Quiz: automatic grading. If you want to assess learners formatively or summatively
with questions for which there are specified answers
Moodle's very powerful quiz enables you to do this. We can only look at a few of
the features of the quiz in this screencast but it's worth exploring more
yourself and in the Moodle documentation. Quiz allows you to use different types
of questions not just multiple choice, and it also allows you to add, as here,
media, images, video, sound files as part of your questions. If we go to our course
and see how to add a quiz the first thing to note is that in the
More link from the gear menu we can access the Question bank. When a quiz is
created in Moodle you create the questions separately and store them
separately so they can be reused by you in a later quiz or by your colleague in
the same course in a different quiz. So if you wish, you could start by adding
your quiz questions to this Question back here and then make a quiz another
day. But we'll make our quiz straight away so
to do that we turn on the editing and then in the section
we want the quiz we click Add an activity or resource. This takes us to
Moodle's activity chooser and we scroll down to quiz. Quiz is an activity because
the learners are interacting with it. If we click it once we get information as
to how best to use the quiz and then we can click the Add button or if we
understand about the quiz and don't need to read the information, we simply click
the radio button twice and this will bring up the setup screen. The first
thing that we do is create the front page if you like of the quiz: the name
and the description which quiz learners will see, and if you want the description
to appear on the course page just tick the box Display description on course
page. There are many different settings in a quiz and it is worth exploring all
of them. If there's anything you're not sure of the ? help icon gives you extra
information. For now we're just going to click Save and display and we have a
blank quiz and what we need to do is to start adding some questions which we can
do by clicking the button Edit quiz or Edit quiz from the gear menu.
We then see Add and if we already have questions we could add a random question
to our quiz or a particular question from the question bank which we might
have added to earlier or colleague might have added to earlier, but we're starting
anew from nothing, so let's click to add a new question. We
are then presented with a list of question types to choose from and just
like with the activity chooser if we click the button next to the question
type we are presented on the right with some information as to what that
question type does and note that although most of these questions are
questions where you provide the answer, it is possible by choosing Essay to have
learners typing an essay which we would then manually have to grade.
Note also there is a Description question.
This isn't a question type as such; it's just a text editor into which we could
add an explanation, some instructions images, videos or sound. For the purposes
of this quiz I'm just going to add a multiple choice question. We are then
sent to the setup screen for this particular question. We have to give it a name
although the name doesn't appear in the quiz, but it's important because it's how
it would be recognized in the question bank in the future, particularly if we
have a lot of questions ourselves and perhaps shared with colleagues.
In the question text ,that is where we type the actual question, and then when
we scroll down what we see will depend on the question type but we will always be
able to add general feedback for any question and then in the answers because
it's multiple choice we have the first possible answer with the grade 'None'. We
add None if the question is wrong or a hundred percent if it's right,
however, there are, as you can see ,options in between.
We can give specific feedback for each individual answer and if we want to do
more than just write simple text we can use the icons in the text editor so
again we write our choices, choose the grade and we continue. When we click
Save Changes we have our first quiz question which we can preview by
clicking the magnifying glass icon. We then go on and continue adding
questions to our quiz. Finally looking at a quiz that's already
been made it's easy to change the order of the
questions by dragging them up or down, and to add or remove page breaks by
clicking on the icon, and we can divide our quiz up into sections as well.