Basics
Turn editing
on
Get to Editing a Quiz page
Create a new quiz
Set Quiz options
Select
different Quiz options
Shuffle my questions and answers
Show feedback and correct answers
Working with questions (basic)
Create
a new question in the question database
Add a question from my question
database to my quiz
Edit a question
Mark
a single answer of a multiple choice question as correct
Display an image in a question.
Delete a question from a quiz.
Categorizing of questions
Display questions
from the 'Question database' for a selected category type.
Create a new question category type
Change an existing category type to
another
Working with questions (advanced)
Select different question types to create
Create a block in my quiz with descriptive
text only.
How adding a descriptive text block affects
question numbering
Insert a table into a question
Create random questions
Basics
Turn editing on Screenshots
| 1 | See Get to my course page |
| 2 | Click on ‘Turn editing on’ which appears in upper right hand corner of your course page. Previously unseen icons display. |
Get
to ‘Editing a Quiz’ page Screenshots
| 1 | See Get to my course page |
| 2 | Click on the name part of the quiz link which can be found in any topic box on your course page. It is identified as a quiz by its icon of a box with a red tick. |
| 3 | Click on ‘Update this Quiz’ button which is found in the upper right hand corner of your Quiz. ‘Updating a quiz in Topic ??’ page displays.. |
| 4 | Click on ‘Continue’ which is viewable by scrolling to the bottom of the page. ‘Editing a Quiz’ page displays. |
Create a new quiz Screenshots
| 1 | See Turn editing on |
| 2 | Click on the down arrow of the 'Add' option box which is found in the right hand corner of each topic box on your course page. A number of options display. |
| 3 | Click on the 'Quiz' option. ‘Adding a New quiz to Topic ??’ page displays. Continue with creation of your quiz. |
Set Quiz options
Select
different Quiz options Screenshot
| 1 | Click on the name part of the quiz link which can be found in any topic box on your course page. It is identified as a quiz by its icon of a box with a red tick. |
| 2 | Click on ‘Update this Quiz’ button which is found in the upper right hand corner of your Quiz. ‘Updating a quiz in Topic ??’ Quiz page displays with options |
| 3 | Select Quiz options of your choice. |
| 4 | Click on ‘Continue’ which is found by scrolling to the bottom of the page. ‘Editing a Quiz’ page displays. |
| 5 | Click on 'Save this whole Quiz' button which is found after the last question of the quiz. Quiz questions display on the left hand side of the 'Editing a Quiz' page |
| 6 | See Faculty Primer for recommended default quiz options |
Shuffle
my questions and answers Screenshots
| 1 | Set 'Shuffle questions' and 'Shuffle answers' to option of your choice. See Select different Quiz options for details |
Show
feedback and correct answers Screenshots
| 1 | Set 'After answering, show feedback? and 'In feedback, show correct answers?' to options of your choice. See Select different Quiz options for details |
| 1 | See Display questions from the Question Database for a selected category type |
| 2 | Click on the Down Arrow of the option box next to ‘Create a new question’ which is found in the upper right hand corner of ‘Editing Quiz’ page. A number of question type options display. |
| 3 | Click on a question type to create (Multiple Choice, True/False, Descriptive ). ‘Editing a Question’ page displays. |
| 4 | Enter question information such as question name, question text, feedback , category type. |
| 5 | Click on ‘Save Changes’ at the bottom of the page. Your question is added to the question database. If you wish to add the newly created question to your quiz. see Add a question from my question database to my quiz |
Add a question from my question database to my quiz Screenshots
| 1 | See Display questions from the Question Database for a selected category type. |
| 2 | Check the empty boxes of the database questions you wish to add to your quiz. Database questions are found on the right hand side of ‘Editing a Quiz’ page. |
| 3 | Click on ‘Add selected to quiz’ button which is found below the last question of the question database. Added questions display in quiz on left hand side of page. |
Edit a question Screenshots
| 1 | See Get to Editing a Quiz page |
| 2 | Click on the hand icon which appears next to the question you wish to edit .The question page displays. |
| 3 | Edit question information such as question name, question text, feedback , category type. If you wish to include an image in your question see Display an image in a question. |
| 4 | Click on ‘Save
Changes’ at the bottom of screen. Note: It makes no difference if you edit a 'Quiz question' (question appearing on left hand side of 'Editing a Quiz page') or a 'Database Question' (question appearing on right hand side of 'Editing a Quiz page'). Changes made are saved to both. |
Mark a single answer of a multiple choice question as correct Screenshots
| 1 | See Edit a question to edit a previously created question. |
| 2 | If 'Single answer' is not selected then Click on the 'One or Multiple Answers' option box. You may need to scroll down the screen to see this option. |
