Adding Short Answer Questions to a Moodle Quiz

Adding a short answer question to your Moodle quiz is much the same as a description question.

1) As with writing any other question for the quiz the first step is to give your question a title.

2)In the box that reads Question text write in your question for your short answer question

3) A short answer question provides spaces for you to provide possible answers

**However it is probably most beneficial for the teacher to review these to insure students receive the appropriate amount of credit for their responses in case they provide a correct response that was not entered in an answer blank. **

4) You may add 3 more answers (or more) if you should so need them.

5) Save your changes, you should now be able to add this question to your quiz.

Adding a Description Question or Essay to a Moodle Quiz

Adding a description or essay question to a moodle quiz is perhaps the easiest to add of any type of questions.

1) As with writing any other question for the quiz the first step is to give your question a title.

2) In the box that reads Question text write in your question for your description question

3) Save your changes, and you should now be able to add your question to your quiz

**Bear in mind, however, that these questions cannot be graded electronically and must be graded at the discretion of the teacher.**

Adding a True/False Question to a Moodle Quiz

As with writing any other question for the quiz the first step is to give your question a title.

1) In the box that reads Question text write in your question for your True/False question

2) Use the drop-down menu to select whether the proper answer should be true or false.

3) Also provided you will find boxes in which you can write feedback your student will see based upon whether they answer true or false.

4) Save your changes, and you should now be able to add your true/false question to your quiz.

Adding a Matching Question to a Moodle quiz

1) As with writing any other question for the quiz the first step is to give your question a title.

2) In the box that reads Question text write in the directions for your set of matching questions

3) Scroll down and in the spaces provided write in matching sets in the questions and answers blanks.

**You can also add more matching sets by clicking on the button that says “3 More Sets of Blanks” **

4) Save your changes, and you should now be able to add your matching questions to your quiz.

Adding a Calculation Question to a Moodle Quiz

1) As with writing any other question for the quiz the first step is to give your question a title.

2) Next write your question in the next box

3) Set the value of the question (the number of points a student can receive if they answer correctly)

3) Below this you will see a box labeled penalty factor; this will determine how many points or partial points a student can receive for an incorrect or partially incorrect answer.

4) Type the correct answer

5) Next set a tolerance level (how close must a student answer come to the correct one to receive full points.)

6) You can add Feedback if you wish, or you may add another possible answer.

7) Lastly you can add the unit the answer will be using in the box provided.

8) Save this question and you should now be able to add it to your quiz.

Basic Steps-Linking a Document to Moodle

Linking a document, such as your class sylabus to Moodle is relatively painless process that can be done in a few simple steps.

1.Turn on Editing on your class page

2. Use the drop-down menu "Add a Resource" to select the "Link to a File or Website" option

3. Create a Title for your document

4. Scroll down to the bottom of your page and click upload a file

5. Select the folder in Moodle where you wish to store the file

6. Browse and select the file you wish to upload from your computer

7. Click Upload this file

After a few moments, that file should appear within Moodle

8. Now, select the option that says "Choose" under the "actions" column on the right side of your screen

9. Click "save and return to course"

The Document has now been uploaded to Moodle



****IMPORTANT NOTE****
It is important to remember that when you load a document to Moodle, Moodle retains a frozen copy of the document, much like an email attachment. If you make changes to the document, for example your sylabus, you will need to reload it to Moodle if you want it to reflect those changes.

Basic Steps-Adding a Quiz to Moodle

The First step to creating a quiz on Moodle comes before questions are even written; setting your quiz preferences.

1. Turn on the editing preferences on your class page

2. Then select "Quiz" from the drop-down menu "Add an Activity"

3. The first thing you should do is Add a name to your quiz in the first blank provided
(you can add a brief description of the quiz in the box below it if you like)


Moodle provides you with lots of choices to format your quiz, you can...

• Use the sets of date and time to create a start-time and deadline for students to take your quiz. If you don't wish to do this, simply check the disable box.

• You can set a time limit for the quiz, or specify how long a student must wait to retake your quiz.

• Specify how many questions will appear on a page at one time

• Shuffle the questions or shuffle the possible answers

• Allow students to make more than one attempt

• Specify how the Moodle will grade the students' quiz attempt(s)

• Apply penalties or deduct points for an incorrect response

• Select the number of decimal points that will appear in a student' end grade

And finally, perhaps most significantly...

Allows you to provide instant feedback to your students depending upon their grade on the quiz you have created.