Learn2021 Quiz – University Digital Teaching Portal

Instructional Guide: Learn Quiz

Overview

The Quiz activity module allows the teacher to design and build quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types, including multiple choice, true-false, short answer and drag and drop images and text. These questions are kept in the Question bank and can be re-used in different quizzes.

The quiz activity enables a teacher to create quizzes comprising questions of various types, including multiple choice, matching, short-answer and numerical. The teacher can allow the quiz to be attempted multiple times, with the questions shuffled or randomly selected from the question bank. A time limit may be set. Each attempt is marked automatically, with the exception of essay questions, and the grade is recorded in the gradebook. The teacher can choose when and if hints, feedback and correct answers are shown to students.

When To Use

Quizzes may be used for the following:

As course exams
As mini tests for reading assignments or at the end of a topic
As exam practice using questions from past exams
To deliver immediate feedback about performance
For self-assessment

Instructional Guide

Before You Start

A quiz is made up of two parts: (1) a set up page or ‘front cover’ where you add the criteria for the quiz, such as grading and time limits, and (2) the questions themselves. The questions are stored separately from your quiz in a course Question bank. This means you can reuse your questions in a later quiz. It also means you could display an empty quiz (a ‘front cover’ with no questions added) on your course page, so be careful!
Some people prefer to make their quiz questions separately first and then add them to a quiz ‘front cover’ later. If you would like that, then look at the documentation on Question bank or just read on below until we get there!

Set Up the Quiz ‘Front Cover’

In the course where you want your quiz, turn on the editing and from the Activity Chooser, select ‘Quiz’.
Give it a name and if desired, a description telling students what the quiz is about.
If you want, you can now scroll down to the bottom of the page, click ‘Save and display’ and start adding questions. (Go to the section ‘Add your questions’ below.)

Default Settings for Your Quiz

If you don’t change anything on the quiz setup page (your ‘front cover’), then your quiz will work like this:
- It will not have a time limit and students can take it as many times as they wish, with the recorded grade being their best attempt.
- Each question will be on a different page and they can move freely between previous and later questions.
- Students won’t know their score or get feedback until they complete the quiz.
To change some of those settings, read on:

Quiz Settings

If you expand the sections in the quiz setup page and click the ? icon and the ‘Show more’ links, you can explore alternative settings for your quiz.
Here are some popular settings:
Time limit – if you only want to allow students a limited amount of time from when they start until they must have finished. If, instead you want students to finish by a certain date and time, set the Close the quiz setting.
How questions behave – Interactive with multiple tries -instead of the quiz being like a test where students only see their results at the end, this setting allows them to get immediate feedback for each question and keep trying. (Good for formative assessment.) Learn more about Question behaviours.
Overall feedback -completing this will give your students customised feedback according to what grade range they obtained.

Add Your Questions

So, you have completed the quiz set up page and clicked ‘Save and display‘:

1. Click the button ‘Edit quiz’

2. Click ‘Add’ on the right and then click ‘+ a new question’ (If you already made questions in the question bank, then click ‘+ from question bank’ or if you wish to add a question randomly picked from a category of questions, click ‘+ a random question’).

3. Choose the type of question you want to add and then click ‘Add’ at the bottom:

4. Add your question. If you need help, click the documentation link at the bottom of your question page or explore the Question types documentation. Note that students won’t see the question name; it is for your records only.

5. Click ‘Save changes’ when you have made your question.

6. Repeat steps 2- 5 for as many questions as you need.

7. If you want to, change the maximum grade for your quiz to reflect the number of questions.

Getting your Quiz Ready for Students

Once you have added all the questions you need, your quiz is ready for students and will already be visible on the page (unless you hid it while you were setting it up.)

It is a good idea to preview your quiz by clicking in the block Administration > Quiz administration > Preview. (1 below) You can then check for any oversights and edit a question directly from a link provided (2 below):

Viewing Quiz Results

To see the grades once students have done your quiz, you can either:

- Click the quiz itself and then the link ‘Attempts =’ (where the number is the number of attempts) – or –
- Click the quiz and then from the block Administration > Quiz administration, expand ‘Results’ and select the analysis you need.

Quiz Settings

Creating a new quiz is a two-step process. In the first step, you create the quiz activity and set its options which specify the rules for interacting with the quiz. In the second step you add questions to the quiz.

