Quiz activity Moodle 3.2

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Moodle 3.2 Quiz Module Help Guide
Quiz Module
Two ways to add quiz in your course:
1. Set up a quiz and then add questions
2. Add questions to question bank, set up quiz and pull
questions from question bank to the quiz.

Quiz Module Set up / Create quiz
1. Log into your Moodle site
2. Go to the course
3. Click “Turn editing on” ( Depending on the theme this
button color may vary, however by default it will be on
the top right corner of the page.
1. Go to topic in which you would like to create a quiz
2. Click on Add an activity or resource

Quiz Module Set up / Create quiz
6. A pop-up ( activity chooser) appears with
Activities and Resources ( depending upon your
admin settings various other types of activities
and resources will be available)
7. Choose Quiz from activities list.
8. Add button will be enabled with the activity
description, click add.

Quiz Module
9. In General section, give a name to the quiz
in Name field.
10. Give instructions to attempt the quiz details
in Description field.
There are around 13 sections (General, Timing,
Grade, Layout, Question Behaviour, Review
Options, Appearance, Extra Restrictions on
attempts, Overall feedback, Common module
settings, Restrict Access, activity completion
and Competencies) of the quiz which need to
be reviewed or modified.
Set up / Create quiz

Quiz Module
● You can go down and select either of these
save buttons and start adding questions.
● With default settings quiz will be accessible
to students and they can take any number
of times as they wish.
● Every question will be displayed in a
separate page.
● No feedback will be available until they
complete the quiz.
● They can move freely back and forth in
between the questions.
● To change default options, you need to
Expand all sections and modify them.

Quiz Module
General Section
Name of the quiz
Instructions to
attempt, number
attempts allowed,
passing grade etc.
details can be given
here.
Tick this box to make the
description available on
course page

Quiz Module
Timing Section
If you want your
students to access
the quiz at certain
time, click on enable
and set time and
date to open / close
the quiz . You can
also set a timed
quiz by enabling
time limit.
Enable and Set grace time to
allow for submission, but
responses can not be
changed

Quiz Module
Grade Section
Set, grade category ( as
per grade book), grade to
pass, number of attempts
allowed( 1-10) and grading
method ( Highest, Average,
First/ Last attempt)

Quiz Module
Layout Section
Various options like
Never ( all questions will beon
same page)
Every question ( each
question will appear in each
page)
Every 2 / 50 questions in a
page
Click on show more and set navigation method. Select “Free” to make students go
back and forth easily in between questions or restrict by selecting “Sequential”.

Quiz Module
Question Behaviour Section
You can select questions behaviour here.

Quiz Module
How questions behave?
● When shuffle question option is also set in questions, here yes option will
shuffle questions in the quiz for each attempt.
● Students can get feedback after each question or after submitting can be set in
how questions behave.
● Adaptive which enables number of attempts before moving to next question
● Interactive give students hints and Try again option.
● Similar to Interactive is Immediate but, students can give only response.
● Certainty based marking - here students will also mark how sure they are with
the response they ticked. ( Covered in another tutorial)
● Conditional questions option can display a question dependent upon previous
question being answered first.
● If multiple attempts are allowed and you want your students to see their previous
responses you set “each attempt builds on the last” to yes.
● If you want to give redo questions before finishing / submitting the quiz, you can
set questions behaviour as interactive with multiple tries and enable “Allow
redo within an attempt”

Quiz Module
Review options Section
● There are four categories of options to
set depending upon your questions
behaviour
● During the attempt options can be set
for interactive or multiple tries behaviour
type of questions quiz.
● Immediately after the attempt displays
review once Submit all and Finish button
is chosen.
● Later while quiz is still open displays
review before the quiz closes.
● After the quiz is closed - this works
only when you have set closing date to
the quiz.

Quiz Module
Appearance Section
● User picture display type ( small / large),
decimal points in grades ( only display
purpose of grades, not for internal
calculations or database entries stored)
decimal places in each question grades
can be set here.
● You can select whether various blocks of
the Moodle site / course to be displayed
during the quiz or not.

Quiz Module
Extra restrictions on attempts Section
● In this section you can set password to
your quiz and restrict the use of system
for the quiz attempt by specifying the
network address
● You can set the time delay between
attempts in multiple attempts quiz
● You can set security levels to certain
extent ( by setting browser security &
some site level administration work) and
can allow users to download the quiz and
attempt offline using mobile app and
sync results.

