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 done; however, it isn't particularly attractive nor is it the suggested use. The following steps are required to print a quiz when no other options are available. Use the Chrome Web Browser (Firefox is not recommended for this task as it treats printing just a little [...]
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This is ideal for when you want to give a student a second chance to take a quiz for technical or other unique situations and still want to keep their first attempt on record or factored into their grade. If you want to provide students with a clean slate on their quiz and completely remove [...]
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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, allowing a student to take a test until they pass it and are able to move on can help strengthen skills needed for following activities. Confirm Quiz Maximum Grade Enter the Quiz you want to be [...]
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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 that you will want to import questions into for easy sorting and picking. Enter the course in question. Expand the Actions Menu (Gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the More… [...]
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The question bank is generally a part of a course rather than any individual quiz but it can be used to feed individual quizzes from pools of questions within a category or categories. Enter the course in question. Expand the Actions Menu (Gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the More... option [...]
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Enter the quiz activity. Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) in the top-right corner of the page and select the Edit Quiz (NOT the Edit settings) link. 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 [...]
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Enter the quiz activity. Locate the Actions menu (gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page and select the Edit Quiz (NOT Edit settings) link. 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 [...]
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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 Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the Edit Quiz option. Click the Add button for the page you want to add a new question to. From the [...]
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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 Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) from the top-right Select the Edit Quiz option Click the Add menu for the page where you want to add a new question Select from question bank from [...]
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Questions added in this way can only be used by this quiz. If you want to reuse a quiz question on weekly quizzes as well as midterm or final exams, you should create the questions in the Question Bank of your course. Enter the Quiz you wish to modify. Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) [...]
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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 Locate the Actions Menu (gear icon) from the top-right corner of the page. Select the Edit Quiz option. Next to the page break you want to apply a heading to Click the Add [...]
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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 Breaks Enter the Quiz you [...]
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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) Locate the Actions Menu (gear [...]
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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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