The Moodle Quiz is a page where academics can build and release sets of questions for students to complete within a timeframe. It can meet many teaching needs, from simple, multiple-choice knowledge tests to complex, self-assessment tasks with detailed feedback. Moodle stores all quiz questions in a question bank, where academics can develop the questions, reuse them across quizzes and even randomly select questions.
The Moodle Quiz allows academics to conduct automatic and manually marked quizzes for students online. Quizzes are important for conducting formative and summative knowledge checks in Moodle.
The general way to develop a quiz is:
- Build questions in the Question Bank
- Create a Quiz activity with desired quiz behavior
- Release the quiz to your students
Develop Questions in the Question Bank
Every course has a single question bank that stores all quiz questions in the particular course. All instructors in the course can use the question bank to create, edit, or review questions.
It is important to develop questions in the question bank using appropriately named categories (folders) to ensure easy management of questions, especially after course rollover. Questions within a category can also be randomly selected within a quiz to provide different questions between students.
Question Bank: Add/Access Questions
Staff can build quiz questions in the question bank. It is recommended to build questions inside folders called categories to help manage them.
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Question Creation: Multiple Choice
There are many Quiz question types available to choose from. "Multiple choice" is one of the most commonly used question types, as well as "Essay" and "Embedded answers (Cloze)".
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Create a Quiz
The Quiz activity allows academics to choose how they want the quiz to behave, layout questions in a structure, and release quiz to students. The quiz can be created by selecting the "Quiz" option in the activity chooser.
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Quiz Settings
Understanding quiz settings is an important part of quiz construction. The following guide is a great way to understand the basic settings involved in building a quiz which works the intended purpose.
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Add questions from a Question Bank
Using the question bank to add questions to a Moodle activity can be an efficient method for quiz construction. The guide below provides steps to adding questions from a question bank to a required quiz.
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Adding questions to a quiz
Once the quiz shell has been created, questions can be added to it. The following guide provides in-depth steps for adding questions to a Moodle quiz.
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It is important when building a Quiz, that each question is on a separate page (if possible). Most questions work fine if put on one page, however that creates a bigger load on Moodle and can cause issues when a large amount of students try to access the same Quiz at the same time, like during the exams.
Maintain a Quiz
When conducting quizzes, common management options include granting extensions, viewing quiz completion and moderating marks.
Reactivate a Quiz
Quizzes can be reactivated by extending the close date of a quiz.
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Grant a Quiz Extension
Quiz Extensions can be granted for students who satisfy special consideration requirements using the "User override" feature.
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View Quiz Report
The Quiz Report is a useful tool to gauge the performance of students for a particular quiz by providing an overview of their results. This is important for ensuring the quiz is running correctly and performing moderation options such as viewing student's attempt details or overriding a mark.
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Manual Grading
Questions such as essays are not automatically marked and need to be manually marked in the manual grading report. This report can also be used to override automatically marked questions.
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How can I remove a wrong question after the quiz has been taken?
You can not remove a question once a quiz has been taken by one student or more. However you can change the score and flag the question so you know it has problems. Set the score for that question to 0.
Can I have a quiz that is not graded?
Yes:
- On the quiz editing page, set the score for each question, and the total score for the quiz to 0.
- On the quiz settings page, there is a grid of check-boxes. Turn off all the ones in the score column.
Grades are not showing to students from the quiz.
The timing of displaying feedback and grades in a quiz is mainly controlled by the 'Review Options' setting. If 'Marks' is not ticked in the 'After the quiz is closed' options, grades will not be released to students.
There are many reasons for grades to be hidden. For direct assistance contact your Faculty support.
How to give extension to specific students?
Quiz activity has a 'User overrides' option which allows instructors to give extensions to specific students. You can access the user overrides by:
1. In the quiz settings of the activity, click 'More' and select 'Overrides' from the dropdown.
2. On the user overrides page, click 'Add user override'
3. Select a user and set the overrides