StudentQuiz

Use StudentQuiz if you wish to allow students to contribute questions to a quiz set up for the course. 

The StudentQuiz activity enables students to collaboratively create a quiz for the course with many question types. The quiz can be configured to award points to students for contribution and instructors have the ability to moderate the questions. 

1. On the Moodle course home page, in the relevant section, create Add an activity or resource, select StudentQuiz from the list. 
   
2. On the Adding a new StudentQuiz page, click Expand all at the top right of the page. 
3. In the General section, enter a Student Quiz Name, and a Description if necessary.

4. Under Ranking settings:
   • Tick the checkbox for Make students anonymous if you wish to prevent students from seeing the name of the person who posted the question.
   • Tick the checkbox for Publish new questions if you wish to automatically publish new questions.
   • At Created question factor, enter the points a student would receive for creating a question. 
   • At Approved question factor, enter the points a student would receive for having their question approved.
   • At Rating factor, enter the points a student would receive for each star in their question's rating. 
   • At Latest correct answer factor, enter the points for each correct answer on the student's last attempt.
   • At Latest wrong answer factor, enter the points for each wrong or partially wrong answer on the student's last attempt. 
   • At Exclude roles in ranking, select the roles you would like to be hidden from the rankings. These roles can still participate in the activity normally.

5. Under Question settings:
   • Select the Allowed question types.
   • Tick the checkbox for Enforce rating if you wish to require students to rate a question right after answering the question for the first time.
   • Tick the checkbox for Enforce commenting if you wish to require students to comment a question.

6. Complete the other sections as required, then click Save and display to add questions to the quiz.

To create questions within a StudentQuiz:

1. On the course home page, with editing turned on, click the link for the StudentQuiz. 

2. On the quiz's home page, click Create new question. 

3. From the list, select a question type for the question, and click Add.

4. On the Adding a question page, select a Category, a Question name, Question text, Default mark, and other sections as necessary. Then click Save changes. 

Instructors can preview, edit or delete all questions added to the StudentQuiz activity. 

Preview a question

To preview a student's question:

1. Next to the question in the table of questions, that you wish to preview, click on the Preview icon . 

Edit a question

To edit a student's question:

1. Next to the question in the table of questions, that you wish to edit, click on the Edit icon.

1. Edit the question as required. 

Delete a question

To delete a student's question:

1. Next to the question that you wish to delete, click on the Delete icon. 

Import

You may already have a set of questions pre prepared and wish to add them in a StudentQuiz question pool. StudentQuiz allows the import of questions in a variety of Moodle formats.

1. Navigate to your StudentQuiz activity and select Settings > Question Bank > Import
   
   
    
2. Choose the file format of the file you are intending on uploading and click Import.
   
   

Export

Alternatively, should you wish to export the question pool to a compatible file for re-use in another quiz or application. 

1. Navigate to your StudentQuiz activity and select Settings > Question Bank > Export
   
   
    
2. Choose the file formate you wish to export to, select the appropriate category where the questions are categorised and click Export questions to file.