformat_wordtable Word table format plugin] for exporting questions (including images) in a question bank into a Word file
* Also this discussion, where there is an unlikely hack: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=222565
* Some CSS suggestions here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=205969#p899667
* Also note the comments [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Effective_quiz_practices#Printing_and_sharing_questions here], [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=219532 here], [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=181486 here], [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=90791 here] and [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=222565 here]

==Why am I no longer allowed to add or remove questions?==
Most likely it is because you have students that have already attempted the quiz. You will need to delete all of the attempts by selecting them and choosing to delete them if you need to add/remove questions from a quiz.

If you are developing a new quiz where the attempts have just been trials then deleting the previous attempts will have no consequeces in the grade book.

If this is not the case think carefully about how to handle the graded attempts.

There are several ways of getting to the “attempts #” which you need to click on to delete the previous attempts. Use which ever works for you.
#Click on the quiz that you want to amend. It will take you to a page with “attempts #" at the top.
#If you are on a page with this message “You cannot add or remove questions because the quiz has been attempted (attempts #)” Click on "attempts #".
#If you have navigated away from the page with the message go to the Settings block > Quiz Administration > Edit Quiz.
Whichever way you find “attempts #” click on it and you will go to a page with a drop down menu at the top. Select “all users who have attempted the quiz”. There are several other click boxes select whatever applies to your situation.
Click “Show Report” and then “select all”. Click “Delete selected attempts” and confirm selection.

Go back to Quiz Administration > Edit Quiz and you will now be able to add or delete questions.

==How can I turn off glossary auto-linking in a quiz? ==
*In the Quiz administration settings block there will be a link "filter".
*Click the link and you will have the option to disable filters just for that particular quiz:

[[File:quizfilter.png]]

==How can I remove a problem question after the quiz has been taken?==

You can not remove a question once a quiz has been taken by one student or more. However you can change the score and flag the question so you know it has problems.

Set the score for that question to 0.
*Caution: In some versions of Moodle if you use this question in an other quiz, this will potentially change the question in that quiz as well. A trick is to score the question as 0, then regrade the just completed quiz. This will establish the new grade for gradebook. Now go back and change the score to the original value.

Find the question in Question Bank. Maybe edit the title (Do not use in Bio101). Or if you do not share the question category with other teachers, create a sub category, move the offending question there, and perhaps create a better question to replace the one you just moved. Create a new quiz and if necessary hide the old one.
*Caution: if other departments or teachers use a question category it might be wise to check with the team before moving or changing any question. This is one reason importing questions in a course is a good best practice in some situations.

==Can I have a quiz that is not graded?==

This is not a common requirement, so it may not work perfectly, but you can get close:

# On the quiz editing page, set the score for each question, and the total score for the quiz to 0.
# On the quiz settings page, there is a grid of check-boxes. Turn off all the ones in the score column.

==Why is my quiz not displaying in the gradebook?==
*Check that you have a maximum score that is more than 0 - if your score is 0, then the quiz will not appear in the gradebook.

Remember you can tell gradebook not to include the quiz.

==How do I allow a person to retake a quiz if I have it set for 1 attempt?==
*In the Quiz administration settings block, there is a link "user overrides".
*Click this link and you can change the allowed number of attempts for that user.
[[File:quizuseroverride.png]]

==How can I give particular students extra time in a timed quiz?==
*In the Quiz administration settings block there is a link "user overrides"
*Click this link and you will be able to choose one or more users and change the timing of their quiz

[[File:quizuseroverride.png]]

==I've entered quiz grades manually in the gradebook. How can I allow students to improve on these grades?==

When a grade is entered directly in the gradebook, an "overridden" flag is set, meaning that the grade can no longer be changed from within the quiz.

However, the flag can be removed by turning editing on in the [[Grader report|grader report]], then clicking the [[Grade editing|edit grade]] icon, unchecking the overridden box and saving the changes.

==How can I enable notification of quiz submissions?==

See [[Quiz submission notification]].

==Why can't people (guests) take a quiz without creating an account and logging in?==

This is difficult to implement for technical reasons.

To explain: The quiz has to link all information about an attempt to a particular 'user' record in the database, and each user can only have one open quiz attempt at a time. All not-logged-in users share the same 'guest' user database record. Therefore, two guests could not attempt the quiz at the same time, and even if they could, it would be difficult to prevent one guest seeing another guest's attempts.

Of course, given enough work, it would be possible to change some of those assumptions, and so make it possible for guests to attempt quizzes. Indeed, some of the obstructions to implementing this have already been removed while doing other work on the quiz, but there is still some way to go.

If you would like to see this implemented, please vote for MDL-17892.

A workaround is to create a visitor account, say with username = password = visitor, for everyone to share.

==Can you explain the error The number of random questions required is more than are still available in the category!==

Review your quiz and verify Moodle has enough questions from each category of questions it will be pulling from. You may have inadvertently selected more questions than what exists in the category. Also make sure you're not pulling questions from a category that has zero questions. Because you are picking random questions, rather than a specific question, it may not be apparent at first that you have run out of questions to ask!

==How do I send a bulk message to all students who haven't completed a quiz?==
*From your navigation block, click ''Reports>Course participation''
*From the drop down, choose your quiz.
*In ''Show only'', choose "Student" and in ''Actions'', choose "post"
*In the list that appears, tick/check the boxes next to those you wish to message.
*In the bottom dropdown ''With selected users'', choose "send message"

[[File:quizemail.png]]

==Can I download the quiz questions in a non-Moodle format?==
You might want to keep a local copy of quiz questions as evidence. While Moodle doesn't offer a built-in method of doing this, suggestions include:
#previewing the quiz, getting to the review page and from your computer, choosing "Save as...webpage complete" and
#exporting the question as Moodle XML, or GIFT format. If you open either of those files in a text-editor, you should be able to see most details of each question. Not very pretty, but accurate.

==How can I turn off question flagging?==
By default, flags are available in quiz questions.

[[File:flag.png]]

There is a capablity attached to this: [[Capabilities/moodle/question:flag]]. Remove this capability from roles that you don't want to see the flags. You can either do that by editing the role definitions globally, or by overriding the permissions in just one quiz or course.

==How do I create system-wide question categories?==
* As an administrator or user with system permissions, go to ''Question bank>categories'' in any course.
*Using the "Add category form" at the bottom of the page, set the parent of the new category to be the system context.

==How can I prevent a student from reviewing or jumping around questions in a quiz?==
You can block the quiz navigation block and the summary of quiz page with CSS code in a theme. However, if a student fails to answer a question, they will not know if you implement this "solution". Also if others on the site do not want this patch, make sure the theme you select for the course is not used by others.

For example using the Afterburner theme: Site Administration >Appearance >Themes >Afterburner and enter this in the CSS code area:

:div#mod_quiz_navblock {visibility:hidden;}
:table.quizsummaryofattempt {visibility:hidden;}

There are other css solutions.

==How can I minimise the load on the server while using quizzes?==
*Try to avoid a lot of students starting a quiz at the same time
*Check these discussions:
**https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=213259
**https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=215641
**https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=215130

For other notes on performance with quizzes, see the section 'Performance of different Moodle modules' in [[Performance recommendations]].
==How can I make the quiz timer "float" or move down the page?==
See this forum thread: [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=210049 How to make the quiz timer float] for one suggestion.

==Why are images not included when exporting quiz questions?==
Images are only included if you export the questions using Moodle XML format. For all other question export formats (including GIFT), you will get broken images. Please see forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=244615 Students not able to see images in exported quiz questions]

==Why does the quiz timer keep counting down when the student is not looking at the quiz?==
It is not possible to stop the timer and start it again. Moodle cannot tell the difference between legitimate reasons for doing this (such as a fire alarm requiring evacuation of the test room) or a student simply using time going to another browser and googling the answers. Nor can Moodle tell if the connection has been lost, although the student does now get a warning MDL-42504

It might be preferable in certain circumstances, such as timed examinations using Quiz, to manually announce the start/end time, rather then rely on the quiz timer.

For further comments see:
* https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=96194
* https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=177180
* https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=237847

==How can a "Never submitted quiz" be submitted?==
Currently there is no way to retrieve an attempt that was "Never Submitted", and get it back into the "In progress" state, but there is a tracker issue MDL-35745. Perhaps the best solution is to plan ahead and set your quiz to set your quiz to be submitted automatically. Failing that, see also this [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=212819 forum thread] which suggests:
# Update the quiz : set the "close the quiz" date after today
# Set "When time expires" to "There is a grace period ..."
#Under Grade set "Attempts allowed" to "unlimited"
#Question behavior: Each attempt builds on the last "Yes"
# Invite the students who did not close their exams
# Allow them to start a new attempt, and close it immediately.

==How can I hide the number of marks available for each question?==

This is not really possible unless you are prepared to edit the code.

If you have a custom theme, you can add CSS like this:
<code css>
.que .info .grade { display: none; }
</code>
or you could try to make it more specific, and only hide the grade before the question is answered:
<code css>
.que.answersaved .info .grade,
.que.invalidanswer .info .grade,
.que.notyetanswered .info .grade { display: none; }
</code>
You can also add this CSS using the [[Header_and_footer|Additional HTML admin setting]].

Alternatively, you can alter the PHP code here: https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/4de51c25ae227a727dcba7c39f6f644a5d47ce7a/mod/quiz/locallib.php#L1820. Change that line to give the behaviour you want, e.g.
<code php>
$options->marks = self::extract($quiz->reviewmarks, $when,
self::MARK_AND_MAX, self::HIDDEN);
</code>

Be warned that any of these approaches will affect every quiz in the Moodle site.

==How can a teacher dry run a quiz before it is released?==
* You have prepared a quiz exam for your students. It is currently in a hidden state.
* The exam opens on the day of the exam, at a time that the students know about.
* However, to satisfy yourself that it is doable in the time allotted, You wish to do a dry run yourself before that date.
* How can You accomplish this?

===Method 1===
You can use the Preview feature available to you as a teacher as you are making the quiz.

===Method 2===
* Make a dummy account with a name like "Test Student".
* Enrol that user in the course as a student.
* Add a "User override" to the quiz, so "Test Student" can attempt the quiz before it is open to everyone else.
* Log in as "Test student".
* Attempt the quiz.
* Log back in as teacher.
* Review the attempt.
* Go to Results -> Grades and delete the test attempt.
* Un-enrol "Test Student" from your course.

===Method 3===
* Set up a Moodle Playground course for your teachers.
* Add teachers with dual role (teacher and student).
* This provides them a place to test things out.
* Teachers can later copy the quiz/assignment/whatever over to their live class.

