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Moodle 2 quiz tools

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Create a bank of questions

Click into Question Bank bottom of your settings block (a) Click Create a new question…(b)

Although there are lots of different types of questions, the format for setting them are very similar so once you have mastered one type you will find it easier to use the others.

1. HINT for naming questions I use a keyword for the topic EXAMPLE

HSQ1 = Health & Safety Q1

HSQ2 = Health & Safety Q 2

EDQ1= Equality & Diversity Q1

This makes is easy to select and group the questions for the into a quiz. 2 HINT for writing short answer questions You need to use simple phrasing for these types of questions and make sure you cover all possible correct answers. 3) HINT for editing an image to remove the labels. 1. Copy and paste your image into PowerPoint or Publisher.

2. Insert a rectangle, infill white no lines, resize to suit your needs and then copy and paste until you have

enough to cover the labels.

3. Select all—make sure you have highlighted all the boxes and then group all together.

4. Right mouse and save as a new image.

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b

Choose the type of question and hints for successful quizzes

Handy hints

for setting

questions

before

after

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Multiple choice questions

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2 1) Name your question 2) Add the question in this box 3/4) You can input ‘right’ or ‘wrong ‘ answers into the choice box and also give feedback for each answer if you wish. 5) Choose whether one or multiply answers allowed. 6) Enter 2 or 3 answers, selecting the correct answer to be grade 100 and the wrong answers 0. SAVE YOUR QUESTION

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Example

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1. Name your question.

2. Add the question in the box. (a)

3. Decide whether case sensitive. (b)

4. Type in all possible connotations of the answer (c ) - adding a wild card if you wish.

1. Name your question.

2. Add the main text in the box. (a) - in this example—”Match the capital cities to the countries”

3. Type in the country name as a question and add the answer in the box below for each of the options.

(b)

Short Answer questions

Matching questions

Example

Allows a response of one or a few answers that is graded by comparing against various model answers which may contain a wild card.

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The answer to each of a number of sub-questions must be selected from a list of possibilities

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These are the editing and viewing tools for

you to check your questions. Handy

hint

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Embedded answers (Cloze) questions consist of a passage of text (in Moodle format) that has various answers embedded within it, including multiple choice, short answers and numerical answers.

You will find using the Hot Potatoes Cloze option much quicker than the Moodle quiz option, and remember that Hot pots also go into the grade book.

However just in case you want to use Moodle here is how to do it. Do steps 1 and 2, then paste your text into the box. Remove the word you want to be a gap and in its place type in {1:SHORTANSWER:=your removed word} See in this example the words I have removed are All Hallows’ Evening.

PLEASE NOTE: You must use {} these brackets, it will not work if you use ()

Format The questions consist of a passage of text (that has various sub-questions embedded within it, including:

short answers (SHORTANSWER or SA or MW), case is unimportant,

short answers (SHORTANSWER_C or SAC or MWC), case must match,

numerical answers (NUMERICAL or NM),

multiple choice (MULTICHOICE or MC), represented as a dropdown menu in-line in the text

multiple choice (MULTICHOICE_V or MCV), represented a vertical column of radio buttons, or

multiple choice (MULTICHOICE_H or MCH), represented as a horizontal row of radio-buttons.

Here is a very simple example:

CLOZE questions

The structure of each cloze sub-question is identical:

{ start the cloze sub-question with a bracket (AltGr+7)

1 define a grade for each cloze by a number (optional). This is used for calculation of question grading.

:SHORTANSWER: define the type of cloze sub-question. Definition is bounded by ':'.

~ is a separator between answer options

= marks a correct answer

# marks the beginning of an (optional) feedback message

} close the cloze sub-question at the end with a bracket (AltGr+0)

Example

Questions of this type are very flexible but can only be created by entering text containing special codes that create embedded multi-choice, short answers and numerical questions.

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1. Name the question.

2. Type or drop text into the text box. Substitute removed text with [[1]], [[2]] etc. (a)

3. In the Choices boxes type in the removed words - matching then with the correct numbers in brackets. (b) Choose shuffle. (c )

1. Name the question. (a)

2. Type or drop in text into the text box. (a)

3. Select whether the correct answer is true or false (b)

4. SAVE YOUR CHANGES

Drag & drop questions (text)

Example

Missing words in some text are filled in using drag and drop.

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True or false questions A simple form of multiple choice questions with just the 2 choices—True or false.

Example

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WARNING this one is quite difficult and would

be mainly used where accuracy to a high degree is necessary.

1. Name the question.

2. Type in the question text. (a)

3. In the drop zone insert an image (remember you have to

save the image first before you can insert it. (b)

4. In the Marker menu, type in the labels names, select to shuffle the labels each time the

question is attempted. ( c)

5. Scroll back up to the Drop zone and refresh preview, you will see that your image has been

put into a grid. (d) Add your markers to the drop zones. (e) You now need to type in the co-

ordinates for each of the labels in this format where x is the horizontal axis and y is the vertical.

(f) The figure at the end is the degree of accuracy you want your students to add the labels so

it can vary from 10– 100 depending on the quality of the image and how many labels they have

to place—example: x,y;20 ()

The circle option here seems to

work better than the rectangle

option.

Drag & drop questions (marker

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Example

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Markers are dragged and dropped onto a background image.

It is a good idea to edit your image before you use it for your quiz. You need to ensure that there is enough white space around the image to accommodate the labels. If the image is not surrounded by white space the labels are viewed as overlapping and it is therefore difficult for the students to place them accurately. Use the snipping tool to create space around your im-age and then resave the image.

