Using Quiz

This page explains how students and teachers can use the Quiz activity and explores ways to make the most of it in your Moodle course.

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

Notice the Quiz navigation block. You can use it to jump to any question.

A flagged question is shown with a red triangle at the top right
Questions on the current page are shown with a thicker border
After viewing a description, it is shown with the bottom half grey
After saving an essay question, it is shown with the bottom half grey
A dependent question is shown in grey with a padlock icon

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.

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.

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

A correct answer is shown with the bottom half green with a white tick
A partially correct answer is shown with the bottom half orange with a white circle in it
A wrong answer is shown with the bottom half red
An essay question (requiring manual marking) is shown with the bottom half grey
A flagged question is shown with a red triangle at the top right

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

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:

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:

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:

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:

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"

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 Question creator role) to allow students to generate their own quiz questions for a practice question bank.

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