This section describes the options you can set for the quiz activity.

Quiz Administration

When you first set up your quiz from Add an activity or resource > Quiz, (or, if you don’t have this link, the dropdown Add an activity>Quiz) you will get the following settings, (which can also be changed later in the Edit Settings link of the Quiz administration settings block).

All settings may expanded by clicking the “Expand all” link top right.

General

Add a name here (which students will click on to access the quiz) and, if desired, a description of what they must do.

Timing

Note: The user’s time-zone – as set in the user profile – only affects how a particular time is displayed to that user. The actual timing for the quiz is not changed by that.

Open the quiz

You can specify times when the quiz is accessible for people to make attempts. Before the opening time the quiz will be unavailable to students. They will be able to view the quiz introduction but will not be able to view the questions. Quizzes with start times in the future display both the open and close date for students.

Close the quiz

After the closing time, the students will not be able to start new attempts. Answers that the student submits after the quiz closing date will be saved but they will not be marked.

Even after the quiz has closed students will still be able to see the quiz description and review their attempts. What exactly they will see depends on the settings you choose for review options (see below).

Time limit

By default, quizzes do not have a time limit, which allows students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you do specify a time limit, several things are done to try and ensure that quizzes are completed within that time:

A countdown timer is shown in the quiz navigation block
When the timer has run out, the quiz is submitted automatically with whatever answers have been filled in so far
If a student manages to cheat and goes over the allotted time, no marks are awarded for any answers entered after the time ran out

When time expires…

There are three options as to what will happen when the time limit is up. Choose the one you need from the dropdown menu:

Open attempts are submitted automatically (This is the default)
There is a grace period when open attempts can be submitted, but no more questions answered
Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not counted

If you select “There is a grace period…” then you can check the box to enable the “Submission grace period” and specify a period of time during which learners may still submit the quiz after the time is up.

Note: You can change quiz availability and duration for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections in quiz administration.

Examples of how timing is handled

A student starts a quiz at noon. The quiz has a one-hour time-limit, and a 1 hour delay between attempts. The student gets distracted, and so actually does not submit (using the overdue handling) until 1:30pm. They are allowed to start their second attempt at 2. pm
The quiz count-down timer submits a student’s quiz attempt at the last second when time expires. Because the server is heavily loaded, it takes 30 seconds to process the student’s attempt. The submission is accepted nonetheless.
Same situation as above but with a 120 second delay: The submission is rejected.
The delay is not because of server load but because the student found a way to cheat the timer. Moodle cannot know what causes a delay. The behaviour is controlled by the admin setting (quiz | graceperiodmin), 60 seconds by default.
A student is a member of 3 groups, all of which have different override settings.
Which limits will apply to this student? If there is any user-specific override, then that is used, and the group overrides for that setting are not used at all. Otherwise, if there are multiple group overrides, the most generous values are used (the earliest open date, the latest close date, the longest time limit, the most number of attempts, and the student can type any of the passwords).

Grade

Grade Category

If you have categories in your gradebook, select the one you wish the quiz to be in here.

Attempts Allowed

Students may be allowed to have multiple attempts at a quiz. This can help make the process of taking the quiz more of an educational activity rather than simply an assessment.

Note: You can change the allowed number of attempts for different groups or users in the Group or User override sections of the Quiz Administration settings block.

Grade to Pass

Here you can set a passing grade for the quiz. This may be connected with Activity completion and Conditional activities such that a student will not be able to access a follow up activity until they have passed the quiz.

Grading Method

When multiple attempts are allowed, there are different ways you can use the grades to calculate the student’s final grade for the quiz.

- Highest grade – the final grade is the highest (best) grade in any attempt
- Average grade – the final grade is the average (simple mean) grade of all attempts
- First grade – the final grade is the grade earned on the first attempt (other attempts are ignored)
- Last grade – the final grade is the grade earned on the most recent attempt only

Layout

New page

For longer quizzes it makes sense to stretch the quiz over several pages by limiting the number of questions per page. When adding questions to the quiz, page breaks will automatically be inserted according to the setting you choose here. However, you will also be able to move page breaks around by hand later on the editing page.

Note that changing this setting has no effect on questions you have already added to the quiz. The setting will only apply to questions you add subsequently. To change the page breaks in an existing quiz, you need to go to the quiz editing screen, tick the ‘Show page breaks’ checkbox, then use the repaginate control.

