Overview
The quiz activity enables a teacher to create quizzes comprising questions of various types, including multiple choice, matching, short-answer and numerical.
The teacher can allow the quiz to be attempted multiple times, with the questions shuffled or randomly selected from the question bank. A time limit may be set.
Each attempt is marked automatically, with the exception of essay questions, and the grade is recorded in the gradebook.
The teacher can choose when and if hints, feedback and correct answers are shown to students.
Quizzes may be used
As course exams
As mini tests for reading assignments or at the end of a topic
As exam practice using questions from past exams
To deliver immediate feedback about performance
- For self-assessment
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Adding a quiz
Follow the steps given below to add a quiz.
- Turn on editing in your course by clicking the Turn on editing button in the upper right or the Turn on editing link in the Administration block on the left.
- Click the Add an activity or resource link in the section where you want the quiz to appear.
- Click Quiz in the Add an activity or resource window and then click the Add button.
Adding questions
The first time you create a quiz, you can click the Edit quiz button in the center of the screen to start adding questions. After you have added at least one question, you can get to the question-adding screen by clicking the Edit quiz link in the Administration block of the quiz.
Follow the steps given below to add questions to a quiz.
- Click the Add a question button to create a new question.
- Choose your desired question type from the Choose a question type to add window, then click the Next button.
- Every question requires a Question name and the Question text.
- The Question name is for your own reference and will not be shown to students. The Question textis the prompt of the question to which students respond.
- Enter appropriate answers in the “Answers” Answers section of the question.
- Indicate which answer is correct by setting the “Grade” for that answer to be 100%. Use the “Grade” setting to indicate partially correct alternate answers, when applicable.
- Click Save changes when you are finished.
Question behavior
The Question behavior section of the Quiz settings page is where you define how you want the questions in this quiz to behave. The question behavior types are available in the How questions behave.
- Deferred Feedback - Students are not shown any feedback on their question attempts until they have completely finished the quiz.
- Immediate Feedback - Students are able to check their answers during the quiz and receive feedback as defined in the Review options settings.
- Adaptive mode - Students are allowed to try questions as many times as they need to receiving feedback as defined in the Review options settings. They incur penalties for each try.
- Adaptive mode (no penalties) - Students are allowed to try questions as many times as they need to while receiving feedback as defined in the Review options settings. No penalties are applied.
- Interactive with multiple tries - Students are allowed multiple tries on questions, the number of tries is based on the number of Hints configured in the questions themselves.
- Deferred Feedback with CBM - Students are not shown any feedback on their question attempts until they have completely finished the quiz. Each question includes Certainty-Based Marking (see below).
- Immediate Feedback with CBM - Students are able to check their answers during the quiz and receive feedback as defined in the Review options settings.Each question includes Certainty-Based Marking (see below).
Certainty-Based Marking (CBM)
Certainty-Based Marking (CBM) prompts students to indicate their confidence in their answer to each question. Their confidence ratings also factor into their quiz scores, as well.
Review and Feedback Options
The Moodle quiz activity may be used in multiple ways: as a study aid, a formative or summative assessment. The way in which the tool functions depends on how you setup the review and feedback options.
Feedback Choices
Providing general and specific feedback can make the quiz a powerful teaching and learning tool.
- The attempt - Can the student view the report of their attempt after they complete the quiz?
- Whether correct - Does the student get informed if their answer is correct or not?
- Marks - Does the student see how many points they earned for the question attempted?
- Specific feedback - Does the student see customized feedback based on the answer they submitted as configured in the question item?
- General feedback - Does the student see customized general feedback as configured in the question item?
- Right answer - Does the student see the correct answer after they try a question?
- Overall feedback - Does the student see the overall feedback configured in the quiz settings?
Review Options
The Review options section gives you control over exactly what feedback the students receives and when.
There are four different timings to choose from in the Review options area:
- During the attempt - What does the student see while they are in the middle of taking the quiz?
- Immediately after the attempt - What does the student see right after they complete their quiz attempt?
- Later, while the quiz is still open - What does the student see two minutes after completing their quiz attempt?
- After the quiz is closed - What does the student see once the quiz has been closed?
Note: If you want to use a quiz as a study aid (providing immediate feedback to students about their responses at all points throughout the quiz), select all options.
