Importing+Questions+&+Adding+Questions+to+a+Quiz



Adding questions to a quiz is a whole lot easier, although somewhat time consuming, than importing them from something like an Exam View Test Bank. We will try both methods, but will start with just typing your quiz questions in manually. This is the method that I have used and it works well. You may think that it takes quite a bit of your time to type the questions in by hand, but once the questions are in your test bank in Moodle you may use them over and over again in different types of quizzes you may give during the course of the school year.

You will actually create your question while you are in the question editing mode. You may group you questions in to categories, which is actually a good idea. You have the ability to name your categories what every you want like Chapter 1 questions or First Aid questions. This makes it very nice when you already have questions in certain categories and you want to make a comprehensive quiz covering several ideas or concepts that you might have previously quizzed your students over.

Once you have the category you want, you will have to choose the type of question you would like to add. Moodle offers a variety of different question types to choose from. Select one, then type your question in the block provided for your question then type in an answer in the space provided for the answer.


 * Types of Questions in Moodle**
 * Multiple choice questions
 * True/False questions
 * A short answer question
 * A numerical question
 * Matching question
 * Description question
 * Random set
 * Random short answer
 * A special embedded question (Cloze)

Moodle will require that you select an answer that is 100% correct and that is the answer Moodle will use to grade you student's choices. For example, on multiple choice answers, although you may have 4 answers and only one is the correct response, denoted by selecting 100%.

You may


 * Importing Questions From a Test Bank**

If you already have a test bank of questions from a publisher of your text book and would like to use those instead of manually typing in each question you may do that as well. The questions that you have must be in a format that Moodle will recognize. Moodle works with the following types of formats:


 * Gift
 * Aiken
 * Missing-Word
 * AON
 * Blackboard
 * WebCT
 * Course Test Manager
 * Embedded answers (Cloze)