If you have many questions that use many high definition images and the server suffers performance issues, showing only one question per page is easier on the server that showing many (or all) questions in one page.

Navigation method (available by clicking Show More)

Choose Sequential instead of Free, if you want to force the student to progress through the questions in order and not go back to a previous question or skip to a later one.

Question Behaviour

How questions behave

This is the primary way to control the experience to student has as they interact with each question in the quiz. If you want students to get immediate feedback on their response, with a chance to try again, if they get it wron, then select ‘Interactive with mulitple tries’ (and add some hints to your questions). If you want to replicate a traditional exam, select ‘Deferred feedback’. In other situations, the other options can be useful. For a description of all the behaviours, see Question behaviours.

Allow redo within an attempt (available by clicking “Show more”)

If using Interactive or Immediate feedback mode, enabling this setting means students can try a question again even if they have used up their allowed attempts. This is helpful if they wish to learn from the feedback given at the end of their attempts. They will be given a different question from the one they were working on previously if there are other questions available. A student’s grade for that question slot is based on the most recent question they have started.

Each attempt builds on the last (available by clicking “Show more”)

If multiple attempts are allowed and this setting is set to Yes, then each new attempt contains the results of the previous attempt. This allows the student on the new attempt to concentrate on just those questions that were answered incorrectly on the previous attempt. If this option is chosen then each attempt by a particular student uses the same questions in the same order, independent of randomization settings. To show a fresh quiz on every attempt, select No for this setting.

Review Options

(These settings are collapsed by default)

This section controls what information students will be shown when they review their past attempts at the quiz, and during the attempt in adaptive mode. It is a matrix with check boxes.

The various pieces of information that can be controlled are:

The attempt

Will show how the student responded to each question.

Whether correct

Displays whether the student’s response to each question is correct or incorrect.

Marks

Reveals the marks awarded to the student and the grade for the quiz.

Specific feedback

Will show the feedback for the response to the answer as set when adding the question to the quiz. Each response to a question can have feedback for both correct and incorrect answers.

General feedback

Displays the general feedback for the whole question as set when adding the question to the quiz. You can use the general feedback to give students some background to what knowledge the question was testing.

Right answer

Reveals the correct answer to each question, whether the student answered correctly or not (See note below).

Overall feedback

Displays feedback for the entire quiz as set in the quiz settings (See note below).

For each of the above items, you can determine the timeframe when the students will see them:

During the attempt

is only available when ‘How questions behave’ has been set to ‘Immediate feedback’, ‘Immediate feedback with CBM’ and ‘Interactive with multiple tries’. If set to one of these options then a ‘Check’ button will appear below the answer and when clicked the student will submit that response and then receive immediate feedback.

Immediately after the attempt

Means within 2 minutes of the student clicking “submit all and finish”.

Later, while the quiz is still open

means after 2 minutes, but before the close date (if the quiz does not have a close date, this phase never ends).

After the quiz is closed

means what it says (you never get here for quizzes without a close date).

Tip: Checking any of the boxes in the timeframe row, will reveal the test to the student. For example, to allow students to see their quiz immediately after taking it but not later, make sure none of the boxes in “Later” or “After” rows are checked. The student will be able to see their grade but not get into the quiz.

Note: Currently, the Answers display is a bit inconsistent between different question types. For example, the matching question type shows students which of their responses are correct, but does not tell them the right answer for the ones they got wrong. The short answer and multiple choices question types do tell the student what the correct answer is.

Users with the capability ‘View hidden grades’ moodle/grade:viewhidden (typically teachers and administrators) are not affected by these settings and will always by able to review all information about a student’s attempt at any time.

In your list of review options, you must have ‘The attempt’ (the first option in the lists) selected before you can enable the options to show ‘Whether correct’, ‘Specific feedback’, ‘General feedback’, and ‘Right answer’. If you choose not to let the students review the attempt, your only options are to display ‘Marks’ and ‘Overall feedback’.

Appearance

Show the user’s picture

It is now possible, when displaying the user’s profile picture for proctoring purposes, to choose whether a large image or thumbnail will be displayed.

Decimal places in grades

This option determines how many digits will be shown after the decimal separator (see langconfig ) when the grade is displayed. A setting of 0 for example means that the grades are displayed as integers. This setting is only used for the display of grades, not for the display or marking of answers.

