Making+A+Moodle+Test+(Quiz)



Having students take a test or other formal assessment is still one way to check for student learning. Whether we like it or not, in order to demonstrate that we have mastered a concept, idea or subject, most of us must still take a quiz or a test. In high schools and colleges, tests are still with us.

Moodle makes it somewhat easy to build an online test. This is one of the really good features of not only Moodle, but any Learning Management System or LMS.

So now we are going to look at the ways that you may get your own test questions into Moodle. (Moodle calls any test a quiz).

Moodle is very flexible allowing a teacher to use many different types of questions to a quiz. Also, Moodle will grade each individual student's test and allow a teacher to view the final grades and even export them to an Excel file. There are a lot of different strategies for making your quiz secure and to try to prevent cheating on a quiz. These issues will be covered in the following lessons:

Quiz Strategies Quiz Security & Cheating

You as the teacher may decide to allow students 1 chance to complete a quiz or multiple chances to attempt to pass the quiz. Also, Moodle will allow you to shuffle both the questions and the answers within each question so that even though you may have a room full of students taking the same quiz, no 2 students may have the same question or the same quiz. This is a very nice feature, especially when 1 teacher has a large class who may be taking the same quiz at the same time.

If students have difficulty taking quizzes in general, giving them the opportunity to take multiple quizzes or re-taking a quiz might actually have some advantages for some students. That's one of the interesting features of Moodle. You as the teacher has the option and the ability to set those standards yourself, thereby giving individual students more opportunities to be successful in your course.

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 * "How To Create a Quiz**

Moodle Quizzes have two major components: the quiz body and the question pools. think of the quiz bodies as a container for various types of questions pulled from the question pools. The body is what the students see when they take the assessment. It also defines how The students interact with the quiz. The questions in a quiz body can be of any type, chosen manually or at random, and displayed in a set order or a random order. The question pools can contain questions arranged in a manner that makes sense to you. You can create pools based on chapters, weeks in the semester, important concepts, or any other organizational scheme. Pools can be reused in multiple quizzes, shared between classes, and moved between systems.

To start, we need to create a body for our first quiz.


 * Creating the Quiz Body**

When you create the quiz body, you are creating a contain for the questions and setting the rules for interacting with the quiz.

To create a quiz body:

1. Click Turn Editing Mode On, 2. Select Quiz from the add menu in the content section where you want to place the link to a quiz. 3. In the Quiz editing page, give the quiz a descriptive name. 4. Write an introduction for the quiz. Be sure to include any special instructions for taking the quiz such as the number of attempts allowed or scoring rules. 5. Choose opening and closing dates for the quiz. 6. Choose the options you want to use for your quiz:


 * **Time Limit** - Determines how long students have to complete the quiz. At the end of the allotted time, the quiz is automatically submitted with the current answers.
 * **Shuffle Questions** - Set this to Yes to randomly order the quiz questions when they are displayed to the students.
 * **Shuffle Answers** - This will shuffle the answer prompts within the question.
 * **Attempts Allowed** - Use this option to set the number of times a student can take a quiz. You can set it to unlimited times or a number from 1 to 6.
 * **Each Attempt Builds in the Last** - If you allow multiple attempts, you can choose to let students build their answers over time. If you set this to Yes, the student's responses fro the lst attempt will be visible the next time they try to take the quiz.
 * **Grading Method** - If you allow multiple attempts, you can choose which score is recorded. Your choices are highest grade, average grade, first attempt, and last attempt.
 * **After Answering, Show Feedback?** - Displaying feedback will show students which answers are right and which are wrong once they submit their quiz for grading. ** //(This option is one that I do not use very often. I have had students finish a quiz, then have their answers on the computer and showing it to another student while the other student is still actively taking a quiz. I have had students rush through a quiz and show several students who were still taking the quiz. This is not an option that I like to use due to the problems that I have encountered).// **
 * **In Feedback, Show Correct Answers** - If you display feedback, you can also choose to show the students the correct answers.
 * **Allow Review** - This option will allow student to review past quizzes after they have submitted them for grading and seen the feedback.
 * **Maximum Grade** - Use this menu to set the highest possible score for your quiz. This is the point total recorded in the grade book. If your questions have more points than the maximum, they will contribute proportionally to the max grade.
 * **Require Password** - You can set a password for the quiz that students will need to enter before they can take the quiz. You can use this to restrict who takes a quiz and when they take it.
 * Require Network Address - This option restricts access to the test to certain IP address ranges. If you want to require to take a test from a certain lab on campus, set the network address range to cover the networks in the lab.

7. Click on the Continue Button."

//Source: How to Create A Quiz, Using Moodle, Jason Cole, O'Riely Community Press p 72 - 74.//