This refers to Moodle 3.2 from September 2017 onward
There are many question types in Moodle quiz. A key feature is that it allows the use of MathJax for Mathematical notation in questions, student answers and feedback.
If you are creating online summative exams then Rogo should be used. It is more secure than Moodle quiz and has features that are used to support the full lifecycle of a summative exam. We shall also be developing Rogo to meet University needs whereas Moodle quiz shall remain as you see it now.
- Open/Close the quiz: These dates control when the quiz can be accessed and completed by the students. The quiz is open indefinitely as default. To change the dates and times, click the check box next to ‘Enable’.
- Time limit: By default, the time limit is off. If enabled the the student would have X minutes to complete it once they’ve accessed it.
- When time expires: If ‘Time limit’ or ‘Close the quiz’ have been enabled, ‘When time expires’ determines what happens if a student is still in the quiz, i.e. submits as normal once finished, an extra X min to complete, or no submission.
- Submission grace period: This is where you set the ‘extra time’ a student is allowed to finish the quiz once the ‘Close the quiz’ or ‘Time limit’ has passed.
- Grade category relates to categories you create in the grade book (Grades). These are rarely used.
- Grade to pass: This setting determines the minimum grade required to pass. The value is used in activity and module completion, and in the gradebook.
- Attempts allowed: The default number of attempts is ‘unlimited’. You can restrict attempts up to 10.
- Grading method is useful if e.g. the quiz is formative, students can access it an unlimited number of times, but you want their first attempt to be recorded so you can gauge students’ understanding of a topic.
- New Page: As you create and add questions in the edit screen, they form pages. The number of questions that appear on those pages is determined here. If you want it to vary, you can manually change this on a page-by-page basis in the edit screen.
- Navigation method: ‘Free’ navigation means students can jump between pages. ‘Sequential’ means they are restricted to the order in which the pages have been created.
- Shuffle within questions: As well as being able to shuffle the questions, you can also shuffle the responses within the questions. If most of your responses are multiple choice, this is a good way to mix it up for each student.
- How questions behave: ‘Deferred feedback’ and ‘immediate feedback’ are the most commonly used options. ‘Adaptive mode’ allows students to access hints you have set-up for each question. This require you to use ‘Whether correct’ under the ‘During attempt’ options within the Review options section. ‘Deferred feedback’ means students will only see the feedback you’ve added for each question once the quiz has finished. ‘Immediate feedback’ enables you to use the ‘Immediately after the attempt’ option within the Review options section, so that students see feedback after they answer each question. ‘CBM’ (certainty-based marking) enables an option within questions whereby students state how confident they are that they’ve got the question right. This impacts the scoring for each question.
- During the attempt: These options are enabled when ‘Adaptive mode’ or ‘Immediate feedback’ have been selected in the Question behaviour section.
- Later, while the quiz is still open: Even if these options are ticked, whether anything shows up or not depends on whether you’ve written in the relevant feedback field within each question.
- In the Later section, Right answer means that students will see what the correct answer was even if they get it wrong. If you’re using e.g. ‘highest grade’ or ‘last attempt’ (set in Grade), I suggest you untick that option.
- Decimal places in grades: The default is two decimal places. If you only want whole numbers to show (rounded up/down) choose zero. The same applies to marks awarded per question.
- Require password: Using a password might be useful if you want to restrict access to the quiz beyond e.g. Groups and Groupings or only to students that attended the lecture (give the password out at the lecture).
- Require network address: Limits access to the quiz to people accessing it from a certain location (using full or partial IP address numbers)
- Enforced delay between later attempts: If you have enabled students to attempt the quiz more than once, setting a time lapse between attempts could be useful. E.g. if you want to test their memory delay it by a couple of days or a week; if you are using it as a revision tool, do not enable a delay or make it a short delay, e.g. 5 mins.
The Overall feedback is received at the end of the quiz. If you are providing overall feedback, it is advisable to enter various boundaries. The boundaries control which piece of feedback the student received. In this example, students that achieve 50% or above will receive the top feedback. Students that achieve 49.99% or less will receive the bottom piece of feedback.
The following other resources are also relevant to this topic:
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