Random select answers question type

Installing this question type

Follow the generic Installing plugins documentation.

The Random select answers question type

This question type is similar to the core Multiple Choice question type with the "multiple answers are allowed" option ON, but it adopts the same grading system as the OU multiple response question type. Its main added feature is that correct and incorrect answers are selected from a "pool" of such answers and displayed to the student at runtime.

Because most of the question setup instructions are the same as or very similar to the instructions provided for the two question types mentioned above, the following instructions are only provided for its distinctive features.

Question set-up

Editing screen with specific fields circled in red

Fill in the following fields as usual

Question name; Question text; Default mark; General feedback; (ID number); Shuffle the choices?; Number the choices?; Show standard instruction.

Field Separator to be used for the right answers display

This separator will be used to separate the right answers displayed to the student (if that review option is selected in the Quiz settings).

• The comma is the default option, to be used for short right answers.
• Use the blank space if the (ordered) right answers are single words making up a sentence.
• Use the line break for longer right answers making a better display on separate lines.

Field Number of correct and incorrect answers

In this field you can select the "display mode" which will determine how many correct and incorrect answers will be displayed to the student at runtime.

IMPORTANT.- When you create a new question, you need to click the "Save changes and continue editing" button in order for those menu items to become active.

Use all answers (default mode)

In this default mode the totality of the correct and incorrect answers will be displayed to the student. This mode is the normal mode of the the OU multiple response question type mentioned above.

The Manual selection mode

When you select this mode, 2 extra fields are displayed, which allow you to enter the exact number of the correct and incorrect answers which will be displayed to the student. The available numbers depend directly on the number of Correct & Incorrect Choices you have entered in the Answers fields below.

The Automatic random selection mode

If you select this mode, the number of correct & incorrect answers displayed to the student will be automatically and randomly selected at runtime. This means that---given a fairly large number of Choices---it's possible to generate a very large number of different questions in your quizzes.

Obviously there will always be at least one correct choice and one incorrect choice displayed to the student!