Extra Restrictions on Attempts

Require password

If you specify a password in here then participants must enter the same password before they are allowed to make an attempt on the quiz. This is useful to give only a selected group of students access to the quiz. If you have many users taking one simultaneous quiz, it may help to assign a very long password to the quiz, so that the load on the server is spread over time (see this forum thread).

Require network address

You can restrict access for a quiz to particular subnets on the LAN or Internet by specifying a comma-separated list of partial or full IP address numbers. This is especially useful for a proctored (invigilated) quiz, where you want to be sure that only people in a certain room are able to access the quiz. For example: 192.168. , 231.54.211.0/20, 231.3.56.211

There are three types of numbers you can use (you can not use text based domain names like example.com):

Full IP addresses, such as 192.168.10.1 which will match a single computer (or proxy).
Partial addresses, such as 192.168 which will match anything starting with those numbers.
CIDR notation, such as 231.54.211.0/20 which allows you to specify more detailed subnets.

Spaces are ignored.

Enforced delay between attempts

You can set a time (from seconds to weeks) between the first and second attempt of a quiz. You can also (or alternatively) set a time from seconds to weeks for subsequent attempts after the second attempt. Thus, you might allow a student to take the quiz twice immediately with no delay, but if they want to improve their score with a third attempt, they are forced to wait a week and use the time for extra revision.

Browser security

This is by default an advanced field, visible by clicking “Show advanced”.

The options in this section offer various ways to try to restrict how students may try to ‘cheat’ while attempting a quiz. However, this is not a simple issue, and what in one situation is considered ‘cheating’ may, in another situation, just be effective use of information technology. (For example, the ability to quickly find answers using a search engine.)

Note also that this is not just at problem of technology with a technical solution. Cheating has been going on since long before computers, and while computers make certain actions, like copy and paste, easier, they also make it easier for teachers to detect cheating – for example using the quiz reports. The options provided here are not fool-proof, and while they do make some forms of cheating harder for students, they also make it more inconvenient for students to attempt the quizzes, and they are not fool-proof.

Full screen pop-up with some JavaScript security

There is a limit to what the quiz, which runs on a web server, can do to restrict what the student sitting at their computer can do while attempting the quiz. However, this option does what is possible:

Student view of quiz question with full screen popup.

The quiz will only start if the student has a JavaScript-enabled web-browser.
The quiz appears in a full screen popup window that covers all the other windows and has no course navigation controls. (However, it is impossible for a web site to create a browser window that cannot be minimised or moved aside.)
The students are prevented, as far as is possible, from using facilities like copy and paste.

Require the use of Safe Exam Browser

This option will only appear if your administrator has enabled it in Site administration > Development > Experimental > Experimental settings.

Safe Exam Browser is a customised web browser that must be downloaded and installed on the computer that the student uses to attempt the quiz. It restricts student use more effectively than a pop up window option. Features include full screen, without web navigation options, shortcut keys including copy and paste are disabled and of course surfing the web during an exam.

Overall Feedback

Overall feedback is shown to a student after they have completed an attempt at the quiz. The text that is shown can depend on the grade the student got. Click “Show editing tools” to display the rich text editor and drag the bottom right of the text box out to expand it.

For example, if you entered:

Grade boundary: 100%

Feedback: “Well done”

Grade boundary: 40%

Feedback: “Please study this week’s work again”

Grade boundary: 0%

Then students who score between 100% and 40% will see the “Well done” message, and those who score between 39.99% and 0% will see “Please study this week’s work again”. That is, the grade boundaries define ranges of grades, and each feedback string is displayed to scores within the appropriate range.

Grade boundaries can be specified either as a percentage, for example “31.41%”, or as a number, for example “7”. If your quiz is out of 10 marks, a grade boundary of 7 means 7/10 or better.

Note that the maximum and minimum grade boundaries (100% and 0%) are set automatically.

You can set as many or as few grade boundaries as you wish. The form allows you up to 5 ranges at first, but you can add more by clicking the “Add 3 fields to form” button underneath.

If you’re getting confusing error messages about a boundary being out of sequence (when it’s obviously *in* sequence), or “boundaries must be between 0% and 100%” (and they are) — check that the Maximum Grade for this quiz is set to something greater than zero.

