Moodle: Teacher's Manual

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● Introduction Course Building
● Course Administration - Quiz
❍ Settings

❍ Further Options The Quiz tool

❍ Blocks

● Course Building With the quiz tool it is possible to create timed on-line quizzes that are automatically graded. The results can be displayed in
❍ Resources and
different statistical ways. The quiz tool in Moodle is at this point still less developed than the one in WebCT. It does not have
Activities open questions and no manual override for misspelled answers in the short answer questions, for example. On the other hand,
thanks to the use of the Moodle text editor, questions can be richer in multimedia content and Moodle has a gap text question,
❍ Resources
which WebCT lacks.
❍ Activities

❍ - Assignment
Building a quiz is a process in many steps and therefore it has been divided in steps listed below:
❍ - Book

❍ - Chat
Contents:
❍ - Choice

❍ - Dialogue
● Adding a quiz
❍ - Flash
● Adding questions
❍ - Forum
● Assigning weight
❍ - Glossary
● Categories and Questions
❍ - Hot Potatoes
● Multiple Choice question
Quiz
● True/False question
❍ - Journal
● Short Answer question
❍ - Lesson
● Numerical question and Calculated question
❍ - Mail
● Matching question
❍ - Netpublish
● Description
❍ - Questionnaire
● Random question and Random Short answer Matching
❍ - Quiz
● Gap text (Embedded answers/Cloze)
❍ - Scorm

❍ - Survey
Adding a Quiz
❍ - Return Folder

❍ - Wiki
Adding the quiz tool to a topic or week block, brings up the following initial settings screen:
❍ - Workshop

● Course Teaching
❍ Timetable

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❍ CHECKLIST
❍ Using the Tools
❍ - Assignment
❍ - Chat
❍ - Forum
❍ - Glossary
❍ - Journal
❍ - Lesson
❍ - Wiki
❍ - Workshop
❍ Tips
❍ After Teach
❍ Resources for
Teachers

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The time the quiz is open (set with opening and closing date and time) should be longer than the time limit set for the quiz, so
as to allow for students starting the quiz late. However, in a regular quiz the time the quiz is open should be less than twice the
time limit. In assignment quizzes or self-test quizzes (that can be taken more than once) this restriction is irrelevant.

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Clicking Save changes will bring you to the following screen, where you create your quiz by adding questions:

Upon selecting the Tryout category from the drop down list, the category will open so you can select questions that you wish to
add to the Example quiz:

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When the questions have been added to your Example quiz, you can assign a relative weight in points to the questions, so that
difficult questions are worth more points than easy ones. Save the relative weights by clicking Save grades: The points total is
not bound by the maximum grade you specified for the quiz. So, for example you can have a relative points total of 99 and a
maximum quiz grade of 5. The total amount of points scored by the student will be calculated by the quiz tool to match a
grading scale of 0 to 5 .

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When you have clicked Save grades, your quiz is done. Clicking the Preview tab will show you a preview of the quiz with the
questions and timer (if any), allowing you to try out the quiz, without logging an attempt. The Info tab will show the quiz page
more or less like this:

Note that you can edit the settings of your quiz and its questions at any time after you have created it, but you should not
normally do that after students have taken the quiz, because it might affect their grade (unless that is the point, i.e. correcting
errors in the questions, and then regarding the students).
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The above is the fast way to create a quiz, but, if you do not have your own category nor your own questions ready for use, and
you need a quiz, other than a tryout quiz, you will have to create everything from scratch starting with a quiz of course (see
instructions above) and then a category.

Note that the view in the screenshots below differs in certain details from the view in the present version of Moodle, but in
general the information is the same.

When you click the Edit categories button, you will see the above page on which you can define new question categories.
These categories are like folders in which you store the questions. Remember not to publish your categories (for that will open
them to anybody on the whole Moodle site, like for the tryout category). You have to designate a category for your questions or
else use the default category. It is best if you name the category after your course or yourself. It is advisable to have no more
than one category per course (especially if you wish to use the random question to maximum effect)

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After you have created your category select it from the drop down list. Now you can start adding questions to it. For teachers
who have already got quizzes in WebCT, it will be welcome news to know that multiple choice and short answer questions can
be downloaded from WebCT and uploaded in Moodle. In that case the Import questions from file button must be clicked:

In most cases, however, you will be making questions using the Moodle options. Moodle offers a larger choice of question
types than WebCT even though the paragraph writing question (open question) lacks. For on-line writing assignments, the
journal tool can be used. We will discuss here in detail the four main question types: Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Matching
and Embedded Answers (a.k.a. Gap or Cloze text), while we will describe concisely the other types.

1. Multiple Choice

A multiple choice question is easy to answer, but difficult to make. The question has to be well-formulated and the answer
alternatives (the choices) have to be logical, plausible, so as to really test the students’ understanding.

To create a multiple choice question with Moodle you have to select this question type in the drop down list:

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Selecting Multiple Choice will bring up the following creation page:

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After filling in the question, the answers, the feedback and the grading percentages, you can click Send / Save changes and
the question will be added to the selected category. Note that the True-False question is a variety of the Multiple Choice
question.

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2. True/False

This question is a variety of the Multiple Choice question with only two possible answers: True or False. The question usually
has the form of a statement, the veracity of which the students have to determine. The creation page asks for a name and
description (i.e. the statement under scrutiny). You have to indicate which is the correct answer (true or false) and fill in
feedback for both answers. Note that “false” can be the correct answer just as much as “true”, it depends on the statement.

True/False questions have a 50% chance of success, so they are highly susceptible to guesses by students. Therefore these
questions may not test a student’s knowledge very well, but they can be used to introduce a subject.