==How can I prevent a student doing a quiz for another student?==
For some ideas on preventing cheating, see the forum thread [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=271100#p1168345 User dependent locking and unlocking of quizzes]

==See also==
* [[Quiz Time Limit]]

Using Moodle forum discussions:

*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=96326 Removing "Submit all and Finish" button]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=141003 How do you keep people from cheating while taking a quiz?]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=131325 Scientific notation in quiz answers]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158846 Quiz answers appear in wrong language]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=196206 Random Order Override]

Related FAQs:
* [[Import and export FAQ]] - for hints on importing questions
* [[XML FAQ]] - for information on creating and importing questions in Moodle XML format

==External links==
* [http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/cheating.htm Who is Cheating Whom] article

[[Category:FAQ]]

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Using Quiz

2014-12-05T04:15:16Z

Worfds91: /* How students review a quiz */ Updating to reflect the new default in MDL-46093

{{Quiz}}
This page explains how a quiz is accessed and used by students and teachers. It also offers some hints as to good practice in using the quiz module.

==How students take a quiz==

*Click on the quiz link on the course homepage and read the information to check you're in the right quiz.
*Click on "Attempt quiz now" button.
*Click on the "Next" button at the bottom of the page to see the next page of questions
*Click on the "flag" in the box next to the question to put a temporary marker on it

[[File:notyetanswered.png]]

*Notice the Quiz navigation block in the upper right corner. You can use it to jump to any question. Question boxes for the current pag are in bold. Flagged questions will have a "red corner" in their box

[[File:quizflag.png]]

*To finish the exam,click "Finish attempt" in the navigation block of "Next" on the last page of the exam.
*The "Summary of attempt" page - reviews the questions and alerts you to questions not attempted.

[[File:summaryofattempt.png]]

*Click on any question page number or "Return to attempt" to go back to the quiz.
*Click on "Submit all and finish" to have your quiz scored. A warning will pop up telling you you can no longer change your answers.

===Autosave===

If Moodle detects that the student's Internet connection has dropped, and the Quiz autosave feature is enabled, a warning message is displayed, prompting the student to make a note of recent responses.

[[File:Quiz_disconnect.png|400px|Disconnection warning]]

'''New in 2.8''': Quiz autosave is enabled by default, with the default time period set to 2 minutes. This autosave period can be changed, or the setting disabled completely, from ''Site administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Quiz>Autosave period''

===How students review a quiz===
*In the quiz navigation block incorrect answers are RED: partially correct answers are YELLOW and correct answers are GREEN. The flags are still visible:

[[File:colourmarking28.png]]

*In the questions themselves, correct answers will be in green with a check mark. Incorrect answers will be in red with a cross. will have a green check mark next to your correct answer

*According to your teacher's settings, you might get general feedback, specific feedback on each question and/or overall feedback on your final score.

*Although the quiz may have been split into multiple pages, the review will show all the questions on a single page to make it easier to navigate. You can chose to review the quiz with separate pages as it was when you took the quiz.

===Results in a quiz using CBM (Certainty-based marking)===

Quizzes using CBM provide detailed feedback relating to accuracy and certainty:
{|
|[[File:26CBM.png|400px|CBM feedback]]
|}

For more information on how CBM works and how students may benefit from it, see [[Using certainty-based marking]]

===Saving questions and returning later to a quiz===

*If you answer a number of questions and then want to complete the quiz at a later time,click "Finish attempt".
*When you return to continue the quiz, Moodle will remember which page you were on and allow you to continue from there, having saved your previous questions.

===Retaking a quiz===

If your teacher has allowed multiple attempts, when you click on the quiz again you will be informed how many attempts you have remaining along with your previous scores.

==How teachers view a quiz==

''Note: Once a quiz has been attempted, it is not possible to add or delete questions unless previous scores are removed.''

*When attempts have been made on the quiz, the teacher can click the quiz name and access the reports by clicking the link "Attempts - (No. of attempts.

*It is then possible to filter the reports according to preference:

[[File:quizreport.png]]

*A teacher may also access quiz results by clicking on the quiz name in the Navigation block. This opens up other links, enabling them to view by grade, by correct response, by statistics and by manually graded responses:

[[File:quizresultsnav.png]]

*Each individual question may be filtered in score order and individual student quiz responses may be viewed by clicking "Review attempt" next to their name.

*''For more information on how quiz responses are reported, see [[Quiz reports]].''

====Commenting on or regrading responses====

*By clicking on the score of an individual question, a teacher may comment on it or override the grade:

[[File:reviewresponse.png]]

====Messaging students who haven't completed a quiz====
*From the Administration block, click ''Reports>Course participation''
*From the drop down, choose your quiz.
*In ''Show only'', choose "Student" and in ''Actions'', choose "post"
*In the list that appears, tick/check the boxes next to those you wish to message.
*In the bottom dropdown ''With selected users'', choose "send message"

[[File:quizemail.png]]

==Ideas for using Quiz==

Quizzes may be used:
#as unit or course exams
#as mini-tests for reading assignments or at the end of a topic
#as exam practice using questions from previous years' exams
#to deliver immediate feedback for printed workbook activities
#to provide feedback about performance
#for self assessment
#(with the use of the Quiz creator role) to allow students to generate their own quiz questions for a practice question bank.

==Quiz examples of use==

* Certified training course exams linked - This is used in an asynchronous 24/7 course, where students purchase enrollments. There are a series of exams (quiz) with activity locking (looking forward to Moodle 2.0) and set conditional dependencies based on a minimum score on the previous exam. We may use [[Lesson module]] or some sort of [[resource]] to present the content, then give an exam. Our question categories are organized by these exams, our Final exam pulls a selection of random and fixed questions from each of the categories. Taking the Final is dependent upon meeting the last exam minimum score. The certificate is tied to the score on the Final. We use an exported copy of grades to give us a sense of how students are doing in each subject area. Based upon this data, we will look at a quiz's item analysis for commonly missed questions.

* Gather proctor of student test information - Use short answer questions in a quiz to gather contact information about who is going to vouch that a student followed the testing rules at a remote location. We also provide a pdf statement for the proctor to sign for the students records. A 100% score on this "quiz" allows them to take the final and hopefully receive a certificate.

==See also==
* [http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/view.php?id=168 Working example of a quiz on School demo site] (Log in with username:student/password:moodle)
* [http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/report.php?id=168&mode=overview See how a teacher analyses quiz results on School demo site] (Log in with username:teacher/password:moodle)
* [[Effective quiz practices]]
* [[How to let teachers share questions between courses]]
* [[Quiz results]] for teachers reviewing an untaken quiz
* [[Quiz reports]] once students take a quiz, more tools are available
* [[Quiz submission email notification]]
* [http://www.moodlenews.com/2011/friction-less-learning-with-quizzes-in-moodle/ Friction-less Learning with Quizzes in Moodle] by Joseph Thibault
* [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Jtneill/Teaching/Online_Quizzes_and_Exams_with_Moodle Online Quizzes and Exams with Moodle] - reflections by [[User:James Neill|James Neill]]
* [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=243599#p1056525 Combining Moodle quiz code with JQuery, Javascript and CSS to produce some awesome Moodle quizzes] forum discussion
* [http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=51788&section=6 Styles of interactive computer marked assessments]] from the Open University

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Quiz reports

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{{Quiz}}
''Administration> Quiz administration > Results''
This will open a submenu that offers reports on:
* [[Quiz grades report|Grades report]]
* [[Quiz responses report|Responses report]]
* [[Quiz statistics report|Statistics report]]
* [[Quiz manual grading report|Manual grading]]

You can also get to the quiz reports where you see a summary of the number of attempts that have been made like "Attempts: 123". That link also goes to the reports.

==Grades report==

[[Quiz grades report|Grade reports]] shows all the students' quiz attempts, with the overall grade, and the grade for each question. There are links to review all the details of a student's attempt, just as the student would see it.

There is a setting form at the top of the page that can be used to control what is displayed.

[[File:quizreportform1.png|thumb|500px|center|Form for selecting what to include in the report]]

The teacher can select from:
*** enrolled users who have attempted the quiz;
*** enrolled users who have not attempted the quiz;
*** enrolled users who have, or have not, attempted the quiz;
*** all users who have attempted the quiz

[[File:Quiz_result_report_min_6_col_report.png|thumb|500px|center|Report showing information for 3 students]]

The results can be downloaded in a variety of formats.

There is a setting form at the top of the page that can be used to control what is displayed.

At the bottom of the page is a graph showing the distribution of scores.

There are check boxes to allow you to individually regrade or delete the selected attempts.

By clicking on the score link, you are able to look at an individual student exam.

==Responses report==

This is very similar to the Grades report, except that it shows the responses the students gave, rather than the marks they earned.

It is also possible to show the question text or the right answer, to compare with the student's response. This is helpful when the question is randomised.

==Statistics report==

This report gives a statistical (psychometric) analysis of the quiz, and the questions within it. The front page of this report gives a summary of the whole test. There are then links to drill down into a detailed analysis of a particular question.

The full report (overview, and detailed analysis of all questions) can be downloaded in a variety of formats, as can the quiz structure analysis table.

Please refer to [[Quiz statistics report]] for more detailed information about the different types of statistics that can be gathered via this link.

==Manual grading report==

The [[Quiz manual grading report]] makes it easy to manually grade questions in the quiz.

The first screen of the report lists all the questions in the quiz that need to be, or have been, manually graded (for example essay questions) with the number of attempts. There is an option to also show the questions that have been automatically graded, which if useful if you ever need to edit the grades by hand.

==See also==

* Details of the [[:dev:Quiz_statistics_calculations|Quiz statistics calculations]]
* Contributed [http://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=13 Quiz report plugins] available

[[Category:Report]]

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Using Quiz

2014-12-04T18:36:26Z

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{{Quiz}}
This page explains how a quiz is accessed and used by students and teachers. It also offers some hints as to good practice in using the quiz module.

==How students take a quiz==

*Click on the quiz link on the course homepage and read the information to check you're in the right quiz.
*Click on "Attempt quiz now" button.
*Click on the "Next" button at the bottom of the page to see the next page of questions
*Click on the "flag" in the box next to the question to put a temporary marker on it

[[File:notyetanswered.png]]

*Notice the Quiz navigation block in the upper right corner. You can use it to jump to any question. Question boxes for the current pag are in bold. Flagged questions will have a "red corner" in their box

[[File:quizflag.png]]

*To finish the exam,click "Finish attempt" in the navigation block of "Next" on the last page of the exam.
*The "Summary of attempt" page - reviews the questions and alerts you to questions not attempted.

[[File:summaryofattempt.png]]

*Click on any question page number or "Return to attempt" to go back to the quiz.
*Click on "Submit all and finish" to have your quiz scored. A warning will pop up telling you you can no longer change your answers.

===Autosave===

If Moodle detects that the student's Internet connection has dropped, and the Quiz autosave feature is enabled, a warning message is displayed, prompting the student to make a note of recent responses.

[[File:Quiz_disconnect.png|400px|Disconnection warning]]

'''New in 2.8''': Quiz autosave is enabled by default, with the default time period set to 2 minutes. This autosave period can be changed, or the setting disabled completely, from ''Site administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Quiz>Autosave period''

===How students review a quiz===
*In the quiz navigation block incorrect answers are RED: partially correct answers are YELLOW and correct answers are GREEN. The flags are still visible:

[[File:colourmarking.png]]

*In the questions themselves, correct answers will be in green with a check mark. Incorrect answers will be in red with a cross. will have a green check mark next to your correct answer

*According to your teacher's settings, you might get general feedback, specific feedback on each question and/or overall feedback on your final score.