Outcomes

This setting will only appear if Outcomes have been enabled by the administrator and are used in the course. See Outcomes for how to remove an outcome once it has been added to a quiz.

Common Module Settings

(These settings are collapsed by default) See Common module settings

Restrict access/Activity completion

(These settings are collapsed by default)

The Restrict access and Activity completion settings are visible if Conditional activities and Activity completion have been enabled in the site and the course.

Quiz Completion

The following automatic activity completion conditions apply to the quiz:

Require view – the student clicks on the quiz to view it

Require grade – the student obtains a grade

Require a passing grade – a ‘Grade to pass’ is specified for the quiz in the gradebook.

All available attempts completed – a certain number of attempts were allowed on the quiz and the student has completed them all.

Group and User Overrides

Dates, timing and number of allowed attempts may be changed for individual users or groups by following the links Group Overrides or User Overrides in Quiz administration. In situations where two group overrides may apply to a single user, the most lenient date is used. For “Open the quiz” dates, this means the earliest possible date is used, for “Close the quiz” dates, this means that the latest possible date is used Note also that if there exists a user override for a student, it will always take precedence over any group overrides.

Group overrides

To change a quiz setting for a particular group, click the “add group override” button in Quiz Administration>Group overrides, make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

User overrides

To change a quiz setting for a particular user or users, click the “add user override”button in Quiz Administration>User overrides, make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

Site Administration Settings

The quiz module has additional settings which may be changed by an administrator in Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Quiz.

The time period settings for a quiz (such as time limit, submission grace period, autosave period and so on) can be set here with a duration of seconds, minutes, hours, days or weeks. These defaults will then be used when new quizzes are created.

Autosave period

If enabled, student responses will be saved at regular period according to the selection here. the default is one minute. This is useful so that students don’t lose work but does increase the load on the server.

How questions behave can be configured in Site administration > Plugins > Question behaviours > Manage question behaviours.

How a Moodle Quiz Works

Note: If you’re new to quiz creation, try the Quiz quick guide first.

Once a quiz has been added to the course and the Quiz settings established,the teacher can start to build the quiz. The teacher can access the quiz to edit the questions by clicking directly on the Quiz name on the course home page or by clicking “Edit quiz” in Administration>Quiz administration. (You can also make questions in the Question bank without first creating a quiz. These questions may then be used later.)

Adding Questions

Once you have accessed the quiz editing screen as above, you can add questions from a number of locations:

1. Click the ‘Add’ link as in the screenshot below. (Note that in the US, the term ‘marks’ is replaced by ‘points’.)
2. When it opens up, choose either to add a new question, to select a question from the question bank or to add a random question.

Creating a New Question

1. To make a brand new question, click ‘Add’ and then ‘+ a new question’.

2. From the next screen, choose the question type you want to add and click “Next” (‘When you click on a question type on the left, helpful information appears on the right).

3. Fill in the question form, making sure to give a grade to the correct answer.

4. Click “Save changes”.

Note: If you have a very complex question, and you want to check it as you go along, you can preview it and then click “Save changes and continue editing”.

When a question has been created, an icon and words display its type (eg multiple choice). It can be modified by clicking the edit icon and previewed by clicking the magnifying glass icon.

As well as deleting individual questions with the delete (bin/trash can) icon, it is possible to delete more than one question by pressing the ‘Select multiple items’ button and choosing the questions to be removed:

Adding Responses and Feedback

5. When you add responses and feedback, remember you can expand the toolbar to show more buttons.

6. You can continue adding questions this way, clicking ‘Add’ and ‘+ a new question’ each time.

Choosing a Pre-made Question

- If other teachers in the course have made questions, or if a teacher made questions in an earlier quiz, these can be added to the current quiz by clicking ‘Add’ and ‘+ from question bank’
- Click the + sign next to one question you want to add it (1 in screenshot below)
- If you have several questions, or you want to add all the questions, tick the box of each question or the top box (2 in screenshot below) and then click ‘Add selected questions to the quiz’ (3 in the screenshot below).
- To sort the questions, click the column headings. The default sort order (T) is short for question type. (2 in the screenshot below)
- To ensure all previously made questions are available, make sure to tick the boxes “also show questions from sub-categories/old questions”.

