Channell Walker

A Moodle quiz is an activity that can be added to a week/section for student interaction and assessment. Quizzes can fill multiple roles in a course. Use them to check understanding, a short quiz or even an exam.

Access the Quiz

1. Login with your NetID and password at moodle.rutgers.edu
   
2. Go to  the course you want to edit
3. Once in the course, turn editing on
   
4. Then, scroll down to the lesson or week to which you want to add the quiz and click on “+ Add activity or resource”
   
5. Choose “Quiz” from the list of activities
   

 

General

1. 1. Input quiz name
      
   2. Include a description (this is optional)
      
   3. If you want the description to be displayed on the course page then check the box next to “Display description on course”.
      

 

Timing

1. Open the quiz – check enable box then input the open date
   
2. Close the quiz – check enable box then input the close date
   
3. Time limit – (optional) check enable then put in the time
   
4. When time expires:
   

• • • Open attempts are submitted automatically
      
    • There is a grace period when attempts can be submitted, but no more questions can be answered.
      
    • Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not counted.
      

 

Grade

1. 1. Grade Category
      

• • • This needs to be created in your grade book first, but it is not necessary for quizzes to be graded. Then you can choose that category in this section

• • • Add  a Grade to Pass
      
    • Attempts allowed – unlimited or 1-10
      
    • Grading method
      

1. 1. 1. 1. Highest grade
            
         2. Average Grade
            
         3. First attempt
            
         4. Last attempt
            

 

Layout

1. New Page – This setting allows you to determine the layout of the quiz in terms of whether the questions will be split into multiple pages like a book. It is recommended that questions be displayed 5 to a page to limit the amount of work lost in case of a glitch or sudden outage, but you do have the choice from the following:
   
   • Never, all questions on one page
     
   • Every question
     
   • Choose between every 2-50 questions. The recommended number is 5 to avoid losing too much information during a glitch.
2. Navigation Method – This setting allows you to determine how students will be able to progress through the quiz. It is recommended to set this to Free because it allows students to skip questions and go back later just as they would a paper version, but you do have the choice of the following options:
   

1. 1. 1. 1. Free
            
         2. Sequential – cannot return to previous pages nor skip ahead.
            

 

Question Behavior

1. Allows you to determine how the questions will be displayed for every student or attempt.
2. Shuffle within Questions: This randomizes the answer options for each question. For example, students can sit next to each other and have different answers for the “A” option. This discourages cheating.
3. How Questions Behave: This setting is about question or quiz feedback. You may want students to receive feedback only after completing the quiz (Deferred Feedback) or you may want them to know immediately if the answer to a question is wrong (Immediate Feedback) and have multiple tries to get it right (Interactive with multiple tries).
4. Allow redo within an attempt: Once the student has answered a question, a redo button will appear which will allow the student to attempt to answer the question again without having to submit the whole quiz and opening another attempt. This setting is more useful for practice questions or low-stakes knowledge check quizzes.
5. Each attempt builds on the last: A student can work towards getting a better grade on the quiz with each attempt by allowing the results of the last attempt to be visible as the student does a new attempt.

 

Review Options

1. The review options control the information provided to students after completing a quiz or attempt. 
2. Go through the categories and check the boxes that best suit your desired feedback method. Think of each category as this question, “What are students allowed to see ____?”

• • • During the attempt
      
    • Immediately after the attempt
      
    • Later, while the quiz is still open
      
    • After the quiz is closed
      

 

Appearance

1. Show the User’s Picture: You can choose to have the profile pictures of the user displayed during the quiz.
   
2. Decimal Places in Question Grades: If you choose to use points for the grade, you can choose how many decimal places there are in the score. For example, 20.50 or 66.333.
3. Show Blocks During Quiz Attempts: Show the blocks in the sidebar from your course main page while students are taking the quiz. 

 

Extra Restrictions on Attempts

1. Require Password: Make the quiz accessible only to students who have the password. 
2. Require Network Address: Make sure students only use the university’s internet by inputting the IP address here.
3. Enforced delay between 1st and 2nd attempts: Require the students to take a certain amount of time between quiz attempts. You can choose between seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks. 
4. Enforced delay between later attempts: This setting is for 3+ attempts. You can require students to take a certain amount of time between quiz attempts. You can choose between seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks. 
5. Browser Security: The quiz opens in a pop-up window and prevents students from searching for the answers on the internet, but only works if the student has a java-script enabled browser.
6. Allow quiz to be attempted offline using the mobile app: If the students download the app to access the course, they can still take the quiz even without internet access. 

 

Overall Feedback

Give overall feedback for the quiz after the student’s attempt. You can choose to have the feedback display immediately after the attempt or after the quiz is closed. Just input the grade you would like to give feedback on in the grade boundary box and type in the feedback in the text box. You can add more feedback boxes by clicking on the “Add 3 more feedback fields” button.

 

Common Module Settings

1. Visible – make sure it is set to show. That way students can see the forum.
   
2. Group mode – you will use this feather if you have already created groups.
   
   

 

Restrict Access and Activity completion

• Allows you to release the assignment to students using a set of conditions. This is not necessary if you have an open and close date set. Activity completion gives you choices on how the assignment will be marked complete on the course page.
  
• Click on “Save and display” to move on to adding quiz questions.