Using Quizzes for practice and assessment
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3. Design a quiz
When using Quiz in Moodle, you will have to make many choices, depending on the purpose of your quiz. For example:
— Is it a quiz for practice or assessment? Previous examples in this course have shown how different it can be.
— Feedback and hints. What type of feedback you would like to give and when to give it?
— Limits. The Quiz can be accessible for certain dates, one attempt can have a time limit, and it can be password protected
— Grading. What grading scale are you going to use? Is the mark visible to the learner? If you allow multiple attempts, how are they graded?
— Attempts. Is there only one or several ones?
— Grading. What grading scale are you going to use? Is the mark visible to the learner? If you allow multiple attempts, how are they graded?
— Attempts. Is there only one or several ones?
Answers to these questions depend on the purpose of the Quiz and have to be answered in the design phase.
Quiz features
— Feedback about performance and self-assessment are important parts of a
learning environment. Feedback can be given at all stages of the quiz (using the review
options in the Quiz settings) and can be very
detailed. Quizzes are useful for both summative and formative
assessment. Apart from the Essay question type (which must be graded
manually) all other question types are automatically graded by Moodle.— A wide variety of Quiz Reports (in addition to Grades) are available for use by the teacher. Quiz reports not only can focus on a single student's attempt to answer each question, but also can perform a robust item analysis of a question's validity based upon aggregated student responses.
— A quiz can automatically select random and/or specific questions from different categories of questions.
— There are different options for scoring (marks/grades) individual questions in a specific quiz, grading attempts for a quiz and each question type.
— Display settings: The quiz settings allow different display methods. They can randomize the questions for each student and or randomize the answers for each student. The teacher can determine the number of questions on each page of questions the student sees. The teacher can change the position of any question in the quiz. It is possible to put a label with information any place between questions.
— Question behaviour: The teacher can choose how questions behave during
the quiz. It can be like a classic test, where the student gets no
feedback while attempting the test, only after submitting it. Alternatively, Moodle
can reveal the grades and/or feedback to the student during the quiz,
and perhaps even give them another chance to answer the question (for
fewer marks) having read the feedback.
— Single or multiple Attempts: Quizzes can be configured to allow multiple attempts.
Each attempt at a question is automatically marked, and the teacher can
choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers.
Then, before you go to the next step, you should answer the following questions:
— What settings would accommodate what you want to achieve?
— What review options would you enable?
— Do you need a timer?
— Do you need a timer?
— When would you like to display the feedback?
— How many attempts are possible?
— How many attempts are possible?
— Is this activity graded?
— Is the navigation flexible or are the questions provided in sequential order?
— Is the navigation flexible or are the questions provided in sequential order?
Read more about the Quiz in the Moodledocs: https://docs.moodle.org/34/en/Quiz_settings