Note: It is also possible to import pre-made questions into your quiz, from Quiz administration>Question bank>Import. See Import questions for more information. Sample questions are available from the Moodle.net content database.

Adding a Random Question

As long as you have questions in the question bank, you can add random questions to your quiz by clicking ‘Add’ and then ‘+ a random question’. This might be useful if you have students in a class taking a quiz at the same time, because they are unlikely to get the same questions at the same time. The same question will never appear twice in a quiz. If you include several random questions then different questions will always be chosen for each of them. If you mix random questions with non-random questions then the random questions will be chosen so that they do not duplicate one of the non-random questions. This does imply that you need to provide enough questions in the category from which the random questions are chosen, otherwise the student will be shown a friendly error message. The more questions you provide the more likely it will be that students get different questions on each attempt. When a quiz with random questions is retaken, the random questions will be different from the ones in previous attempts. For a discussion on the behaviour of random questions, see MDL-6340

The grade for the randomly chosen question will be re-scaled so that the maximum grade is what you have chosen as the grade for the random question.

You can add one or more random questions by choosing the number and category in the question bank. Note the die icon to highlight random question selection. Random questions may be filtered by tag and New in 3.5 a list of random questions will be displayed when filtered.

Note: If you add random questions and your category of questions contains more than 10 different questions, when you look at the quiz statistics report related to position 1, it will not show them all on the front page of the report, just a summary, and then you have to click a link to drill down into the details (the report MDL-48092 is about the fact that working out which link to click is too difficult).

Quiz question tags

Questions may be tagged as they are created (as well as from the Question bank). Questions may be searched and filtered by tag in the Question bank and when adding random questions, as above.

Question Categories

Questions can be stored and retrieved from categories in the Question bank. When you make a new question it defaults to the category with the course name. So if you make a quiz in the Senior Physics course, questions will automatically be added to “Default for Senior Physics”. You can opt to have your quiz questions in a category of their own (“Quizname”) or to add a subcategory.

To add a subcategory, go to Administration>Quiz administration>Question bank>Categories. For more information on question contexts and categories, see Question bank

Users will have access to different categories according to their permissions. For example, a regular teacher might only have access to question categories in his own Physics course whereas his Faculty Head of Science with permissions in all science courses might have access to question categories in Biology and Chemistry as well.

Quiz Layout

You can choose in the Layout section of the quiz settings whether to have a new page for every question or after a certain number of questions.
You can add a page break between questions by clicking the arrow icon (where the arrows are pointing away from each other) (1 in the screenshot below) A new page will be created. (2 in the screenshot below)
You can remove pages by clicking the arrow icon (where the arrows are pointing towards each other). (3 in the screenshot below)

You can also change the layout of the whole quiz by clicking the ‘Repaginate’ button:

Questions may be moved by dragging and dropping using the crosshairs icon:

Section Headings

Section headings may be added to each new page.
For the first page, click the ‘pencil’ icon at the top (1) and add your heading (2):

For other pages, click the ‘Add’ link (1) and choose ‘a new section heading’ (2), and then add your heading as for Page 1:

The section headings are displayed in the Quiz navigation block:

Randomising the Order Questions Appear

The order in which questions appear to the student may be randomised or ‘shuffled’ by ticking the ‘Shuffle’ box at the top of the screen:

Where questions are in different sections (see Section headings above), each section has its own ‘Shuffle’ box to tick. This means that you can mix up questions on one section, but in another section, where their order is important, you can keep them in the order you need them to display:

Making Questions Conditional Upon Other Questions

If using the Interactive with multiple tries or Immediate Feedback behaviour and with the navigation method set to ‘Free’, it is possible to make the display of a question dependent on a previous question being answered first.
The question editing page will display padlock icons to the right of each question:

If you want to make a question, for example Q2, conditional upon answering Q1, then click the padlock just above Q2:

When a student accesses the quiz, they will see a message that Q2 is not available until they give a response to Q1:

In the Quiz navigation block, Q2 will be greyed out:

In the following example, note that, Q1 follows a description, and a description ‘questions’ cannot be finished. Therefore, Q1 cannot depend on the previous question. Similarly, Q4 follows an Essay question. The Essay cannot be finished during the attempt, so the following question cannot depend on it. Note the lack of padlocks in the following screenshot because of the description and Essay question:

Assigning Points to Questions

Administration > Quiz administration > Edit quiz > Editing quiz

You can set how many points each question is worth by changing the number in the box to the right of each question and you can change the maximum grade by changing the number in the box top right at the top of the quiz. The default is one point per question and 100.00 maximum grade.