Quiz Module
Overall feedback Section
● Once the student completes the quiz
overall feedback is used to display
feedback depending upon the grade
he/she got.
● The text to be displayed can key in the
rich text editor below grade boundary. (
Grade boundary should be between 0-
100%)
● You can specify boundary as percentage
or number.
● Can include picture along with the text in
rich text editor
● You can add number of boundaries as
you wish

Quiz Module
Common module settings Section
● As the name suggest common module
settings to many modules
● Settings available in this section are:
○ Visibility of the activity
○ If groups are set at course level
those preferences
○ ID number which is useful for
gradebook calculations

Quiz Module
Restrict access Section
By clicking Add restriction... button a pop-up
appears with options that can be applied as
restriction select and follow the instructions
mentioned.

Quiz Module
Competencies Section
Course competency should be enabled by
admin at site level.
It is another broad topic which is discussed in
another lecture :).
PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO SAVE
Modifications by Clicking either of these
buttons.

Quiz Module
Adding Questions
Questions
Once you click on Save and display a page appears with quiz title, grading method and a button to edit quiz.
Click Edit quiz

Quiz Module
Adding Questions
Questions
Click on Add on the left corner to add questions. Here
three options will be there:
● A new question
● From question bank
● A random question

Quiz Module
Adding Questions
Questions
When you click on Add & select new question a pop-up
appears with default type of questions choose and click
add. When you select the question type you can view the
description of that type.

Moodle 3.2 Quiz Module Help GuideQuiz Module-Adding MCQ Question and settings
General
*Category
*Question name
*Question text
*Default mark
Feedback
~Single / multiple
answers
Shuffle the
choices-Yes/No
Number the
choices
Answers
Choice
Grade
Feedback
Combined
feedback
For correct
responses
For partially correct
responses
For incorrect
responses
Multiple tries
Penalty for each
incorrect response
and Hints
• By default category is system default
( You can create / edit categories in Quiz administration>> Question
bank >>Categories)
• * Required fields
• ~ In multiple answer question at least two choices are required

Course administration >> Turn editing on >> Go to topic where you want to add quiz
and click on Add an activity or resource >> Select quiz in activity chooser >> Click
Add >> Give Quiz name and modify required / desired settings >> Click save and
display >> Click on Edit Quiz >> Select a new question >> Select type of question
(here MCQ) >> Click Add >> Give question name, text, default mark, feedback and
choices (as many as you wish if multiple answers are selected) and other desired
settings >> Click Save Changes
Quiz -Adding a new MCQ Question

Course administration >> Turn editing on >> Question
bank >> Categories>> Add category
Quiz - Categories
1. Select Top in Parent category option to make it parent
category.
1. Give a name and add information about it
1. Click Add category

Course administration >> Turn editing on >> Question
bank >> Import
Quiz – Import Questions
1. Select Aiken format in file format
2. Select category to which questions
to be imported in General section
3. Choose file and click import
Click here to see Aiken format sample document

Quiz – Aiken format
1. Click on the link below to see Aiken format text and prepare your MCQs in that format
2. Use a simple text editor and type your MCQs along with answer options and correct answer
3. Save as TXT file in UTF-8 encoding
4. If you observe in Aiken format the entire question is in one line ( no line brakes)
5. Each answer starts with uppercase letter followed by bracket or period then a space and answer.
6. Then give correct answer as ANSWER: “answer letter”.
The answer letters (A,B,C etc.) and the word "ANSWER" must be capitalized.
Click here to see Aiken format sample document
Sample
What is the correct answer to this question?
A. Is it this one?
B. Maybe this answer?
C. Possibly this one?
D. Must be this one!
ANSWER: D

Moodle Quiz Grades
Once you set up your quiz and maximum
grade as described, go to Course
Administration and click on Grades.

Moodle Quiz Grades
You can see all graded activities/assignments/quiz etc. and various options to view reports in tabs for all
users / for a single user. Click on drop down of Grader report and explore the options.

Moodle Quiz Grades
Here you can set up Gradebook, view and edit grade letters, import and export
grade reports and view reports per user or a overall report.
Click on pen icon next to name to view single view report of that user.
You can analyse grades and comment or override marks in single view option by
clicking a magnifying glass icon.

There is a lot to explore in Quiz module in Moodle LMS. This is just a basic overview, which will help
you in creating a quiz and generate result report automatically within no time.
Happy Moodling!

Quiz activity Moodle 3.2

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