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Moodle 1.9: New Question Categories and Moving Questions

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An instructor sent in an email asking about re-organizing his question categories. He first created a quiz with a new Top-level Activity Question Category and wanted to move those questions to the default question category for the course.

To do this he first had to create a new category within the Course Category:

  1. On the homepage of your course, go to the Administration block.
  2. Choose Questions from the list.
  3. Select the Categories tab.
  4. You should see the header, Question Categories for ‘Course: [Insert course name here]. This let’s you know that you are going to edit categories for the course and not for a specific activity. 
  5. Scroll down to the bottom to the Add Category box.
  6. For Parent, choose ‘Top.’ This adds the category as a top level category in the course.
  7. Give the category a title and the category info is optional. 
  8. Click the ‘Add Category’ button.
  9. You should see the new category at the bottom of the list for your course question categories. If your course has multiple pages of categories, then go to the last page to see the new category. 
  10. You can use the arrows next to the category title to move it to a different place in the list. 

Then he had to move multiple questions from the Activity Category to the Course Category:

  1. To move questions from an Activity Category to a Course Category:
  2. Go to the Quiz and click on the edit icon. This will take you to the quiz settings.
  3. Scroll down to the bottom and click on the ‘Save and Display’ button
  4. Under the tabs, click on the Export link.
  5. The header should say, Export Questions to File
  6. For file format, select Moodle XML format
  7. Then for Category, choose the old category with the questions you want to move.
  8. Leave boxes checked.
  9. Click on the ‘Export questions to file’ button.
  10. This will open a page with the questions about to be exported.
  11. Click on the continue button.
  12. You’ll see the Question Bank with the exported questions at the bottom. 
  13. Under the Action column, check the boxes next to each question.
  14. Under With Selected, choose the new category where you want to move the questions.
  15. Click the ‘Move to >>’ button.
  16. Your questions are now listed in the new category. You should see the number questions in parentheses increase by the number of questions added.

Moodle 2.8: Manually Grade an Essay Question

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Most of the quiz question options are graded automatically, but essay questions require manual grading.

  1. Go to your course and navigate to Grades.
  2. In the Grader report, find the quiz you want to grade and click on the quiz name at the top of the grade column.
  3. Scroll down the page until you see the class roster.
  4. For each student, find the question marked with “Requires grade” and click on it. This will open the question in a separate window.
  5. Scroll down until you see “Make a comment or override points” and click on the link.
  6. You will be able to write a comment or give feedback in the text box.
  7. Under the text box is a box to input points. Type in the numbers of points earned.
  8. Click “Save”. Back in the grader report, you should see the question now has a point value.

Moodle 2.8: Add Quiz Questions

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Save and Display

  1. Once you have the Quiz settings finished, click on the “Save and Display” button to move onto adding quiz questions or, on the main course page, click on the quiz’s edit link to add quiz questions.
  2. Click on “Edit Quiz” button.
  3. Over on the right-hand side, click on the “add” drop-down menu.
  4. Choose new question.
  5. You also have the option of adding questions from a question bank or adding a random question from a question bank.
  6. Choose the type of question you want from the list. Select a multiple choice question for this example.
  7. Then click on the Add Button.

 

General Section

  1. Either leave the category as a default or select a different category for the quiz.
  2. Input the question name. This is a descriptive name to help you find it in a question bank. It is not going to be seen by students.
  3. Question text: This is where you type in the question students are going to answer.
  4. Input the default points for the question.
  5. General feedback – This is shown to all students after the quiz is complete. No matter what grade was earned.
  6. Choose whether this question has one or multiple answers.
  7. Check the box if you want to shuffle the choices.
  8. Then select the way the choices will be listed: abcd, ABCD, 1234, etc. 

 

Answers

  1. You already have 4 choices available, but you do not have to use all of them and you can always add more if you need them.
  2. For each choice, you will type in the answer option:

    • Then, choose how much that option is worth in the grade drop-down menu.

      • One answer = 100%
      • Two answers = 50%
      • Three answers = 33.33%
    • Then you have the option to supply feedback based on each answer.

 

Combined Feedback

You can provide feedback based on general conditions such as any correct response, partially correct response, and incorrect response.