The quiz module will do any maths, so for example, a 2-point question will be worth 2 times more when the Quiz module determines how many point out of 10 to award the student.

Previewing the Quiz

You can preview individual questions by clicking the magnifying glass icon.
You can preview the whole quiz by clicking the “Preview” link in Administration>Quiz administration>Preview
The quiz works like a real quiz so you can see your grades and any feedback for correct/incorrect answers just as a student would see them.

NOTE: To get a more accurate view of how a student would view your quiz, it is advised to log in with a “dummy” student account created by the admin for testing activities. This is more reliable than the ‘switch role to student’ feature.

See also the question: ‘How can a teacher ‘-dry run a quiz..?’ in Quiz FAQ.

After Quiz Has Been Attempted

If one or more students have taken the quiz, you will see a list of all the questions in the quiz and a notice saying that you cannot add or remove questions.

You can change the order of questions, regrade them, preview an individual question and click on an question edit link that will allow you to directly edit the question stored in the question bank.

Note: You can delete all quiz attempts by students and then edit the quiz as if no students had attempted it. To do this,click the quiz name and then the Results link in the Administration block. This will present a list of students and their scores. Click “Select all” and then “Delete selected attempts”.

Dealing With Faulty Questions

There are several ways to deal with “bad” questions in a quiz.

Change the grade for the bad question to 0 in the quiz.
Edit the question, changing what you will accept as a correct answer, then regrading the exam. Remember when changing a question that the next time it is used it will be as it was in the last edit. Also, regrading will only affect one quiz at a time.
You can edit the question to explain the situation to the student and then you can set the grade for the question to zero. After you make such changes you should regrade the quiz by clicking on the Results tab and then the Regrade tab. This will change the grade for all students who have taken the quiz so far. Remember, if the question is used by another quiz, your “explanation” will appear as part of that quiz.
You can change the grade for the bad question and then move or delete the question from your question category. The question will still appear on the quiz. Some places do not like to delete any question, but will move them to a “dead” or “bad” question category.
When you discover a bad question in your quiz, it may affect the question bank. Remember that a final might be made up of a certain number of random questions drawn from different question categories, the same categories used in a smaller subject quiz. It can be very important do something about bad or invalid questions in a question category when the categories are use in other places.

Quiz Reports

Grades Report

Grade reports shows all the students’ quiz attempts, with the overall grade, and the grade for each question. There are links to review all the details of a student’s attempt, just as the student would see it.

There is a setting form at the top of the page that can be used to control what is displayed.

The teacher can select from:

enrolled users who have attempted the quiz;
enrolled users who have not attempted the quiz;
enrolled users who have, or have not, attempted the quiz;
all users who have attempted the quiz

The results can be downloaded in a variety of formats.

There is a setting form at the top of the page that can be used to control what is displayed.

At the bottom of the page is a graph showing the distribution of scores.

There are check boxes to allow you to individually regrade or delete the selected attempts.

By clicking on the score link, you are able to look at an individual student exam.

Responses Report

This is very similar to the Grades report, except that it shows the responses the students gave, rather than the marks they earned.

It is also possible to show the question text or the right answer, to compare with the student’s response. This is helpful when the question is randomised.

For quizzes with interactive question behaviour, it is possible to display responses for the first, last or all tries a student makes:

Statistics Report

This report gives a statistical (psychometric) analysis of the quiz, and the questions within it. The front page of this report gives a summary of the whole test. There are then links to drill down into a detailed analysis of a particular question.

The full report (overview, and detailed analysis of all questions) can be downloaded in a variety of formats, as can the quiz structure analysis table.

Please refer to Quiz statistics report for more detailed information about the different types of statistics that can be gathered via this link.

Manual Grading Report

The Quiz manual grading report makes it easy to manually grade questions in the quiz.

The first screen of the report lists all the questions in the quiz that need to be, or have been, manually graded (for example essay questions) with the number of attempts. There is an option to also show the questions that have been automatically graded, which if useful if you ever need to edit the grades by hand.

For more information on Moodle Quiz, please click here.