Handy

hint

Handy

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1. Name the question.

2. Type in the question text. (a).

3. Scroll down to the Drop Zone and choose an image file (b)

4. Add the text for each of your labels (c ) - in this example

drop zone 1 has mouse as the text, drop zone 2 has speaker

etc. (c )

5. Scroll down to draggable items, select draggable text and assign it to the correct

drop zone. (d)

6. Group options: (e )if you want the students to have a hint of where the labels go

you can select to put each word in a different ‘group’ this

means that the label and the placeholder for that label will

be the same colour.

To make the question more difficult select to put all the

labels in group 1 and all the labels will have the same colour

background.

7. Scroll back up to Drop zone and refresh preview. You will see that moodle has generated your

labels for you.

8. Finally step is to drag each label to the correct position—(f) moodle will calculate the co-

ordinates for you (g)

SAVE YOUR CHANGES

Drag & drop questions (onto image

Example

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Images or text labels are dragged and dropped into drop zones on a background image.

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1. Name the question.

2. Type or copy and paste text into the question text box. (a)

3. Substitute removed text with [[1]], [[2]] etc where 1 represents the first word removed, 2 the

second etc. (b).

4. Go to the choices menu and type in the removed words to correspond with their number. (c )

PLEASE NOTE: you must select group 1 if you want

all your words to appear in the drop down option. (d)

If you have chosen a long piece of text you may want to

add another set of options in the drop down menu and

assign them to group 2.

4. You can add more blank choices if you have chosen a long piece of text.

5. SAVE YOUR CHANGES.

Missing Words questions Missing words in some text are filled in using drop down menus

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was

white as snow.

And everywhere that Mary went the

lamb was sure to go.

It followed her to school one day, it

was against the rules.

It made the children laugh and play to

see a lamb at school.

Example

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1. Go to your Moodle classroom and make sure you have editing on.

2. Go to Activity and select Quiz.

3. We are now going to do STEP 1, ie name the quiz. You also have the option to write a description but this is not necessary.

Only you can decide what rules you wish to apply to your quiz, so you will need to experiment to find what rules best suit you and your learners needs.

There are some helpful hints on the next page.

Create a quiz using the moodle quiz tool Creating a new quiz is a two-step process. STEP 1 You create the quiz activity, give it a name and set its options which specify the rules for interacting with the quiz. STEP 2 You will then edit the quiz to add questions to it.

It is important to put a start and end date for the quiz. Students will only be able to access the quiz during the specified times.

Setting the rules for your quiz

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Time limit allows you to decide how long you want the quiz to last.

You can decide how many questions you want on a quiz page.

Shuffle questions allow you to change the order of questions for each time the student attempts the quiz.

Shuffle answers allow you to change the order of answers for multiple-choice questions.

Attempts allowed enable you to set a number of tries a student can have on a quiz.

Adaptive mode and Apply penalties - If a quiz is run in adaptive mode then a student is allowed to try again after a wrong response. In this case you may want to impose a penalty for each wrong response to be subtracted from the final mark for the question.

Decimal points shows the number of decimals to be shown in the grade of every attempt.

This option controls whether and when students will be able to review past attempts of this quiz.

The "secure" window provides a little more security for quizzes by restricting some of the things that students can do with their browsers. Require password and Require network address are optional.

Click on the ? highlighted in yellow to get more information on the functions. When you have completed the settings for the quiz – Save changes.

Setting the rules for your quiz

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We are now going to do STEP 2 ie Edit and add questions to the question bank. 1. Return to your Moodle classroom and click on quizzes in the Activity

menu. (a) 2. Select the quiz you have just named and click to edit quiz. (b)

3. Select the questions you want to add by ticking the boxes on the left of the question (c ), click add to quiz (d).

4. You can reorder the questions by clicking on the up/down arrows (e ) 5. When you are happy with your quiz click SAVE (f)

Please note: If you cannot see the activities menu, click on add blocks and select Activities.

Add questions to your new quiz

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The learner’s view of the quiz

The learner clicks into the quiz and then clicks Attempt quiz now. The layout of the quiz may vary depending on the theme of your classroom, but the screen will have a navigation menu (a), a question, and a block listing the options for that question. (b) If it is a timed question you will need to tell your learners that they can opt to flag a question, to return to it later if they feel they are spending too much time on it. You will see in (b) that question 4 has a small triangle top right corner that indicates to the learner that they have flagged up that question. (c )

On completion of the quiz the learner clicks finish attempt (d), which will be followed by screen (e ), they must click Submit all and finish. The final message the learner sees is the confirmation screen, they must click on Submit all and finish.

OR If they notice that they have not returned to the question they flagged they can cancel the

confirmation and return to complete the question.

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The learners can see a summary of their attempt, including the time taken to complete the quiz, the date and their final score. (a) The Quiz navigation menu shows them their correct answers in green, the incorrect answers in red, those

questions marked partially correct are yellow. (b) The learner can review their attempt at the quiz and work their way through each of the questions to see where they went wrong. (c) On questions where no attempts have been made if they hover over the x areas the correct answers will be displayed. (d)

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Examples of quizzes You can see in this example that the teacher has designed this quiz to be taken in a secure window. They have selected to have a certain number of questions on each page

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Examples of quiz results in the grade book

Example of an individual user report

When you have set up your quizzes Moodle generates a grading system, see below. Each of the columns relates to a different quiz. Each of the rows relates to an individual learner. The overall class average is seen at the bottom of the page.