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3. Short Answer

Short answers are good for questions that have only one or a limited number of correct answers, like in giving a definition of
a term and asking for the term. The answers cannot contain too many words. Short answer questions are not very suitable for
translations, because all possible correct answers have to be provided when the question is created, and a translation can have
many correct answers. Spelling mistakes too, must be taken into account.

To create a short answer question select the question type from the drop down list and the following creation page will appear:

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Since the Moodle quiz tool does not have a teacher override, which allows teachers to accept spelling errors, the short answer
questions must be used with care. If you need to include spelling errors as acceptable answers after the quiz has been taken
by students, you can edit the individual questions and then regrade the quiz.

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4. Numerical

From the student perspective, a numerical question looks just like a short-answer question.

The difference is that numerical answers are allowed to have an accepted error. This allows a continuous range of answers to
be set. For example, if the answer is 30 with an accepted error of 5, then any number between 25 and 35 will be accepted as
correct.

To create a numerical question you fill in the question name and the question (typically a mathematical one). Then you must
give the correct answer and the accepted error. Finally you can fill in the unit (e.g. meters or litres) and alternative units (e.g.
kilometres, with a multiplier of 1000 or centimetres, with a multiplier of 0,01)

Numerical questions can also have case-insensitive non-numerical answers. This is useful whenever the answer for a
numerical question is something like N/A, +inf, -inf, NaN etc.

5. Calculated

The calculated question is a more advanced numerical question that allows you to create functions and equations with
variables (that will be different when a student takes the quiz. In other words when you write {a} + {b}, the program will turn this
into perhaps 1 + 2 for one student and 3 + 2 for the next.

Detailed explanation of the question is contained in the help file for this question type.

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6. Matching

Matching questions present two lists of items, which the user must combine in pairs. This is a way to test the learners’ ability to
associate two parts of a concept. A simple example is associating historical first names and last names, a more demanding
example would be logical number series (in which the student must pick the correct next number in the series from the list of
jumbled items).

Selecting Matching brings up the following creation screen:

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Note that in the image above the options 2 to 9 have been left out for the sake of brevity. Upon clicking the Save changes
button the question will be saved in the category you selected.

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7. Description

The Description option is not a question, but provides you with a text editor with which you can add text or multimedia material
in the quiz. For example, if you want the students to answer questions about a text, you use a Description to add the text to the
quiz (in a quiz like that you would not shuffle to questions of course, otherwise the text might end up below the questions).

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8. Random question

A random question in a quiz will be replaced, when the quiz loads, by a question (from the same category as the random
question itself) that has been randomly chosen from the questions that are not already in the quiz. Having a number of
random questions in a quiz will mean that every student will have different questions in their quiz when it loads, which in
combination with the shuffling of questions and answers makes it much more difficult to cheat. Random questions work best
when the quiz is drawn from a category that contains a large number of similar questions (in type and in weight, so that not one
student will get the easy true/false questions while another must wrestle with difficult gap-filling questions).

Note that you can add a number of random questions to a category (and to the quiz!) using the special button Add several
random questions to quiz (which is easier than creating a number of random questions one by one and then adding them to
the quiz).
Note also that the number of random questions cannot be higher than the number of real questions in a category!

9. Random Short-Answer Matching

This is a random question that creates a matching question out of the short-answer questions in the same category. You can
select the number of matching pairs (i.e. short answer questions) used in the questions, but this number cannot be higher than
the total number of short-answer questions in the category from which you draw.

Every time this question loads, it draws different questions in a different order, which again makes it more difficult for students
to cheat. Naturally you are not supposed to use short-answer questions from the same category in your quiz, because
otherwise it may come back in this random matching question too!

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10. Gap text (Embedded Answers, Cloze)

An embedded answer question allows you to create a gap or cloze text with three different types of gaps at your disposal: a
multichoice gap (where the alternatives are listed, very good for testing spelling knowledge, or understanding of often
confused concepts), a standard fill-in gap (resembles a short-answer question) and a numerical box (for calculated questions
with a certain margin of errors).
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The gap text question can be quite useful, especially in language teaching, but it is slightly more complicated to make, because
no interface exists yet for the creation of the gaps. Selecting Embedded Answers brings up a text editor in which you have to
write (or copy and paste) your text. After that, you have to add the formatting codes manually to create the gaps (and the
feedback and the grading). The simplest way is to click the help icon ( ) above the question. This opens a window which
explains the codes (and from where you can copy and paste the code to edit it in your editor).

Example:

The elephant is hunted for its tusks.

If I wish to replace the word elephant in the above sentence with a multichoice gap, I write the sentence as follows (note the
answers in blue, the codes in brown and the feedback in red):

The {1:MULTICHOICE:rhinoceros#Sorry, the rhino has no tusks, but a horn~moose#Sorry, a moose has no
tusks, but antlers~=elephant#Correct! Another animal hunted for the ivory its tusks provide is the walrus} is
hunted for its tusks.

(The number 1 in the above example signifies the number of points the student can earn answering this gap; thus allowing you
to add relative weight to different gaps within one question!)

Another example (Short Answer gap):

The elephant is hunted for its tusks.

If I want to replace the word tusks in the above sentence with a fill-in gap, I would write the following:

The elephant is hunted for its {1:SHORTANSWER:=tusks#Correct!}.

I can also add (commonly given) wrong answers and give feedback about those errors:

The elephant is hunted for its {1:SHORTANSWER:tusk#Sorry, an elephant has more than one tusk~tuks#Sorry, spelling
error~=tusks#Correct!}.

The details are explained, with a clear example, in the help window (click the help icon after the Editing Embedded Answers
(Cloze) title. If this seems too complicated, attend the Moodle training session(s) about the quiz tool for hands on instruction.

Note that gap text questions should not be too long and not contain too many gaps (we advise no more than about 15
gaps per question), because that will make the quiz slow to load!

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