===Results in a quiz using CBM (Certainty-based marking)===

Quizzes using CBM provide detailed feedback relating to accuracy and certainty:
{|
|[[File:26CBM.png|400px|CBM feedback]]
|}

For more information on how CBM works and how students may benefit from it, see [[Using certainty-based marking]]

===Saving questions and returning later to a quiz===

*If you answer a number of questions and then want to complete the quiz at a later time,click "Finish attempt".
*When you return to continue the quiz, Moodle will remember which page you were on and allow you to continue from there, having saved your previous questions.

===Retaking a quiz===

If your teacher has allowed multiple attempts, when you click on the quiz again you will be informed how many attempts you have remaining along with your previous scores.

==How teachers view a quiz==

''Note: Once a quiz has been attempted, it is not possible to add or delete questions unless previous scores are removed.''

*When attempts have been made on the quiz, the teacher can click the quiz name and access the reports by clicking the link "Attempts - (No. of attempts.

*It is then possible to filter the reports according to preference:

[[File:quizreport.png]]

*A teacher may also access quiz results by clicking on the quiz name in the Navigation block. This opens up other links, enabling them to view by grade, by correct response, by statistics and by manually graded responses:

[[File:quizresultsnav.png]]

*Each individual question may be filtered in score order and individual student quiz responses may be viewed by clicking "Review attempt" next to their name.

*''For more information on how quiz responses are reported, see [[Quiz reports]].''

====Commenting on or regrading responses====

*By clicking on the score of an individual question, a teacher may comment on it or override the grade:

[[File:reviewresponse.png]]

====Messaging students who haven't completed a quiz====
*From the Administration block, click ''Reports>Course participation''
*From the drop down, choose your quiz.
*In ''Show only'', choose "Student" and in ''Actions'', choose "post"
*In the list that appears, tick/check the boxes next to those you wish to message.
*In the bottom dropdown ''With selected users'', choose "send message"

[[File:quizemail.png]]

==Ideas for using Quiz==

Quizzes may be used:
#as unit or course exams
#as mini-tests for reading assignments or at the end of a topic
#as exam practice using questions from previous years' exams
#to deliver immediate feedback for printed workbook activities
#to provide feedback about performance
#for self assessment
#(with the use of the Quiz creator role) to allow students to generate their own quiz questions for a practice question bank.

==Quiz examples of use==

* Certified training course exams linked - This is used in an asynchronous 24/7 course, where students purchase enrollments. There are a series of exams (quiz) with activity locking (looking forward to Moodle 2.0) and set conditional dependencies based on a minimum score on the previous exam. We may use [[Lesson module]] or some sort of [[resource]] to present the content, then give an exam. Our question categories are organized by these exams, our Final exam pulls a selection of random and fixed questions from each of the categories. Taking the Final is dependent upon meeting the last exam minimum score. The certificate is tied to the score on the Final. We use an exported copy of grades to give us a sense of how students are doing in each subject area. Based upon this data, we will look at a quiz's item analysis for commonly missed questions.

* Gather proctor of student test information - Use short answer questions in a quiz to gather contact information about who is going to vouch that a student followed the testing rules at a remote location. We also provide a pdf statement for the proctor to sign for the students records. A 100% score on this "quiz" allows them to take the final and hopefully receive a certificate.

==See also==
* [http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/view.php?id=168 Working example of a quiz on School demo site] (Log in with username:student/password:moodle)
* [http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/report.php?id=168&mode=overview See how a teacher analyses quiz results on School demo site] (Log in with username:teacher/password:moodle)
* [[Effective quiz practices]]
* [[How to let teachers share questions between courses]]
* [[Quiz results]] for teachers reviewing an untaken quiz
* [[Quiz reports]] once students take a quiz, more tools are available
* [[Quiz submission email notification]]
* [http://www.moodlenews.com/2011/friction-less-learning-with-quizzes-in-moodle/ Friction-less Learning with Quizzes in Moodle] by Joseph Thibault
* [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Jtneill/Teaching/Online_Quizzes_and_Exams_with_Moodle Online Quizzes and Exams with Moodle] - reflections by [[User:James Neill|James Neill]]
* [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=243599#p1056525 Combining Moodle quiz code with JQuery, Javascript and CSS to produce some awesome Moodle quizzes] forum discussion
* [http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=51788&section=6 Styles of interactive computer marked assessments]] from the Open University

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File:colourmarking28.png

2014-12-04T18:32:46Z

Worfds91:

Using Quiz

2014-12-04T18:32:00Z

Worfds91: /* How students review a quiz */ Adding new screenshot

{{Quiz}}
This page explains how a quiz is accessed and used by students and teachers. It also offers some hints as to good practice in using the quiz module.

==How students take a quiz==

*Click on the quiz link on the course homepage and read the information to check you're in the right quiz.
*Click on "Attempt quiz now" button.
*Click on the "Next" button at the bottom of the page to see the next page of questions
*Click on the "flag" in the box next to the question to put a temporary marker on it

[[File:notyetanswered.png]]

*Notice the Quiz navigation block in the upper right corner. You can use it to jump to any question. Question boxes for the current pag are in bold. Flagged questions will have a "red corner" in their box

[[File:quizflag.png]]

*To finish the exam,click "Finish attempt" in the navigation block of "Next" on the last page of the exam.
*The "Summary of attempt" page - reviews the questions and alerts you to questions not attempted.

[[File:summaryofattempt.png]]

*Click on any question page number or "Return to attempt" to go back to the quiz.
*Click on "Submit all and finish" to have your quiz scored. A warning will pop up telling you you can no longer change your answers.

===Autosave===

If Moodle detects that the student's Internet connection has dropped, and the Quiz autosave feature is enabled, a warning message is displayed, prompting the student to make a note of recent responses.

[[File:Quiz_disconnect.png|400px|Disconnection warning]]

'''New in 2.8''': Quiz autosave is enabled by default, with the default time period set to 2 minutes. This autosave period can be changed, or the setting disabled completely, from ''Site administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Quiz>Autosave period''

===How students review a quiz===
*In the quiz navigation block incorrect answers are RED: partially correct answers are YELLOW and correct answers are GREEN. The flags are still visible:

[[File:colourmarking28.png]]

*In the questions themselves, correct answers will be in green with a check mark. Incorrect answers will be in red with a cross. will have a green check mark next to your correct answer

*According to your teacher's settings, you might get general feedback, specific feedback on each question and/or overall feedback on your final score.

===Results in a quiz using CBM (Certainty-based marking)===

Quizzes using CBM provide detailed feedback relating to accuracy and certainty:
{|
|[[File:26CBM.png|400px|CBM feedback]]
|}

For more information on how CBM works and how students may benefit from it, see [[Using certainty-based marking]]

===Saving questions and returning later to a quiz===

*If you answer a number of questions and then want to complete the quiz at a later time,click "Finish attempt".
*When you return to continue the quiz, Moodle will remember which page you were on and allow you to continue from there, having saved your previous questions.

===Retaking a quiz===

If your teacher has allowed multiple attempts, when you click on the quiz again you will be informed how many attempts you have remaining along with your previous scores.

==How teachers view a quiz==

''Note: Once a quiz has been attempted, it is not possible to add or delete questions unless previous scores are removed.''

*When attempts have been made on the quiz, the teacher can click the quiz name and access the reports by clicking the link "Attempts - (No. of attempts.

*It is then possible to filter the reports according to preference:

[[File:quizreport.png]]

*A teacher may also access quiz results by clicking on the quiz name in the Navigation block. This opens up other links, enabling them to view by grade, by correct response, by statistics and by manually graded responses:

[[File:quizresultsnav.png]]

*Each individual question may be filtered in score order and individual student quiz responses may be viewed by clicking "Review attempt" next to their name.

*''For more information on how quiz responses are reported, see [[Quiz reports]].''

====Commenting on or regrading responses====

*By clicking on the score of an individual question, a teacher may comment on it or override the grade:

[[File:reviewresponse.png]]

====Messaging students who haven't completed a quiz====
*From the Administration block, click ''Reports>Course participation''
*From the drop down, choose your quiz.
*In ''Show only'', choose "Student" and in ''Actions'', choose "post"
*In the list that appears, tick/check the boxes next to those you wish to message.
*In the bottom dropdown ''With selected users'', choose "send message"

[[File:quizemail.png]]

==Ideas for using Quiz==

Quizzes may be used:
#as unit or course exams
#as mini-tests for reading assignments or at the end of a topic
#as exam practice using questions from previous years' exams
#to deliver immediate feedback for printed workbook activities
#to provide feedback about performance
#for self assessment
#(with the use of the Quiz creator role) to allow students to generate their own quiz questions for a practice question bank.

==Quiz examples of use==

* Certified training course exams linked - This is used in an asynchronous 24/7 course, where students purchase enrollments. There are a series of exams (quiz) with activity locking (looking forward to Moodle 2.0) and set conditional dependencies based on a minimum score on the previous exam. We may use [[Lesson module]] or some sort of [[resource]] to present the content, then give an exam. Our question categories are organized by these exams, our Final exam pulls a selection of random and fixed questions from each of the categories. Taking the Final is dependent upon meeting the last exam minimum score. The certificate is tied to the score on the Final. We use an exported copy of grades to give us a sense of how students are doing in each subject area. Based upon this data, we will look at a quiz's item analysis for commonly missed questions.

* Gather proctor of student test information - Use short answer questions in a quiz to gather contact information about who is going to vouch that a student followed the testing rules at a remote location. We also provide a pdf statement for the proctor to sign for the students records. A 100% score on this "quiz" allows them to take the final and hopefully receive a certificate.

==See also==
* [http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/view.php?id=168 Working example of a quiz on School demo site] (Log in with username:student/password:moodle)
* [http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/report.php?id=168&mode=overview See how a teacher analyses quiz results on School demo site] (Log in with username:teacher/password:moodle)
* [[Effective quiz practices]]
* [[How to let teachers share questions between courses]]
* [[Quiz results]] for teachers reviewing an untaken quiz
* [[Quiz reports]] once students take a quiz, more tools are available
* [[Quiz submission email notification]]
* [http://www.moodlenews.com/2011/friction-less-learning-with-quizzes-in-moodle/ Friction-less Learning with Quizzes in Moodle] by Joseph Thibault
* [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Jtneill/Teaching/Online_Quizzes_and_Exams_with_Moodle Online Quizzes and Exams with Moodle] - reflections by [[User:James Neill|James Neill]]
* [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=243599#p1056525 Combining Moodle quiz code with JQuery, Javascript and CSS to produce some awesome Moodle quizzes] forum discussion
* [http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=51788&section=6 Styles of interactive computer marked assessments]] from the Open University

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Building Quiz

2014-12-04T18:28:37Z

Worfds91: /* Assigning points to questions */ Removing note about the multiple save buttons as its no longer relevant in 2.8 with the redesign.

