Having adjusted your quiz parameters and clicked Save and Display, you should arrive on the quiz page. (You can also access this by going to your course homepage and clicking on the quiz that you have just created.)
Click on the Questions tab to begin adding questions to your quiz.
Note that to change the basic parameters of the quiz (allotted time, feedback settings, grade calculations, etc.), you must navigate to the Settings tab (see the previous slide). But to edit the questions within the quiz, you need to navigate to the Questions tab.
From the Questions tab you can set the maximum grade for the quiz (i.e., how many points the quiz is out of). You can also decide whether the quiz questions (once you have added them) should be shuffled when students receive them.
To begin, click on Add. A drop-down menu will appear. Since we have not yet set up a question bank, we will simply add a new question, which we will now create.
A menu will appear offering many kinds of question formats. You can click on each one to see a brief description.
Multiple choice, True/False, Matching, Short answer, Fill-in-the blank, Essay (which must be graded manually), and other formats are available.
We will add a Multiple-choice question.
When you create a new question, Moodle will automatically save the question in your Quiz bank.
Your quiz bank is a collection of questions that you have created and which can be reused for other quizzes.
If you have already arranged quiz bank Categories, you can choose in which one you want to place your new question. Otherwise, you can select the default category that Moodle has created for the quiz or for the course.
A quiz bank corresponding to each of your courses will have been created by default.
Choosing an informative Question name helps you easily sort through your question bank later on when you need to make
a new quiz.
You could call your question “Trigonometry Question 5,” or “Plato’s theory of anamnesis,” or whatever will later help you easily locate the questions you need.
Fill in the question text. This is the question that will actually appear to your students.
You can set the Default mark for the question. Because we are adding this question both to our quiz and to our quiz bank, Moodle is asking how many marks this question should usually be worth. In this case, because it is a multiple choice question, perhaps it should only be worth 1 point. Other kinds of more elaborate questions might be worth more; or sometimes you might want to make all questions worth 2 or 3 points just so that the quiz total comes out to an easily divisible number. Whenever you borrow a question from the quiz bank, you will be able to change how many points it is worth for a given quiz.
In the General feedback section, you can add the feedback that every student will see (at whatever point you have determined in the quiz settings that they should receive the General feedback). You can add images to help memory and retention.
The General feedback can also tell students where to find the pertinent information if they got the question wrong. E.g., “See Lesson 8, Slide 4,” or “See The Fundamentals of Calculus, Ch. 2.”
The default setting for this type of question is that only one answer can be chosen by the student. In this case, we will keep the default setting, but there are many possibilities to explore in Moodle.
You have the option to Shuffle the order of the choices that the student receives, and you can choose how the choices are numbered.
Note: If you elect to shuffle the choices, make sure you do not use answers like “All of the above,” “None of the above,” or “A and C.” If the answers are shuffled, then these often will not make sense to the student.
For a multiple-choice question, create a selection of incorrect answers and one correct answer.
You can specify the Grade to be received for each correct and partially correct answer.
At least one of the choices must be worth 100%. You can make another partially correct answer worth, e.g., 50% of the grade.
The choice-specific feedback can be useful. You can say things like, “This was indeed discussed in the dialogue, but Socrates rejected this thesis”; or, “This is the incorrect solution you get if you use the Sine function instead of the Cosine function.”
You can explore the other quiz settings, but this should be sufficient to set up a basic multiple-choice question.
When you are finished, select Save Changes at the bottom.
Back on the quiz page, we can see our new quiz question has been added.
I can easily change how many points this question is worth.
Or I can edit the question by clicking on it.
You can also preview the question again by clicking on the magnifying glass.
When you are finished adding questions, you should make sure that the total number of points of the questions should equal the maximum grade that you have designated for the quiz.
Once you have set up a few questions, you can use the arrow cross to reorder them.
You can also Repaginate to change how many questions appear on a given page of the quiz. In this case, there are two pages, one with three questions and the other with two.
When you are finished, you can navigate back to your course page. To review the quiz and question details or to preview the quiz (which you should always do!), click on the quiz name.
From there you can change the quiz Settings, add or edit Questions, or Preview the quiz.
The quiz preview allows you to see and experience the quiz in exactly the way that your students will.