| 3 | Select 'single answer' (if not already selected) |
| 4 | Click on the Grade option box which appears next to the correct answer (or choice as it is termed in Moodle) and set it to POSITIVE 100. |
| 5 | Click on ‘Save Changes’ at the bottom of screen. |
Display an image in a question Screenshots
| 1 | See Edit a question to edit a previously created question. |
| 2 | Click on the down arrow of 'Image to display' option box. Uploaded image files display. |
| 3 | Select the image you uploaded to display with this question. (See Upload a file for details of how to upload images for selection). |
| 4 | Click on ‘Save Changes’ at the bottom of screen. |
Delete
a question from a quiz. Screenshots
| 1 | See Get to Editing a Quiz page . Quiz questions display on the left hand side of the page. |
| 2 | Click on the X icon which appears next to the quiz question you wish to delete. ‘Editing a Quiz’ page displays minus the question you deleted. |
Categorizing of questions
Display
questions from the’ Question Database’ for a selected category type
Screenshots
| 1 | See Get to Editing a Quiz page . |
| 2 | Click on the down arrow of the Category dropdown box on the right hand side of ‘Editing a Quiz’ page. Existing category types display. If the required category type does not exist see Create a new question category type. |
| 3 | Click on a category type to select it. If questions belonging to this category exist they display. Options to add new questions to this category also display. |
Create
a new question category type Screenshots
| 1 | See Get to Editing a Quiz page . |
| 2 | Click on ‘Edit Categories’ button which is found on the right hand side near the top of ‘Editing a Quiz’ page. ‘Edit Categories’ page displays |
| 3 | Enter a category name and description. |
| 4 | Click on the ‘Save Changes’ button. Your newly added category displays. |
| 5 | Click on the ‘Back to Quiz editing’ button which is found toward the bottom of the ‘Edit Categories’ page. ‘Editing a Quiz’ page displays. |
| 6 | See Display questions from the Question Database for a selected category type to view your newly created question category type. |
Change
an existing category type to another Screenshots
| 1 | See Edit a question to edit a previously created question. |
| 2 | Click on the down arrow in the block adjacent to the ‘Categories’ label. |
| 3 | Click on the category type you wish to select |
| 4 | Click on ‘Save Changes’ at the bottom of screen once your changes are complete. |
Working with questions
(advanced)
Select
different Question types to create Screenshots
| 1 | See Display questions from the Question Database for a selected category type |
| 2 | Click on the Down Arrow of the option box next to ‘Create a new question’ which is found in the upper right hand corner of ‘Editing Quiz’ page. A number of question type options display. |
| 3 | Click on a question type to create (Multiple Choice, True/False, Descriptive ). ‘Editing a Question’ page displays. |
Create
a block in my quiz with descriptive text only
| 1 | Select 'Description' as question type selected in the question type option box. See Select different Question types to create |
How adding a descriptive
text block affects question numbering.
| 1 | When editing a quiz incremental
order numbers are assigned
to questions as well as descriptive text blocks. When taking the quiz no question numbers are assigned to descriptive text blocks. Order numbers and question numbers therefore match except when descriptive text blocks exist. Simple statistics report used to view resident answers to a quiz matches the quiz order numbers displayed when editing a quiz. |
Insert
a table into a question Screenshots
| 1 | Edit the question you wish to update |
| 2 | Locate your cursor at the position you wish to insert the table and click. |
| 3 | Click on the table icon which is found in the top right hand corner of the embedded question form (the block you write the question text). The icon is identified by the horizontal and vertical lines running thru it. An 'Insert table - web dialog' box displays |
| 4 | Enter the number of rows and columns of your table. |
| 5 | Click on the insert button of the 'Insert table - web dialog' box. The editable table displays |
| 6 | Click on ‘Save Changes’ at the bottom of screen once your changes are complete. |
| 1 | See Get to Editing a Quiz page . |
| 2 | Click on the 'Create multiple questions' button which is found in the 'Add Questions' block in the upper right hand side of the screen. A number of question type options display. |
| 3 | Click on the down arrow of the 'Category' option box to select the category from which the random questions should be created. |
| 4 | Click on the down arrow of the 'Create number of questions' option box to select the number of random questions to be created. |
| 5 | Click on the 'Create multiple questions' button. Random questions are created and display in both the quiz (left hand side of screen) and the database category they were created from (right hand side of screen). A random question is identifiable by its title 'Random Question' followed by the category from which it was created which appears in brackets. |