{{Quiz}}

==How a Moodle quiz works==

The word “quiz” might conjure up for some images of TV game shows, but a Moodle quiz is basically a set of questions presented to the learner which may be automatically marked by Moodle or graded later by the teacher. The questions may be in sentence or number form or contain various media such as video or sound. They do not all need to be the same type of questions: a quiz may contain multiple choice, matching, essays (teacher-graded) and calculated. Feedback may be given at any or all stages of the process.

Once a quiz is made, that’s not the end of it. A Moodle quiz is environmentally friendly: its questions are saved in a [[Question bank]] and may be recycled for use elsewhere. Thus, Mr Brown could create a Physics Quiz with 20 questions for his class, Class Brown, and his colleague Mr Smith sharing the course could save himself valuable time by resusing 5 of Mr Brown’s questions in his own General Science quiz for Class Smith. (See also [[How to let teachers share questions between courses|Question Sharer role]] for sharing questions across the site)

If you think of a quiz as a book, the [[Quiz settings]] are equivalent to the front cover; the quiz itself is contained within when the questions are created. (Be careful : once you have chosen the Quiz Settings, it will be “live” on your course page, unless you hide it, so your learners could potentially see a quiz with no questions, like a front cover with no content.)

Note that it is possible to create questions directly in the [[Question bank]] without first creating a quiz. These questions may then be used later.

Once a quiz has been added to the course and the [[Quiz settings]] established,the teacher can start to build the quiz. The teacher can access the quiz to edit the questions by clicking directly on the Quiz name on the course home page or by clicking "Edit quiz" in ''Administration>Quiz administration.''

{|
| [[File:editquiz.png|thumb|400px|Accessing the quiz to add or edit questions]]

|}

==Adding questions==
{{New features}}

Once you have accessed the quiz editing screen as above, you can add questions from a number of locations:

#Click the 'Add' link as in the screenshot below
#When it opens up, choose either to add a new question, to select a question from the question bank or to add a random question.

{|
| [[File:newaddquestion.png|thumb|450px|Adding a question]]

|}

===Creating a new question===

1. To make a brand new question, click 'Add' and then '+ a new question'.

2. From the next screen, choose the question type you want to add and click "Next"

'''NOTE:''' ''When you click on a question type on the left, helpful information appears on the right''.

{|
| [[File:questionpicker.png|thumb|440px|Selecting a question type]]

|}

3. Fill in the question form, making sure to give a grade to the correct answer.

4. Click "Save changes".

{|
| [[File:newlycreatedquestion.png|thumb|430px|A question when it has been created]]

|}

'''Note:''' If you have a very complex question, and you want to check it as you go along, you can preview it and then click "Save changes and continue editing".

{|
| [[File:savechangesandcontinuediting.png|thumb|398px|Save changes and continue editing]]

|}

Note that when a question has been created, an icon and words display its type (eg multiple choice). It can be modified by clicking the edit icon (eg [[File:editicon.png]]) and previewed or deleted by clicking the magnifying glass or X icons:(eg [[File:previewdelete1.png]])
====Adding responses and feedback====

When you add responses and feedback you can display one or more toolbars in the editor:
{|
| [[File:quizform1.png|thumb|350px|With one toolbar]]
| [[File:quizform2.png|thumb|350px|With three toolbars]]

|}

You can continue adding questions this way, clicking 'Add' and '+ a new question' each time.

===Choosing a pre-made question===
*If other teachers in the course have made questions, or if a teacher made questions in an earlier quiz, these can be added to the current quiz by clicking 'Add' and '+ from question bank' .
* Click the + sign next to one question you want to add it (1 in screenshot below)
* If you have several questions, or you want to add all the questions, tick the box of each question or the top box (2 in screenshot below) and then click 'Add selected questions to the quiz' (3 in the screenshot below).
* To sort the questions, click the column headings. The default sort order (T) is short for question type. (2 in the screenshot below)
* To ensure all previously made questions are available, make sure to tick the boxes "also show questions from sub-categories/old questions".

{|
| [[File:addfromqbank1.png|thumb|350px|Using a previously made question]]

|}

'''Note:''' It is also possible to import pre-made questions into your quiz, from ''Quiz administration>Question bank>Import.'' See [[Import questions]] for more information. Sample questions are available from the [http://moodle.net/mod/data/view.php?d=1&mode=list&perpage=40&search=&sort=0&order=DESC&advanced=0&filter=1&advanced=1&f_2=Quiz+questions&f_11=&f_13=&f_12=&f_9=&f_8= Moodle.net content database.]

===Adding a random question===
As long as you have questions in the question bank, you can add random questions to your quiz by clicking 'Add' and then '+ a random question'. This might be useful if you have students in a class taking a quiz at the same time, because they are unlikely to get the same questions at the same time. 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.

You can add one or more random questions by choosing the number and category in the question bank. Note the die icon to highlight random question selection.
{|
| [[File:addrandomq.png|thumb|400px|Adding a random question]]
| [[File:newrandom.png|thumb|400px|Random question selected for quiz]]

|}

====Quiz question tags====
Note that although it is possible to tag questions, the feature does not currently work. See forum discussion: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194119

===Question categories===
Questions can be stored and retrieved from categories in the Question bank. When you make a new question it defaults to the category with the course name. So if you make a quiz in the Senior Physics course, questions will automatically be added to "Default for Senior Physics". You can opt to have your quiz questions in a category of their own ("Quizname") or to add a subcategory.

To add a subcategory, go to ''Administration>Quiz administration>Question bank>Categories'' For more information on question contexts and categories, see [[Question bank]]

Users will have access to different categories according to their permissions. For example, a regular teacher might only have access to question categories in his own Physics course whereas his Faculty Head of Science with permissions in all science courses might have access to question categories in Biology and Chemistry as well.

==Quiz layout==
{{New features}}

*You can choose in '' Administration>Quiz administration>Edit settings>Layout'' whether to have a new page for every question or after a certain number of questions.
* You can add a page break between questions by clicking the arrow icon (where the arrows are pointing away from each other) (1 in the screenshot below) A new page will be created. (2 in the screenshot below)
*You can remove pages by clicking the arrow icon (where the arrows are pointing towards each other). (3 in the screenshot below)

[[File:addpagebreak.png|thumb|500px|center]]
*You can also change the layout of the whole quiz by clicking the 'Repaginate' button:

[[File:repaginate.png|thumb|center|500px]]

*Questions may be moved by dragging and dropping using the crosshairs icon: [[File:crosshairsicon.png]]

==Assigning points to questions ==
''Administration > Quiz administration > Edit quiz > Editing quiz''

You can set how many points each question is worth by changing the number in the box to the right of each question and you can change the maximum grade by changing the number in the box top right at the top of the quiz. The default is one point per question and 100.00 maximum grade.

{|
| [[File:allquizgrades.png|thumb|450px|Points per question and max grade]]
| [[File:editmaxmark.png|thumb|450px|Edit individual marks]]

|}

The quiz module will do any maths, so for example, a 2 point question will be worth 2 times more when the Quiz module determines how many point out of 10 to award the student.

==Previewing the quiz==
*You can preview individual questions by clicking the magnifying glass icon.
*You can preview the whole quiz by clicking the "Preview" link in ''Administration>Quiz administration>Preview''
*The quiz works like a real quiz so you can see your grades and any feedback for correct/incorrect answers just as a student would see them.

'''NOTE''': ''To get a more accurate view of how a student would view your quiz, it is advised to log in with a "dummy" student account created by the admin for testing activities. This is more reliable than the 'switch role to student' feature.

*See also the question: 'How can a teacher '-dry run a quiz..?' in [[Quiz FAQ]]''
{|
| [[File:singleqp.png|thumb|300px|Previewing a single question]]
| [[File:previewquiz.png|thumb|200px|Click to preview the whole quiz]]
| [[File:quizpreviewed.png|thumb|200px|Quiz in preview mode]]

|}

==After quiz has been attempted==
If one or more students have taken the quiz, you will see a list of all the questions in the quiz and a notice saying that you cannot add or remove questions.

You can change the order of questions, regrade them, preview an individual question and click on an question edit link that will allow you to directly edit the question stored in the question bank.

'''NOTE:''' You can delete all quiz attempts by students and then edit the quiz as if no students had attempted it. To do this,click the quiz name and then the Results link in the Navigation block. This will present a list of students and their scores. Click "Select all" and then "Delete selected attempts".

===Dealing with faulty questions===

There are several ways to deal with "bad" questions in a quiz.
::*Change the grade for the bad question to 0 in the quiz.
::*Edit the question, changing what you will accept as a correct answer, then regrading the exam. Remember when changing a question that the next time it is used it will be as it was in the last edit. Also, regrading will only affect one quiz at a time.
::*You can edit the question to explain the situation to the student and then you can set the grade for the question to zero. After you make such changes you should regrade the quiz by clicking on the '''Results''' tab and then the '''Regrade''' tab. This will change the grade for all students who have taken the quiz so far. Remember, if the question is used by another quiz, your "explanation" will appear as part of that quiz.
::*You can change the grade for the bad question and then move or delete the question from your question category. The question will still appear on the quiz. Some places do not like to delete any question, but will move them to a "dead" or "bad" question category.
::*When you discover a bad question in your quiz, it may affect the question bank. Remember that a final might be made up of a certain number of random questions drawn from different question categories, the same categories used in a smaller subject quiz. It can be very important do something about bad or invalid questions in a question category when the categories are use in other places.

==See also==
*[[Questions]] in [[Managing a Moodle course]]

[[Category:Questions]]

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[[es:Construyendo un examen]]

Quiz settings

2014-12-04T18:22:53Z

Worfds91: /* Extra restrictions on attempts */ Remove warning about MDL-32047 as its not relevant.

{{Quiz}}
Creating a new quiz is a two-step process. In the first step, you create the quiz activity and set its options which specify the rules for interacting with the quiz. In the second step you add questions to the quiz.
This page describes the options you can set for the quiz activity. The page [[Building Quiz]] describes how to set up the questions for the quiz.

==Quiz administration==
When you first set up your quiz from ''Add an activity or resource > Quiz'', (or, if you don't have this link, the dropdown ''Add an activity>Quiz'') you will get the following settings, (which can also be changed later in the Edit Settings link of the Quiz administration settings block) All settings may expanded by clicking the "Expand all" link top right.

==General==
{|
|[[File:Quizgeneral.png|thumb|448px|General settings expanded by default]]
|}
;Name
:This is the standard name field. This name will appear on the home page of the course, navigation menu and other places which will show or provide links to this quiz.

;Description
:Describe the purpose of the glossary and provide instructions or background information, links etc. Click the icon top left to expand the toolbars, and drag the bottom right of the text box out to expand it.

;'''Display description on course page'''
:If ticked, the quiz description will appear on the course page directly under the quiz name.

==Timing==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quiztiming.png|thumb|452px|Timing settings expanded]]
|}

;Open the quiz
:You can specify times when the quiz is accessible for people to make attempts. Before the opening time the quiz will be unavailable to students. They will be able to view the quiz introduction but will not be able to view the questions. Quizzes with start times in the future diasplay both the open and close date for students.