 

Multiple Tries

  1. When you set a quiz up with “Interactive with multiple tries” or “adaptive mode” then this section will allow you to customize how much of a percentage will be taken off for each incorrect try.
  2. You can also provide students with hints to help them choose the correct answer. You can also let them see the number of correct responses and/or clear away the incorrect responses.

 

Tags

This helps find the question in a bank like the question name. So if you’ve forgotten the name you can search by keywords.

  1. Click on “Save Changes” to add another question.

 

Add Another Quiz Question

  1. Click on Save Changes” to add more questions. This will take you back to the Edit Quiz page and you should see the question listed. Repeat the “Add questions” steps to add more.
  2. From the Quiz Edit Page, you can reorder the questions using the cross icon on the left of the question.
  3. Delete the question using the trashcan icon to the right of the question.
  4. Edit the question’s points by clicking on the pencil icon in the points box and type in the new point value.
  5. View the quiz question by clicking on the magnifying glass icon. This will take you to a popup window with the question edit page.
    • Short answer questions require you to grade them manually so you would go in and give points.
    • Once you make a quiz with questions then you’ll be able to see it in the grade book automatically.

Moodle 2.8: Quiz Settings

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

 

Moodle 1.9: Quizzes and Quiz Questions

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How to Add a Quiz

  1. Edit your Moodle 1.9 course by clicking the “Turn Editing On” button at the top-right corner of the course page.
  2. Go to the section you want to add a quiz and choose “Quiz” from the “Add an activity” dropdown menu.
  3. Give the quiz a name that will be displayed on the course page.
  4. Include instructions for the quiz in the Introduction text box.
  5. In the Display section, choose the number of questions to be displayed at one time. If the quiz has 10+ questions, then display no more than 5 questions at a time to reduce the risk of a glitch that will cause participants to lose all their progress. For quizzes with 6-9 questions, show 2-3 questions at a time.
  6. If you want the questions in the quiz to be randomized then change “Shuffle Questions” and “Shuffle within Questions” to Yes.
  7. You can allow participants to retake the quiz by setting the number of allowed attempts. The default is set to Unlimited which means participants can retake the quiz as much as they want to get a better grade.
  8. For the Review Options section, check all the boxes under the categories that best suit your grading window for participants to receive feedback for the quiz. This feedback includes quiz scores. So, if you want participants to know their scores immediately after taking the quiz, then check the scores box under “Immediately after the attempt.”
  9. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on “Save and Display” button to add questions to the quiz.

Add Questions to a Quiz

  1. The screen is split here. On the left, you see the questions in the quiz. For a new quiz, there should not be any questions yet. On the right, you see the question bank. There may be questions listed here if you have quizzes created in the course.
  2. We recommend creating a new category (kind of like a folder) for each new quiz to keep things organized. To create a new category, go up to the tabs and just underneath select “Categories.”
  3. At the bottom of that page, there is the Add category section. For the parent category, you can choose to have the new category nested under the default for your course or choose to have it set at the top. We recommend setting it to Top to reduce mistakes.
  4. Give the category a name that matches the quiz name, then click on the “Add category” button.
  5. Back at the quiz edit page, choose the new category from the Category dropdown menu.
  6. For “Create new question,” choose the question type from the dropdown menu. The different question types have different fields and settings to go through. Click on the yellow question mark icons to find out more about the options.

Multiple Choice Question Type:

      1. Give the question a name. Make sure this is descriptive of the question so you can find it easily if the quiz is ever set to randomize the questions. Do not name a question, Quiz 1 Question 2. Instead try, “Stroke-like symptoms” or “T/F: Dial 2-7000 Stanley Bergen Building.” This allows anyone who needs to make changes to the course to find questions quickly.
      2. To randomize answer options, make sure the “Shuffle the choices?” box is checked.   
      3. Choices in Moodle are the answer option. Be careful in these sections because you might just add an answer option to the feedback field and it will not appear in the quiz. Each choice has the Answer field where you input the answer option to be displayed. Then, there’s the Grade dropdown menu where you will choose the percentage of the points awarded. If only one answer is required, then the grade percentage is set to 100%, 50% for two-answer questions, and 33.33% for three-answer questions. Provide feedback based on the answer chosen by typing that information in the feedback text box.
      4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
      5. Overall feedback is feedback that is given for general answers for that specific question.
  2. When you are done with the question settings, click on the “Save Changes” button. This will take you back to the quiz editing page and the new question will be listed in the question bank area. Click on the << icon to add that question to the quiz. Or click on the “select all” link and the “Add to quiz” button when all the quiz questions have been added to the bank.
  3. In the Questions in this quiz section, find the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the question list. Then you can leave the quiz editing page.

