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 from
the gear menu and then in thesection 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.