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. A common activity in Moodle is to have students earns a specific score on a quiz. You can set up Activity Completion to mark a quiz as complete if the student earns a passing grade. This is ideal for warm-up quizzes and terminology [...]
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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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Single QuestionMultiple QuestionsSingle Question Delete a single question from a quiz. Enter the Quiz. Click the Questions option from the secondary navigation. Click the Trash can icon to the right to delete the question. NOTE: Click the magnifying lens icon will allow you to preview the question before selecting. Click the Yes button to confirm. Multiple [...]
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You can use these steps to add random question(s) from any question bank category within your course. NOTE: You should always create new questions within a question bank category prior to adding questions to your quiz. Enter the Quiz. Click Questions from the secondary navigation menu. Select + a random question from the Add drop-down [...]
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You can use these steps to add a single question or multiple questions from any question bank category within your course. NOTE: You should always create new questions within a question bank category prior to adding questions to your quiz. Single QuestionMultiple QuestionsSingle Question Enter the Quiz. Click Questions from the secondary navigation menu. Select [...]
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You can break your quiz into sections or topics. In order to use sections, you much first add page breaks to your quiz before you can add sections. Quiz sections will allow you to name and determine if you would like questions shuffled within that page and subsequent pages. Enter the Quiz you want to [...]
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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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You can set a password to prevent users from accessing a quiz. There may be times where you forget the password or if you inherited a course from another instructor you may not know it. You can use these steps to check and update the password for your current course. Enter the quiz. Click Settings from [...]
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What does this mean? The numbers in the far-right column on the Edit Quiz page represent individual value for each question. This is, by default, one (1) point but the instructor you can alter the weight of individual questions. For example, you might want an essay question to be worth five (5) points and a [...]
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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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The Question Bank is a pool of questions (with various question types) you can use in Quiz and Lesson activities. You can then set up quizzes using random questions or specific questions from your question bank. NOTE: You can add questions to quizzes directly, but it is not recommended as you will only have access [...]
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Working with Quizzes in Moodle Quizzes are one of the common assessment activities used in Moodle. Quizzes can meet many teaching needs, from simple, multiple-choice knowledge tests to complex, self-assessment tasks with detailed feedback. It is best to create questions in a Question bank so they can be used within multiple quizzes. CreateGradeFor StudentsAccessibilityTroubleshootCreate We [...]
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