One of Moodle’s many features is the quiz activity, which allows a teacher to assess a student’s knowledge in a variety of ways. However, before developing a quiz, a teacher needs to have questions developed and ready to be incorporated into the quiz.
The purpose of this post is to explain how to develop questions that are available to be used in a quiz.
Make a Category
When making questions it is important to be organized and this involves making categories in which to put your questions. To do this you need to click on course administrator|questions bank|Categories. After doing this you will see something similar to the image below.
You want to click add category and type a name for your category. In the picture below we named the category “example”. When you are finished click “add category and you will see the following.
Finding the Question Bank
Now that we have a question category we need to go to the question bank. To do so click on course administrator|question bank. You should see something similar to the following.
Select the “example” category you made and then “click create new question.” You should see the following.
As you can see, there are many different forms of questions available. The type of questions you should ask depends on many factors. For now, we will make a true or false example question. Once you select the option for T/F question you will see the following.
The question name is for identifying the question in the bank and not on the quiz. Therefore, avoid calling your questions “question 1, 2,3 etc.” because if you have multiply quizzes you will not know which question one to take from your bank. You need to develop some sort of cataloging system for your questions such as the following
1 Q1 TF 2016
This means the following
- 1 means this is number 1
- Q1 means this is quiz 1
- TF means the question is true false
- 2016 is the year the question was developed
How you do this is your own decision and this is just an example.
The other boxes on this page are self-explanatory. General feedback is what the student receives whether they are right or wrong. The other feedback is given depending on the response. After making a question selecting if it is true or false you will see the following.
In a future post, we will learn how to take questions from the question bank and incorporate them into an actually quiz.