Jing audio script mini-series: Writing quiz questions (multiple choice)

[The following is a the script of a Jing tutorial video available on Saint Martin University's Instructional Design Moodle. It is intended to supplement the video should you have any trouble interpreting the audio file and is in no way intended to replace the actual video tutorials. Click on the link to watch the videos that this resource accompanies.]



Hi this is a video tutorial series about how to add content to your classes on Moodle.

Today we are going to show you part two of how to add a quiz to your class page.

So in the first part of this series we showed you how to set your quiz preferences.

Today we are going to begin a mini-series about how to write questions for your quiz.

The first type of question we are going to learn how to write is one of the easiest, multiple choice.

So first you access Saint Martin's Moodle page which again is at moodle.stmartin.edu/ and log in with your user name and password.

Find the class that you want to work on and select it.

When it pulls up the page, click on the button that says turn editing on in the upper right hand corner of your screen.

Next, select quizzes from the border to the left of your screen.

A heading that says Question bank should be on the right, scroll down to "Create New Question", and chose the type of question you wish to create. Let's try a multiple choice question together, shall we?

Next give the question a name, and you can add a description in the box below it if you like. Then scroll down.

You can chose whether there are one or multiple correct responses to this question, and set the preferences so that the quiz answers will be shuffled each time it is taken.

Lastly you can select the nature of the choices, whether your responses are numbered or noted by letters.

Just below that you will enter one possible response in the blank.

Next we select the grade the student will receive for that response.negative percentages will indicate a deduction or penalty for that response, positive percentages will indicate that the student is to be awarded points for that answer. You can chose the percent for partically correct responses to give the student some credit for effort.

The boxes below the answers are the places to write responses to the student's individual answers. You can also automatically respond to any correct or incorrect responses, but we'll get back to that in a minute.

You may provide as many choices as you like, Moodle will provide a standeard of five boxes, but you can click on the link that says "Blanks for three more choices" as needed.

The bottom of the page has boxes for you to write in the automatic response to any correct, partcially correct, or incorrect response. Remember this will supplement the individual comments you have already added to each question if you chose to do so. The response will appear below every desiganted answer as dictated by their score on the question.

Now click save changes.

Your question will now appear below the "Question Bank" heading.

So that's how you write a multiple choice question for your quiz on Moodle.

Stay tuned for how to write other types of questions to your quiz, adding questions to your quiz, and a practice run-through of your quiz as your students will see it.

Thanks for watching!



[Again that was a script for a Jing tutorial video available on the Instructional Design site on Saint Martin's moodle, feel free to click on the title of this blog, or the link at the beginning of this piece to check out the videos in their entirety. Also stayed tuned for further updates, the mini-series will continue with writing other types of questions, and part 2 of adding quizzes will follow soon, we'll show you how to add questions to your quiz, and have a practice test.]