Note: You can make the quiz available at different times for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block.

;Close the quiz
:After the closing time, the students will not be able to start new attempts. Answers that the student submits after the quiz closing date will be saved but they will not be marked.

: Even after the quiz has closed students will still be able to see the quiz description and review their attempts. What exactly they will see depends on the settings you choose for review options (see below).
;Time limit
:By default, quizzes do not have a time limit, which allows students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you do specify a time limit, several things are done to try and ensure that quizzes are completed within that time:
{|
|[[File:quiz timer.png|thumb|Navigation block showing quiz timer]]
|}

# A countdown timer is shown in the quiz navigation block
# When the timer has run out, the quiz is submitted automatically with whatever answers have been filled in so far
# If a student manages to cheat and goes over the allotted time, no marks are awarded for any answers entered after the time ran out

Note: You can make the quiz available last a different period of time for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block (see below).

;When time expires..

There are three options as to what will happen when the time limit is up. Choose the one you need from the dropdown menu:
# Open attempts are submitted automatically (This is the default)
# There is a grace period when open attempts can be submitted, but no more questions answered
# Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not counted

If you select "''There is a grace period...''" then you can check the box to enable the "Submission grace period" and specify a period of time during which learners may still submit the quiz after the time is up.

===Examples of how timing is handled===

#A student starts a quiz at noon. The quiz has a one-hour time-limit, and a 1 hour delay between attempts. The student gets distracted, and so actually does not submit (using the overdue handling) until 1:30pm. ''They are allowed to start their second attempt at 2. pm''
#The quiz count-down timer submits a student's quiz attempt at the last second when time expires. Because the server is heavily loaded, it takes 30 seconds to process the student's attempt. ''The submission is accepted nonetheless.''
#Same situation as above but with a 120 second delay: ''The submission is rejected.''
#The delay is not because of server load but because the student found a way to cheat the timer. ''Moodle cannot know what causes a delay.The behaviour is controlled by the admin setting(quiz | graceperiodmin), 60 seconds by default.''
#A student is a member of 3 groups,all of which have different override settings. Which limits will apply to this student? ''If there is any user-specific override, then that is used, and the group overrides for that setting are not used at all. Otherwise, if there are multiple group overrides, the most generous values are used (the earliest open date, the latest close date, the longest time limit, the most number of attempts, and the student can type any of the passwords).''

==Grade==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizgrade.png|thumb|312px|Grade settings expanded]]
|}

;Grade category
If you have categories in your gradebook, select the one you wish the quiz to be in here.
;Attempts allowed
:Students may be allowed to have multiple attempts at a quiz. This can help make the process of taking the quiz more of an educational activity rather than simply an assessment. If the quiz is randomized then the student will get a new version for each attempt. This is useful for practice purposes.

Note: You can change the allowed number of attempts for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block.

;Grading method
:When multiple attempts are allowed, there are different ways you can use the grades to calculate the student's final grade for the quiz.
* Highest grade - the final grade is the highest (best) grade in any attempt
* Average grade - the final grade is the average (simple mean) grade of all attempts
* First grade - the final grade is the grade earned on the first attempt (other attempts are ignored)
* Last grade - the final grade is the grade earned on the most recent attempt only

==Layout==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizlayout.png|thumb|422px|Layout settings expanded]]
|}

;Question order
:If 'Shuffled randomly' is selected, then the order of questions in the quiz will be randomly shuffled each time a student starts a new attempt at the quiz. The intention is to make it a little harder for students to copy from each other.

;New page
:For longer quizzes it makes sense to stretch the quiz over several pages by limiting the number of questions per page. When adding questions to the quiz, page breaks will automatically be inserted according to the setting you choose here. However, you will also be able to move page breaks around by hand later on the editing page.
:'''Note that changing this setting has no effect on questions you have already added to the quiz'''. The setting will only apply to questions you add subsequently. To change the page breaks in an existing quiz, you need to go to the quiz editing screen, tick the 'Show page breaks' checkbox, then use the repaginate control.

;Navigation method (available by clicking ''Show More'')

By choosing ''Sequential'' instead of ''Free'', the teacher is forcing the student to progress through the questions in order without being able to go back to a previous question or skip to a later one.

==Question behaviour==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizquestionbehaviour.png|thumb|447px|Question behaviour settings expanded]]
|}
;Shuffle within questions
:If set to 'yes', then each time the student takes a quiz the parts of the question will be shuffled randomly.

;How questions behave
:See [[Question behaviours]].

;Each attempt builds on the last (available by clicking "Show more")
:If multiple attempts are allowed and this setting is set to Yes, then each new attempt contains the results of the previous attempt. This allows the student on the new attempt to concentrate on just those questions that were answered incorrectly on the previous attempt. If this option is chosen then each attempt by a particular student uses the same questions in the same order, independent of randomization settings. To show a fresh quiz on every attempt, select No for this setting.

==Review options==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizreview.png|thumb|600px|Review options expanded]]
|}

This section controls what information students will be shown when they review their past attempts at the quiz, and during the attempt in adaptive mode. It is a matrix with check boxes.

The various pieces of information that can be controlled are:
; The attempt: Will show how the student responded to each question.
; Whether correct: Displays whether the students response to each question is correct or incorrect.
; Marks: Reveals the marks awarded to the student and the grade for the quiz.
; Specific feedback: Will show the feedback for the response to the answer as set when adding the question to the quiz. Each response to a question can have feedback for both correct and incorrect answers.
; General feedback: Displays the general feedback for the whole question as set when adding the question to the quiz. You can use the general feedback to give students some background to what knowledge the question was testing.
; Right answer: Reveals the correct answer to each question, whether the student answered correctly or not (See note below).
; Overall feedback: Displays feedback for the entire quiz as set in the quiz settings (See note below).

For each of the above items, you can determine the timeframe when the students will see them:
; During the attempt : is only available when ''‘How questions behave’'' has been set to ''‘Immediate feedback’'', ''‘Immediate feedback with CBM’'' and ''‘Interactive with multiple tries’''. If set to one of these options then a ''‘Check’'' button will appear below the answer and when clicked the student will submit that response and then receive immediate feedback.
; Immediately after the attempt : means within 2 minutes of the student clicking "submit all and finish".
; Later, while the quiz is still open : means after 2 minutes, but before the close date (if the quiz does not have a close date, this phase never ends).
; After the quiz is closed : means what it says (you never get here for quizzes without a close date).

:''Tip:'' Checking any of the boxes in the timeframe row, will reveal the test to the student. For example, to allow students to see their quiz immediately after taking it but not later, make sure none of the boxes in "Later" or "After" rows are checked. The student will be able to see their grade but not get into the quiz.

Note: Currently, the Answers display is a bit inconsistent between different question types. For example, the matching question type shows students which of their responses are correct, but does not tell them the right answer for the ones they got wrong. The short answer and multiple choices question types do tell the student what the correct answer is.

Users with the capability 'View hidden grades' [[Capabilities/moodle/grade:viewhidden|moodle/grade:viewhidden]] (typically teachers and administrators) are not affected by these settings and will always by able to review all information about a student's attempt at any time.

In your list of review options, you must have 'The attempt' (the first option in the lists) selected before you can enable the options to show 'Whether correct', 'Specific feedback', 'General feedback', and 'Right answer'. If you choose not to let the students review the attempt, your only options are to display 'Marks' and 'Overall feedback'.

==Appearance==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizappearance.png|thumb|470px|Display settings expanded]]
|}

:Show the user's picture
It is now possible, when displaying the user's profile picture for proctoring purposes, to choose whether a large image or thumbnail will be displayed.

;Decimal places in grades
:This option determines how many digits will be shown after the decimal separator (see [[dev:Translation_langconfig|langconfig]] ) when the grade is displayed. A setting of 0 for example means that the grades are displayed as integers. This setting is only used for the display of grades, not for the display or marking of answers.

==Extra restrictions on attempts==
(These settings are collapsed by default and are available by clicking "Show more")
{|
|[[File:quizextrarestrictions.png|thumb|470px|Extra restrictions settings expanded]]
|}

;Require password
:This field is optional.

:If you specify a password in here then participants must enter the same password before they are allowed to make an attempt on the quiz. This is useful to give only a selected group of students access to the quiz.

;Require network address
:This field is optional.

:You can restrict access for a quiz to particular subnets on the LAN or Internet by specifying a comma-separated list of partial or full IP address numbers. This is especially useful for a proctored (invigilated) quiz, where you want to be sure that only people in a certain room are able to access the quiz. For example: 192.168. , 231.54.211.0/20, 231.3.56.211

:There are three types of numbers you can use (you can not use text based domain names like example.com):

# Full IP addresses, such as 192.168.10.1 which will match a single computer (or proxy).
# Partial addresses, such as 192.168 which will match anything starting with those numbers.
# CIDR notation, such as 231.54.211.0/20 which allows you to specify more detailed subnets.

:Spaces are ignored.

;Enforced delay between attempts
:These two fields are optional.

:You can set a time (from seconds to weeks) between the first and second attempt of a quiz. You can also (or alternatively) set a time from seconds to weeks for subsequent attempts after the second attempt. Thus, you might allow a student to take the quiz twice immediately with no delay, but if they want to improve their score with a third attempt, they are forced to wait a week and use the time for extra revision.

;Browser security
:This is by default an advanced field, visible by clicking "Show advanced".
:The options in this section offer various ways to try to restrict how students may try to 'cheat' while attempting a quiz. However, this is not a simple issue, and what in one situation is considered 'cheating' may, in another situation, just be effective use of information technology. (For example, the ability to quickly find answers using a search engine.)

::Note also that this is not just at problem of technology with a technical solution. Cheating has been going on since long before computers, and while computers make certain actions, like copy and paste, easier, they also make it easier for teachers to detect cheating - for example using the quiz reports. The options provided here are not fool-proof, and while they do make some forms of cheating harder for students, they also make it more inconvenient for students to attempt the quizzes, and they are not fool-proof.

:'''Full screen pop-up with some JavaScript security'''

:There is a limit to what the quiz, which runs on a web server, can do to restrict what the student sitting at their computer can do while attempting the quiz. However, this option does what is possible:

:* The quiz will only start if the student has a JavaScript-enabled web-browser.
:* The quiz appears in a fullscreen popup window that covers all the other windows and has no course navigation controls.

{|
|[[File:seb24.png|thumb|465px|Student view of quiz question with full screen popup. (Click to see enlarged)]]
|}
:* The students are prevented, as far as is possible, from using facilities like copy and paste.

:'''Require the use of Safe Exam Browser'''

:This option will only appear if your administrator has enabled it in ''Settings > Site administration > Development > Experimental > Experimental settings''.

:[[Safe exam browser|Safe Exam Browser]] is a customised web browser that must be downloaded and installed on the computer that the student uses to attempt the quiz. It restricts student use more effectively than a pop up window option. Features include full screen, without web navigation options, shortcut keys including copy and paste are disabled and of course surfing the web during an exam.