To Edit a quiz question

Route #1

  1. Turn editing on in your course, then find the quiz on the course page.
  2. Click on the edit icon, this will take you to the quiz settings page. That’s not where we want to be, so scroll down to the bottom and click on the “Save and display” button.
  3. Now, we can edit questions. Find the question you want to edit.
  4. Click on the edit icon, make your changes, and be sure to save.
  5. You can preview the question by clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the question on the Questions in this quiz area.
  6. Save changes to the quiz before exiting the page.

Route #2

  1. Find Questions listed in the sidebar of the course.
  2. Choose the category and find the question you want to edit, click on the edit icon, make your changes, and be sure to save.
  3. You can preview the question by clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the question.

 

Moodle 1.9: Basic Instructions to Edit Course

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How to Edit a Moodle 1.9 Course

  1. You can edit your Moodle 1.9 course easily by clicking the “Turn Editing On” button at the top-right corner of the course page.
  2. From there, you can edit a section of the course by clicking on the icon of a hand holding a pencil. It’s a little difficult to see.
  3. To hide a section, use the the eye icon. This will hide the section’s content from training participants, but the instructor and support roles will be able to see and access the content.

Add a PDF or other file

  1. Use the “Add a resource” dropdown menu and select ‘Link to a file or website.” TIP: If you are adding a file, go to files in the sidebar first, add the file to your course files bank then go to “Add a resource” to add the link to the course. You can upload files in the Add a Resource menu, but it may take a little longer for the pages to load and upload.
    • Give the item a name that will be displayed on the course page.
    • The summary is where you can add instructions or a note to the students about the link/file.
    • Paste the website URLin the Location text box or click on the “Choose or Upload a File” button to add a file.
  2. In the Window section of the Link to a File or Website settings page, the only settings to change are the Window dropdown menu and the Show Navigation menu. It is set to the default of opening the link or file in a new window. We recommend keeping this default setting for accessibility, but you can change it to open in the same window.
  3. When the file opens in the same window you can set it to show with the course navigation. Choose “With Frame” to have a grey bar across the screen separating the file from the navigation. Or choose “Without Frame” to have the navigation appear without the grey bar.
  4. Scroll down to the bottom and click on “Save and Return to Course” or “Save and Display” to preview the link/file.

 

How to Add a Quiz to a Moodle 1.9 Course

  1. Go to the section you want to add a quiz and choose “Quiz” from the “Add an activity” dropdown menu.
  2. Give the quiz a name that will be displayed on the course page.
  3. Include instructions for the quiz in the Introduction text box.
  4. In the Display section, choose the number of questions to be displayed at one time. If the quiz has 10+ questions, then display no more than 5 questions at a time to reduce the risk of a glitch that will cause participants to lose all their progress. For quizzes with 6-9 questions, show 2-3 questions at a time.
  5. If you want the questions in the quiz to be randomized then change “Shuffle Questions” and “Shuffle within Questions” to Yes.
  6. You can allow participants to retake the quiz by setting the number of allowed attempts. The default is set to Unlimited which means participants can retake the quiz as much as they want to get a better grade.
  7. For the Review Options section, check all the boxes under the categories that best suit your grading window for participants to receive feedback for the quiz. This feedback includes quiz scores. So, if you want participants to know their scores immediately after taking the quiz, then check the scores box under “Immediately after the attempt.”
  8. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on “Save and Display” button to add questions to the quiz.

Add Questions to a Quiz

  1. The screen is split here. On the left, you see the questions in the quiz. For a new quiz, there should not be any questions yet. On the right, you see the question bank. There may be questions listed here if you have quizzes created in the course.
  2. We recommend creating a new category (kind of like a folder) for each new quiz to keep things organized. To create a new category, go up to the tabs and just underneath select “Categories.”
  3. At the bottom of that page, there is the Add category section. For the parent category, you can choose to have the new category nested under the default for your course or choose to have it set at the top. We recommend setting it to Top to reduce mistakes.
  4. Give the category a name that matches the quiz name, then click on the “Add category” button.
  5. Back at the quiz edit page, choose the new category from the Category dropdown menu.
  6. For “Create new question,” choose the question type from the dropdown menu. The different question types have different fields and settings to go through. Click on the yellow question mark icons to find out more about the options.

