All forms of added security will make it harder to access something (intended or not); it's another hoop to jump though and some students may not be able to reliably jump through those hoops. You'll need to keep a balance of accessibility and security in mind when adding security measures of any kind. Mix it [...]
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Moodle isn't designed to be printed. It can be, but isn't particularly attractive or suggested in most cases. If no other options are available, you can use these steps to print your Moodle Quiz. Use the Chrome Web Browser; Firefox is not recommended as its printout is a little more difficult to read. Duplicate your [...]
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The Activities block lists the different activity and resource types used in your course. Select a specific activity or resource type to display a list of all the items of that type in your course with some additional detail. Each activity type displays different information depending on your role (student or instructor). NOTE: This block [...]
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This is ideal when you want to give a student a second chance on a quiz and want to keep their first attempt on record or factored into their grade. Or, you can completely remove an attempt. From within the secondary navigation, click More. Select Overrides from the list. From Override user, select the User [...]
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Sometimes there are technical difficulties and a student will submit a quiz that is either empty or only partially filled out. In cases where you would like to give that student a fresh start you can delete their own attempt so that they can make a new one, unaffected by the erroneous grade. If you [...]
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These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course. Ideal for warm-up quizzes and terminology tests, where you want to encourage students to take a quiz/test until they pass it. Setup Quiz Activity Completion Enter the quiz where you want to set up activity completion. Click the Questions item from the Secondary Navigation. [...]
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Before importing questions into Moodle, we strongly suggest you create a Category in the question bank for each chapter or topic so later you can easily find and select questions. Scroll to the top of the main course page. From the secondary navigation, click the More menu. Select the Question bank option. From the drop-down [...]
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The Question Bank allows you to create, preview, and edit questions in a course (rather than in an individual quiz). These questions can be used in a Quiz or select questions can be used in a Lesson activity. Questions can be organized in both categories and subcategories. Scroll to the top of the main course [...]
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Enter the quiz activity. From the Secondary navigation near the top of the page click the Questions item. Locate the question you want to remove. OPTIONAL: Click the magnifying lens icon to review a question's content. Click the Select multiple items button above the quiz, so the page will reload with checkboxes before each quiz [...]
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Enter the quiz activity. From the Secondary navigation across the top of the page click the Questions item. Locate the question you want to remove. OPTIONAL: Click the magnifying lens icon to review a question's content. Click the trash can icon (Delete) to remove the question. Click the Yes button to confirm. Repeat as desired.
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NOTE: This assumes you already have questions in a question bank within your course. Enter the Quiz you wish to modify From the Secondary navigation near the top of the page click the Questions item. Click the Add button for the page you want to add a new question to. From the popup select the category from [...]
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Add Multiple Questions NOTE: This assumes you already have questions in a question bank within your course. Enter the Quiz you wish to modify From the Secondary navigation at the top of the page click the Questions item. Click the Add menu for the page where you want to add a new question Select from question bank from [...]
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You can now break your quiz into clear sections or topics! Enter the Quiz you wish to add Quiz Section Headings to From the Secondary navigation at the top of the page click the Questions item. Next to the page break you want to apply a heading to Click the Add menu Click the + a [...]
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In our previous version of Moodle there was an up and down arrow that, one step at a time, moved a quiz question slowly up or down the page. In this Moodle update there is now the familiar Drag and Drop icon, allowing you to use your mouse to move quiz questions more easily. To [...]
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This is called pagination- it's controlling how many questions appear on a given page in a quiz, after doing this you can manually add or remove these automatic page breaks. Adding new questions to a quiz after applying this setting will enforce that pagination on all new questions. Automatic Page BreaksManual Page BreaksRemove Page BreaksAutomatic [...]
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If you inherited a course from another instructor or just plain don't remember the password you set last term/year you, as an instructor, can check and update that password for you and your students. Enter the Quiz in question as you normally would (Editing does not need to be enabled) From the Secondary navigation at [...]
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What does this mean? The weight of a question within a quiz is the ratio of its worth compared to other questions in a quiz. If one question has a weight of 2 and all questions have a weight of 1 then that 2 point question is worth twice as much as its peers. The [...]
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Some quiz questions will grade automatically. For those that don't or for when you need to override a grade, you can manually grade quiz questions. Most types of quiz questions will be automatically graded by Moodle: True/False Multiple Choice All forms of Matching Calculated Cloze Short Answer* However, some question types must be manually graded [...]
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