==Overall feedback==
(These setttings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizoverallfeedback.png|thumb|448px|Overall feedback settings expanded]]
|}
Overall feedback is shown to a student after they have completed an attempt at the quiz. The text that is shown can depend on the grade the student got. Click "Show editing tools" to display the rich text editor, and drag the bottom right of the text box out to expand it.

For example, if you entered:

:Grade boundary: 100%
:Feedback: "Well done"
:Grade boundary: 40%
:Feedback: "Please study this week's work again"
:Grade boundary: 0%

Then students who score between 100% and 40% will see the "Well done" message, and those who score between 39.99% and 0% will see "Please study this week's work again". That is, the grade boundaries define ranges of grades, and each feedback string is displayed to scores within the appropriate range.

Grade boundaries can be specified either as a percentage, for example "31.41%", or as a number, for example "7". If your quiz is out of 10 marks, a grade boundary of 7 means 7/10 or better.

Note that the maximum and minimum grade boundaries (100% and 0%) are set automatically.

You can set as many or as few grade boundaries as you wish. The form allows you up to 5 ranges at first, but you can add more by clicking the "Add 3 fields to form" button underneath.

If you're getting confusing error messages about a boundary being out of sequence (when it's obviously *in* sequence), or "boundaries must be between 0% and 100%" (and they are) -- check that the Maximum Grade for this quiz is set to something greater than zero.
==Outcomes==
This setting will only appear if [[Outcomes]] have been enabled by the administrator and are used in the course. See [[Outcomes]] for how to remove an outcome once it has been added to a quiz.

==Common module settings==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
See [[Common module settings]]

==Restrict access/Activity completion==
(These settings are collapsed by default)

The Restrict access and Activity completion settings are visible if [[Conditional activities]] and [[Activity completion]] have been enabled in the site and the course.
===Quiz completion===

The following automatic activity completion conditions apply to the quiz:

:''Require view'' - the student clicks on the quiz to view it
:''Require grade'' - the student obtains a grade

[[File:quizpassinggrade.png|thumb|500px|center]]

{{New features}}
:''Require a passing grade'' - a 'Grade to pass' is specified for the quiz in the gradebook.
:''All available attempts completed'' - a certain number of attempts were allowed on the quiz and the student has completed them all.

==Group and User overrides==

[[File:overridesquiz.png]]

Dates, timing and number of allowed attempts may be changed for individual users or groups by following the links ''Group Overrides'' or ''User Overrides'' in the Quiz Administration settings block.

===Group overrides===
To change a quiz setting for a particular group, click the "add group override" button in ''Quiz Administration>Group overrides'', make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

===User overrides===
To change a quiz setting for a particular user or users, click the "add user override"button in ''Quiz Administration>Group overrides'', make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

[[Image:groupuseroverride.png|groupuseroverride.png]]

==Site administration settings==

The quiz module has additional settings which may be changed by an administrator in ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Quiz''.

;Autosave period
:If enabled, student responses will be saved every minute/two minutes/five minutes (according to selection) This is useful so that students don't lose work but does increase the load on the server.

How questions behave can be configured in ''Administration>Site administration>Plugins>Question behaviours>Manage question
behaviours''

==See also==
*[http://youtu.be/MCLGZTpfG60 Moodle 2.x Quiz] MoodleBites video on YouTube

[[fr:Ajouter/modifier un test]]
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Quiz settings

2014-12-04T17:45:11Z

Worfds91: Updated default for "When time expires" setting (MDL-47276) #dmoot

{{Quiz}}
Creating a new quiz is a two-step process. In the first step, you create the quiz activity and set its options which specify the rules for interacting with the quiz. In the second step you add questions to the quiz.
This page describes the options you can set for the quiz activity. The page [[Building Quiz]] describes how to set up the questions for the quiz.

==Quiz administration==
When you first set up your quiz from ''Add an activity or resource > Quiz'', (or, if you don't have this link, the dropdown ''Add an activity>Quiz'') you will get the following settings, (which can also be changed later in the Edit Settings link of the Quiz administration settings block) All settings may expanded by clicking the "Expand all" link top right.

==General==
{|
|[[File:Quizgeneral.png|thumb|448px|General settings expanded by default]]
|}
;Name
:This is the standard name field. This name will appear on the home page of the course, navigation menu and other places which will show or provide links to this quiz.

;Description
:Describe the purpose of the glossary and provide instructions or background information, links etc. Click the icon top left to expand the toolbars, and drag the bottom right of the text box out to expand it.

;'''Display description on course page'''
:If ticked, the quiz description will appear on the course page directly under the quiz name.

==Timing==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quiztiming.png|thumb|452px|Timing settings expanded]]
|}

;Open the quiz
:You can specify times when the quiz is accessible for people to make attempts. Before the opening time the quiz will be unavailable to students. They will be able to view the quiz introduction but will not be able to view the questions. Quizzes with start times in the future diasplay both the open and close date for students.

Note: You can make the quiz available at different times for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block.

;Close the quiz
:After the closing time, the students will not be able to start new attempts. Answers that the student submits after the quiz closing date will be saved but they will not be marked.

: Even after the quiz has closed students will still be able to see the quiz description and review their attempts. What exactly they will see depends on the settings you choose for review options (see below).
;Time limit
:By default, quizzes do not have a time limit, which allows students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you do specify a time limit, several things are done to try and ensure that quizzes are completed within that time:
{|
|[[File:quiz timer.png|thumb|Navigation block showing quiz timer]]
|}

# A countdown timer is shown in the quiz navigation block
# When the timer has run out, the quiz is submitted automatically with whatever answers have been filled in so far
# If a student manages to cheat and goes over the allotted time, no marks are awarded for any answers entered after the time ran out

Note: You can make the quiz available last a different period of time for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block (see below).

;When time expires..

There are three options as to what will happen when the time limit is up. Choose the one you need from the dropdown menu:
# Open attempts are submitted automatically (This is the default)
# There is a grace period when open attempts can be submitted, but no more questions answered
# Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not counted

If you select "''There is a grace period...''" then you can check the box to enable the "Submission grace period" and specify a period of time during which learners may still submit the quiz after the time is up.

===Examples of how timing is handled===

#A student starts a quiz at noon. The quiz has a one-hour time-limit, and a 1 hour delay between attempts. The student gets distracted, and so actually does not submit (using the overdue handling) until 1:30pm. ''They are allowed to start their second attempt at 2. pm''
#The quiz count-down timer submits a student's quiz attempt at the last second when time expires. Because the server is heavily loaded, it takes 30 seconds to process the student's attempt. ''The submission is accepted nonetheless.''
#Same situation as above but with a 120 second delay: ''The submission is rejected.''
#The delay is not because of server load but because the student found a way to cheat the timer. ''Moodle cannot know what causes a delay.The behaviour is controlled by the admin setting(quiz | graceperiodmin), 60 seconds by default.''
#A student is a member of 3 groups,all of which have different override settings. Which limits will apply to this student? ''If there is any user-specific override, then that is used, and the group overrides for that setting are not used at all. Otherwise, if there are multiple group overrides, the most generous values are used (the earliest open date, the latest close date, the longest time limit, the most number of attempts, and the student can type any of the passwords).''

==Grade==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizgrade.png|thumb|312px|Grade settings expanded]]
|}

;Grade category
If you have categories in your gradebook, select the one you wish the quiz to be in here.
;Attempts allowed
:Students may be allowed to have multiple attempts at a quiz. This can help make the process of taking the quiz more of an educational activity rather than simply an assessment. If the quiz is randomized then the student will get a new version for each attempt. This is useful for practice purposes.

Note: You can change the allowed number of attempts for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block.

;Grading method
:When multiple attempts are allowed, there are different ways you can use the grades to calculate the student's final grade for the quiz.
* Highest grade - the final grade is the highest (best) grade in any attempt
* Average grade - the final grade is the average (simple mean) grade of all attempts
* First grade - the final grade is the grade earned on the first attempt (other attempts are ignored)
* Last grade - the final grade is the grade earned on the most recent attempt only

==Layout==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizlayout.png|thumb|422px|Layout settings expanded]]
|}

;Question order
:If 'Shuffled randomly' is selected, then the order of questions in the quiz will be randomly shuffled each time a student starts a new attempt at the quiz. The intention is to make it a little harder for students to copy from each other.

;New page
:For longer quizzes it makes sense to stretch the quiz over several pages by limiting the number of questions per page. When adding questions to the quiz, page breaks will automatically be inserted according to the setting you choose here. However, you will also be able to move page breaks around by hand later on the editing page.
:'''Note that changing this setting has no effect on questions you have already added to the quiz'''. The setting will only apply to questions you add subsequently. To change the page breaks in an existing quiz, you need to go to the quiz editing screen, tick the 'Show page breaks' checkbox, then use the repaginate control.

;Navigation method (available by clicking ''Show More'')

By choosing ''Sequential'' instead of ''Free'', the teacher is forcing the student to progress through the questions in order without being able to go back to a previous question or skip to a later one.

==Question behaviour==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizquestionbehaviour.png|thumb|447px|Question behaviour settings expanded]]
|}
;Shuffle within questions
:If set to 'yes', then each time the student takes a quiz the parts of the question will be shuffled randomly.

;How questions behave
:See [[Question behaviours]].

;Each attempt builds on the last (available by clicking "Show more")
:If multiple attempts are allowed and this setting is set to Yes, then each new attempt contains the results of the previous attempt. This allows the student on the new attempt to concentrate on just those questions that were answered incorrectly on the previous attempt. If this option is chosen then each attempt by a particular student uses the same questions in the same order, independent of randomization settings. To show a fresh quiz on every attempt, select No for this setting.

==Review options==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizreview.png|thumb|600px|Review options expanded]]
|}

This section controls what information students will be shown when they review their past attempts at the quiz, and during the attempt in adaptive mode. It is a matrix with check boxes.

The various pieces of information that can be controlled are:
; The attempt: Will show how the student responded to each question.
; Whether correct: Displays whether the students response to each question is correct or incorrect.
; Marks: Reveals the marks awarded to the student and the grade for the quiz.
; Specific feedback: Will show the feedback for the response to the answer as set when adding the question to the quiz. Each response to a question can have feedback for both correct and incorrect answers.
; General feedback: Displays the general feedback for the whole question as set when adding the question to the quiz. You can use the general feedback to give students some background to what knowledge the question was testing.
; Right answer: Reveals the correct answer to each question, whether the student answered correctly or not (See note below).
; Overall feedback: Displays feedback for the entire quiz as set in the quiz settings (See note below).

For each of the above items, you can determine the timeframe when the students will see them:
; During the attempt : is only available when ''‘How questions behave’'' has been set to ''‘Immediate feedback’'', ''‘Immediate feedback with CBM’'' and ''‘Interactive with multiple tries’''. If set to one of these options then a ''‘Check’'' button will appear below the answer and when clicked the student will submit that response and then receive immediate feedback.
; Immediately after the attempt : means within 2 minutes of the student clicking "submit all and finish".
; Later, while the quiz is still open : means after 2 minutes, but before the close date (if the quiz does not have a close date, this phase never ends).
; After the quiz is closed : means what it says (you never get here for quizzes without a close date).