Multiple Choice Question Type:

      1. Give the question a name. Make sure this is descriptive of the question so you can find it easily if the quiz is ever set to randomize the questions. Do not name a question, Quiz 1 Question 2. Instead try, “Stroke-like symptoms” or “T/F: Dial 2-7000 Stanley Bergen Building.” This allows anyone who needs to make changes to the course to find questions quickly.
      2. To randomize answer options, make sure the “Shuffle the choices?” box is checked.   
      3. Choices in Moodle are the answer option. Be careful in these sections because you might just add an answer option to the feedback field and it will not appear in the quiz. Each choice has the Answer field where you input the answer option to be displayed. Then, there’s the Grade dropdown menu where you will choose the percentage of the points awarded. If only one answer is required, then the grade percentage is set to 100%, 50% for two-answer questions, and 33.33% for three-answer questions. Provide feedback based on the answer chosen by typing that information in the feedback text box.
      4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
      5. Overall feedback is feedback that is given for general answers for that specific question.
  2. When you are done with the question settings, click on the “Save Changes” button. This will take you back to the quiz editing page and the new question will be listed in the question bank area. Click on the << icon to add that question to the quiz. Or click on the “select all” link and the “Add to quiz” button when all the quiz questions have been added to the bank.
  3. In the Questions in this quiz section, find the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the question list. Then you can leave the quiz editing page.

To Edit a quiz question

Route #1

  1. Turn editing on in your course, then find the quiz on the course page.
  2. Click on the edit icon, this will take you to the quiz settings page. That’s not where we want to be, so scroll down to the bottom and click on the “Save and display” button.
  3. Now, we can edit questions. Find the question you want to edit.
  4. Click on the edit icon, make your changes, and be sure to save.
  5. You can preview the question by clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the question on the Questions in this quiz area.
  6. Save changes to the quiz before exiting the page.

Route #2

  1. Find Questions listed in the sidebar of the course.
  2. Choose the category and find the question you want to edit, click on the edit icon, make your changes, and be sure to save.
  3. You can preview the question by clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the question.

 

Add a Certificate to a Course

  1. Turn editing on in your course, then find the module where the certificate will be added on the course page.
  2. Open the “Add an activity” dropdown menu and choose “certificate” from the list.
  3. In the certificate settings, give your certificate a name.
  4. For the introduction section, type in any instructions for the participants. For example, “Download and print a copy of the certificate for your supervisor.”
  5. Under Issue Options, you can choose who to notify when a participant is issued a certificate.
    1. Keep the “Email Teachers” option set at ‘No’ because this will send emails to everyone in the course with a teacher role. Some support people have this role and do not need notifications about the certificates. Instead, add the specific emails of the person or people to be notified.
    2. Saving the certificates will keep the issued certificates in the system. This setting is not necessary as the system shows all issued certificates already, but you can set this option to ‘Yes’ if you are concerned.
  6. Locking Options will keep the certificate inaccessible to participants until certain requirements are met.
  7. REQUIRED COURSE GRADE: If every quiz and assignment needs to be completed and the total grade equals a specific percentage then change this option to ‘Yes.’ If the certificate requires a specific grade from one quiz or assignment then skip down to the “Dependent Activities” setting.
  8. DEPENDENT ACTIVITIES: Choose the assignment or quiz that needs to be seen or graded before the participant can access the certificate.
  9. Under the Linked Activity column, choose the activity from the dropdown menu. This menu will list all the activities in the course.
  10. Under Required Grade, set it to the grade percentage needed to access the certificate.
  11. TEXT OPTIONS: This is the information that will be printed on the certificate.
    • The most common information on certificates are:
      • Print date – yes
      • Date format – January 1, 2000
  12. DESIGN OPTIONS: This is how the certificate will look.
    • The most common settings for the design are:
    • Certificate type – Landscape
    • Border Image – (any of the blue or green)
    • Watermark Images – Fleur de Lis
    • Seal or Logo – Logo_small
  13. Save and display to preview the certificate and make sure it looks right. Make any changes if needed then click on Save and return to course.