:''Tip:'' Checking any of the boxes in the timeframe row, will reveal the test to the student. For example, to allow students to see their quiz immediately after taking it but not later, make sure none of the boxes in "Later" or "After" rows are checked. The student will be able to see their grade but not get into the quiz.

Note: Currently, the Answers display is a bit inconsistent between different question types. For example, the matching question type shows students which of their responses are correct, but does not tell them the right answer for the ones they got wrong. The short answer and multiple choices question types do tell the student what the correct answer is.

Users with the capability 'View hidden grades' [[Capabilities/moodle/grade:viewhidden|moodle/grade:viewhidden]] (typically teachers and administrators) are not affected by these settings and will always by able to review all information about a student's attempt at any time.

In your list of review options, you must have 'The attempt' (the first option in the lists) selected before you can enable the options to show 'Whether correct', 'Specific feedback', 'General feedback', and 'Right answer'. If you choose not to let the students review the attempt, your only options are to display 'Marks' and 'Overall feedback'.

==Appearance==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizappearance.png|thumb|470px|Display settings expanded]]
|}

:Show the user's picture
It is now possible, when displaying the user's profile picture for proctoring purposes, to choose whether a large image or thumbnail will be displayed.

;Decimal places in grades
:This option determines how many digits will be shown after the decimal separator (see [[dev:Translation_langconfig|langconfig]] ) when the grade is displayed. A setting of 0 for example means that the grades are displayed as integers. This setting is only used for the display of grades, not for the display or marking of answers.

==Extra restrictions on attempts==
(These settings are collapsed by default and are available by clicking "Show more")
{|
|[[File:quizextrarestrictions.png|thumb|470px|Extra restrictions settings expanded]]
|}

;Require password
:This field is optional.

:If you specify a password in here then participants must enter the same password before they are allowed to make an attempt on the quiz. This is useful to give only a selected group of students access to the quiz.

;Require network address
:This field is optional.

:You can restrict access for a quiz to particular subnets on the LAN or Internet by specifying a comma-separated list of partial or full IP address numbers. This is especially useful for a proctored (invigilated) quiz, where you want to be sure that only people in a certain room are able to access the quiz. For example: 192.168. , 231.54.211.0/20, 231.3.56.211

:There are three types of numbers you can use (you can not use text based domain names like example.com):

# Full IP addresses, such as 192.168.10.1 which will match a single computer (or proxy).
# Partial addresses, such as 192.168 which will match anything starting with those numbers.
# CIDR notation, such as 231.54.211.0/20 which allows you to specify more detailed subnets.

:Spaces are ignored.

;Enforced delay between attempts
:These two fields are optional.

:You can set a time (from seconds to weeks) between the first and second attempt of a quiz. You can also (or alternatively) set a time from seconds to weeks for subsequent attempts after the second attempt. Thus, you might allow a student to take the quiz twice immediately with no delay, but if they want to improve their score with a third attempt, they are forced to wait a week and use the time for extra revision.

;Browser security
:This is by default an advanced field, visible by clicking "Show advanced".
:The options in this section offer various ways to try to restrict how students may try to 'cheat' while attempting a quiz. However, this is not a simple issue, and what in one situation is considered 'cheating' may, in another situation, just be effective use of information technology. (For example, the ability to quickly find answers using a search engine.)

::Note also that this is not just at problem of technology with a technical solution. Cheating has been going on since long before computers, and while computers make certain actions, like copy and paste, easier, they also make it easier for teachers to detect cheating - for example using the quiz reports. The options provided here are not fool-proof, and while they do make some forms of cheating harder for students, they also make it more inconvenient for students to attempt the quizzes, and they are not fool-proof.

:'''Full screen pop-up with some JavaScript security'''

:There is a limit to what the quiz, which runs on a web server, can do to restrict what the student sitting at their computer can do while attempting the quiz. However, this option does what is possible:

:* The quiz will only start if the student has a JavaScript-enabled web-browser.
:* The quiz appears in a fullscreen popup window that covers all the other windows and has no course navigation controls.

{|
|[[File:seb24.png|thumb|465px|Student view of quiz question with full screen popup. (Click to see enlarged)]]
|}
:* The students are prevented, as far as is possible, from using facilities like copy and paste.
:* This setting does not work well with the MyMobile theme for mobile devices included in the standard installation. In particular, quiz time limits do not function correctly (MDL-32047).

:'''Require the use of Safe Exam Browser'''

:This option will only appear if your administrator has enabled it in ''Settings > Site administration > Development > Experimental > Experimental settings''.

:[[Safe exam browser|Safe Exam Browser]] is a customised web browser that must be downloaded and installed on the computer that the student uses to attempt the quiz. It restricts student use more effectively than a pop up window option. Features include full screen, without web navigation options, shortcut keys including copy and paste are disabled and of course surfing the web during an exam.

==Overall feedback==
(These setttings are collapsed by default)
{|
|[[File:quizoverallfeedback.png|thumb|448px|Overall feedback settings expanded]]
|}
Overall feedback is shown to a student after they have completed an attempt at the quiz. The text that is shown can depend on the grade the student got. Click "Show editing tools" to display the rich text editor, and drag the bottom right of the text box out to expand it.

For example, if you entered:

:Grade boundary: 100%
:Feedback: "Well done"
:Grade boundary: 40%
:Feedback: "Please study this week's work again"
:Grade boundary: 0%

Then students who score between 100% and 40% will see the "Well done" message, and those who score between 39.99% and 0% will see "Please study this week's work again". That is, the grade boundaries define ranges of grades, and each feedback string is displayed to scores within the appropriate range.

Grade boundaries can be specified either as a percentage, for example "31.41%", or as a number, for example "7". If your quiz is out of 10 marks, a grade boundary of 7 means 7/10 or better.

Note that the maximum and minimum grade boundaries (100% and 0%) are set automatically.

You can set as many or as few grade boundaries as you wish. The form allows you up to 5 ranges at first, but you can add more by clicking the "Add 3 fields to form" button underneath.

If you're getting confusing error messages about a boundary being out of sequence (when it's obviously *in* sequence), or "boundaries must be between 0% and 100%" (and they are) -- check that the Maximum Grade for this quiz is set to something greater than zero.
==Outcomes==
This setting will only appear if [[Outcomes]] have been enabled by the administrator and are used in the course. See [[Outcomes]] for how to remove an outcome once it has been added to a quiz.

==Common module settings==
(These settings are collapsed by default)
See [[Common module settings]]

==Restrict access/Activity completion==
(These settings are collapsed by default)

The Restrict access and Activity completion settings are visible if [[Conditional activities]] and [[Activity completion]] have been enabled in the site and the course.
===Quiz completion===

The following automatic activity completion conditions apply to the quiz:

:''Require view'' - the student clicks on the quiz to view it
:''Require grade'' - the student obtains a grade

[[File:quizpassinggrade.png|thumb|500px|center]]

{{New features}}
:''Require a passing grade'' - a 'Grade to pass' is specified for the quiz in the gradebook.
:''All available attempts completed'' - a certain number of attempts were allowed on the quiz and the student has completed them all.

==Group and User overrides==

[[File:overridesquiz.png]]

Dates, timing and number of allowed attempts may be changed for individual users or groups by following the links ''Group Overrides'' or ''User Overrides'' in the Quiz Administration settings block.

===Group overrides===
To change a quiz setting for a particular group, click the "add group override" button in ''Quiz Administration>Group overrides'', make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

===User overrides===
To change a quiz setting for a particular user or users, click the "add user override"button in ''Quiz Administration>Group overrides'', make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

[[Image:groupuseroverride.png|groupuseroverride.png]]

==Site administration settings==

The quiz module has additional settings which may be changed by an administrator in ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Quiz''.

;Autosave period
:If enabled, student responses will be saved every minute/two minutes/five minutes (according to selection) This is useful so that students don't lose work but does increase the load on the server.

How questions behave can be configured in ''Administration>Site administration>Plugins>Question behaviours>Manage question
behaviours''

==See also==
*[http://youtu.be/MCLGZTpfG60 Moodle 2.x Quiz] MoodleBites video on YouTube

[[fr:Ajouter/modifier un test]]
[[de:Test konfigurieren]]
[[es:Configuraciones del examen]]

Quiz settings

2012-03-15T14:45:52Z

Worfds91: Adding a note concerning MDL-32047

{{Quiz}}
Creating a new quiz is a two-step process. In the first step, you create the quiz activity and set its options which specify the rules for interacting with the quiz. In the second step you add questions to the quiz.
This page describes the options you can set for the quiz activity. The page [[Building Quiz]] describes how to set up the questions for the quiz.

'''Quiz options'''
There are a large number of options and your administrator should already have chosen the default values for most of them so that you will not have to modify them for the type of quiz that you use most often. The administrator may also have classified some of the settings as 'advanced' which means that they will be hidden from the set-up screen by default. This can help to keep the screen simpler. You can turn on the display of these advanced options by clicking on the '''Show advanced settings''' button. They will then remain visible until you click on '''Hide advanced settings'''.

==Quiz administration==
When you first set up your quiz from ''Add an activity > Quiz'', you will get the following settings, (which can also be changed later in the Edit Settings link of the Quiz administration settings block)

===General===
;Name
:This is the standard name field. This name will appear on the home page of the course, navigation menu and other places which will show or provide links to this quiz.

;Introduction
:Write an introduction for the quiz. A student will see the introduction immediately after clicking on the quiz name. The student will see this description before they click on the "Attempt quiz" link and thus before the quiz timer is started (if used). This is a good place to include any special instructions for taking the quiz like the number of attempts allowed, time limit or scoring rules.
{{New features}}
;'''Display description on course page'''
:You can choose to make the description visible with the activity on the course page.

;Open the quiz
:You can specify times when the quiz is accessible for people to make attempts. Before the opening time the quiz will be unavailable to students. They will be able to view the quiz introduction but will not be able to view the questions.

Note: You can make the quiz available at different times for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Adminstration settings block.

;Close the quiz
:After the closing time, the students will not be able to start new attempts. Answers that the student submits after the quiz closing date will be saved but they will not be marked.

: Even after the quiz has closed students will still be able to see the quiz description and review their attempts. What exactly they will see depends on the settings you choose for review options (see below).

Note: The quiz closing time is the last access time AND the time when the quiz must be completed. If a time limit is set, regardless of whether there is time left on the timer, the quiz closing time determines when a student's attempt ends.

;Time limit
:By default, quizzes do not have a time limit, which allows students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you do specify a time limit, several things are done to try and ensure that quizzes are completed within that time:

# JavaScript support in the browser becomes mandatory - this allows the timer to work correctly.
# A floating timer window is shown with a countdown
# When the timer has run out, the quiz is submitted automatically with whatever answers have been filled in so far
# If a student manages to cheat and goes over the allotted time, no marks are awarded for any answers entered after the time ran out

Note: If a quiz closing time is set, a student's attempt will end on or before this time, regardless of whether there is time left on the timer. Thus, if a quiz closing time is set together with a time limit of say 3 hours, it is recommended that students are informed that they must begin their quiz attempt at least 3 hours before the quiz closing time.

Note: You can make the quiz available last a different period of time for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block (see below).

;Attempts allowed
:Students may be allowed to have multiple attempts at a quiz. This can help make the process of taking the quiz more of an educational activity rather than simply an assessment. If the quiz is randomized then the student will get a new version for each attempt. This is useful for practice purposes.

Note: You can change the allowed number of attempts for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block.

;Grading method
:When multiple attempts are allowed, there are different ways you can use the grades to calculate the student's final grade for the quiz.
* Highest grade - the final grade is the highest (best) grade in any attempt
* Average grade - the final grade is the average (simple mean) grade of all attempts
* First grade - the final grade is the grade earned on the first attempt (other attempts are ignored)
* Last grade - the final grade is the grade earned on the most recent attempt only

===Layout===

;Question order
:If 'Shuffled randomly' is selected, then the order of questions in the quiz will be randomly shuffled each time a student starts a new attempt at the quiz. The intention is to make it a little harder for students to copy from each other.

;New page
:For longer quizzes it makes sense to stretch the quiz over several pages by limiting the number of questions per page. When adding questions to the quiz, page breaks will automatically be inserted according to the setting you choose here. However, you will also be able to move page breaks around by hand later on the editing page.
:'''Note that changing this setting has no effect on questions you have already added to the quiz'''. The setting will only apply to questions you add subsequently. To change the page breaks in an existing quiz, you need to go to the quiz editing screen, tick the 'Show page breaks' checkbox, then use the repaginate control.

===Question behaviour===

;How questions behave
* Deferred feedback - Students must enter an answer to each question and then submit the entire quiz, before anything is graded or they get any feedback.
* Adaptive mode and Adaptive mode (no penalties) - Allows students to have multiple attempts at the question before moving on to the next question. The question can adapt itself to the student's answer, for example by giving some hints before asking the student to try again.
*Manual grading - Used for essay questions (irrespective of what the quiz is set to) but you can now choose to have every question in the quiz manually graded, if you wish.
*Interactive mode - After submitting one answer, and reading the feedback, the student has to click a 'Try again' button before they can try a new response. Once the student has got the question right, they can no longer change their response. Once the student has got the question wrong too many times, they are just graded wrong (or partially correct) and get shown the feedback and can no longer change their answer. There can be different feedback after each try the student makes.
*Immediate feedback - Similar to interactive mode in that the student can submit their response immediately during the quiz attempt, and get it graded. However, they can only submit one response, they cannot change it later.
*Deferred feedback or Immediate feedback with Certainty-based marking (CBM) - With CBM, the student does not only answer the question, but they also indicate how sure they are they got the question right. The grading is adjusted by the choice of certainty, so that students have to reflect honestly on their own level of knowledge in order to get the best mark.

;Each attempt builds on the last
:If multiple attempts are allowed and this setting is set to Yes, then each new attempt contains the results of the previous attempt. This allows the student on the new attempt to concentrate on just those questions that were answered incorrectly on the previous attempt. If this option is chosen then each attempt by a particular student uses the same questions in the same order, independent of randomization settings. To show a fresh quiz on every attempt, select No for this setting.

===Review options===

This section controls what information students will be shown when they review their past attempts at the quiz, and during the attempt in adaptive mode. It is a maxtrix with check boxes.

The various pieces of information that can be controlled are:
; The attempt: Will show how the student responded to each question.
; Whether correct: Displays whether the students response to each question is correct or incorrect.
; Marks: Reveals the marks awarded to the student and the grade for the quiz.
; Specific feedback: Will show the feedback for the response to the answer as set when adding the question to the quiz. Each response to a question can have feedback for both correct and incorrect answers.
; General feedback: Displays the general feedback for the whole question as set when adding the question to the quiz. You can use the general feedback to give students some background to what knowledge the question was testing.
; Right answer: Reveals the correct answer to each question, whether the student answered correctly or not (See note below).
; Overall feedback: Displays feedback for the entire quiz as set in the quiz settings (See note below).

For each of the above items, you can determine the timeframe when the students will see them:
; During the attempt : is only available when ''‘How questions behave’'' has been set to ''‘Immediate feedback’'', ''‘Immediate feedback with CBM’'' and ''‘Interactive with multiple tries’''. If set to one of these options then a ''‘Check’'' button will appear below the answer and when clicked the student will submit that response and then receive immediate feedback.
; Immediately after the attempt : means within 2 minutes of the student clicking "submit all and finish".
; Later, while the quiz is still open : means after 2 minutes, but before the close date (if the quiz does not have a close date, this phase never ends).
; After the quiz is closed : means what it says (you never get here for quizzes without a close date).

:''Tip:'' Checking any of the boxes in the timeframe row, will reveal the test to the student. For example, to allow students to see their quiz immediately after taking it but not later, make sure none of the boxes in "Later" or "After" rows are checked. The student will be able to see their grade but not get into the quiz.

Note: Currently, the Answers display is a bit inconsistent between different question types. For example, the matching question type shows students which of their responses are correct, but does not tell them the right answer for the ones they got wrong. The short answer and multiple choices question types do tell the student what the correct answer is.

Users with the capability 'View hidden grades' [[Capabilities/moodle/grade:viewhidden|moodle/grade:viewhidden]] (typically teachers and administrators) are not affected by these settings and will always by able to review all information about a student's attempt at any time.

In your list of review options, you must have 'The attempt' (the first option in the lists) selected before you can enable the options to show 'Whether correct', 'Specific feedback', 'General feedback', and 'Right answer'. If you choose not to let the students review the attempt, your only options are to display 'Marks' and 'Overall feedback'.

===Display===

;Decimal places in grades
:This option determines how many digits will be shown after the decimal point when the grade is displayed. A setting of 0 for example means that the grades are displayed as integers. This setting is only used for the display of grades, not for the display or marking of answers.

===Extra restrictions on attempts===

;Require password
:This field is optional.

:If you specify a password in here then participants must enter the same password before they are allowed to make an attempt on the quiz. This is useful to give only a selected group of students access to the quiz.

;Require network address
:This field is optional.

:You can restrict access for a quiz to particular subnets on the LAN or Internet by specifying a comma-separated list of partial or full IP address numbers. This is especially useful for a proctored (invigilated) quiz, where you want to be sure that only people in a certain room are able to access the quiz. For example: 192.168. , 231.54.211.0/20, 231.3.56.211

:There are three types of numbers you can use (you can not use text based domain names like example.com):

# Full IP addresses, such as 192.168.10.1 which will match a single computer (or proxy).
# Partial addresses, such as 192.168 which will match anything starting with those numbers.
# CIDR notation, such as 231.54.211.0/20 which allows you to specify more detailed subnets.

:Spaces are ignored.

;Browser security
:The options in this section offer various ways to try to restrict how students may try to 'cheat' while attempting a quiz. However, this is not a simple issue, and what in one situation is considered 'cheating' may, in another situation, just be effective use of information technology. (For example, the ability to quickly find answers using a search engine.)

::Note also that this is not just at problem of technology with a technical solution. Cheating has been going on since long before computers, and while computers make certain actions, like copy and paste, easier, they also make it easier for teachers to detect cheating - for example using the quiz reports. The options provided here are not fool-proof, and while they do make some forms of cheating harder for students, they also make it more inconvenient for students to attempt the quizzes, and they are not fool-proof.

:'''Full screen pop-up with some JavaScript security'''

:There is a limit to what the quiz, which runs on a web server, can do to restrict what the student sitting at their computer can do while attempting the quiz. However, this option does what is possible:

:* The quiz will only start if the student has a JavaScript-enabled web-browser.
:* The quiz appears in a fullscreen popup window that covers all the other windows and has no navigation controls.
:* The students are prevented, as far as is possible, from using facilities like copy and paste.
:* This setting does not work well with the MyMobile theme for mobile devices included in the standard installation. In particular, quiz time limits do not function correctly (MDL-32047).

:'''Require the use of Safe Exam Browser'''

:This option will only appear if your administrator has enabled it in ''Settings > Site administration > Development > Experimental > Experimental settings''.

:[[Safe exam browser|Safe Exam Browser]] is a customised web browser that must be downloaded and installed on the computer that the student uses to attempt the quiz. It restricts student use more effectively than a pop up window option. Features include full screen, without web navigation options, shortcut keys including copy and paste are disabled and of course surfing the web during an exam.

===Overall feedback===
Overall feedback is shown to a student after they have completed an attempt at the quiz. The text that is shown can depend on the grade the student got.

For example, if you entered:

:Grade boundary: 100%
:Feedback: "Well done"
:Grade boundary: 40%
:Feedback: "Please study this week's work again"
:Grade boundary: 0%

Then students who score between 100% and 40% will see the "Well done" message, and those who score between 39.99% and 0% will see "Please study this week's work again". That is, the grade boundaries define ranges of grades, and each feedback string is displayed to scores within the appropriate range.

Grade boundaries can be specified either as a percentage, for example "31.41%", or as a number, for example "7". If your quiz is out of 10 marks, a grade boundary of 7 means 7/10 or better.

Note that the maximum and minimum grade boundaries (100% and 0%) are set automatically.

You can set as many or as few grade boundaries as you wish. The form allows you up to 5 ranges at first, but you can add more by clicking the "Add 3 fields to form" button underneath.

If you're getting confusing error messages about a boundary being out of sequence (when it's obviously *in* sequence), or "boundaries must be between 0% and 100%" (and they are) -- check that the Maximum Grade for this quiz is set to something greater than zero.

===Common module settings===
;Group mode
:Here you can choose whether the quiz should be organized by group. This only has an effect on the review screens of the teachers where it determines which groups of students they see.

;Visible to students
:Determines whether the quiz will be visible to students. If you are still in the process of setting up the quiz then it is highly advisable to leave this set to 'Hide'. Otherwise students might view or even attempt the quiz before it is tested and ready. This setting is common to all activities and can also be toggled by clicking on the eye icon behind the activity's name on the course page.

===Restrict access settings===
The [[Restrict_access_settings|Restrict access]] area becomes visible in Moodle activities and resource settings if [[Conditional_activities|Conditional Activities]] have been enabled.

==Group and User overrides==

[[File:overridesquiz.png]]

Dates, timing and number of allowed attempts may be changed for individual users or groups by following the links ''Group Overrides'' or ''User Overrides'' in the Quiz Administration settings block.

===Group overrides===
To change a quiz setting for a particular group, click the "add group override" button in ''Quiz Administration>Group overrides'', make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

===User overrides===
To change a quiz setting for a particular user or users, click the "add user override"button in ''Quiz Administration>Group overrides'', make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

[[Image:groupuseroverride.png|groupuseroverride.png]]

==Site administration settings==

The quiz module has additional settings which may be changed by an administrator in ''Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Quiz''.

The add a new quiz page may be simplified by selecting a number of options to be hidden by default and only displayed when users click the "Advanced settings" button.

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