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Multiple Choice Question


  1. Category: Select the category that the quiz questions are to be stored in.
  2. Question name: Enter the description or question number
  3. Question Text box: Enter the question - this is what the student will see.
  4. Default mark: This is a required field. Accept the default of '1' or change the value.  You can also change the value when editing the quiz.
  5. General Feedback: You can use the general feedback to give students some background as to the knowledge the question was testing. Or to give them a link to more information they can use if they did not understand the questions. General feedback is shown to all students if you have enabled it at the "Review.." check-boxes.

Multiple Choice Questions Can Have a Single or Multiple Answers

  • Single answer - there is only one 'best' answer. The grade would be set at +100%.
  • Multiple answer - allows one or more answers to be chosen. The grade for questions can be assigned a positive or negative value. If a student chooses ALL the answers this could result in a negative grade.

Example: Answer A) grade at +100%, B) grade at -50%, C) grade at -50%, D) grade at -50%. Students selecting ALL the answers will have a negative grade of -50%. The quiz will assign a score of '0' for a negative result.

Questions exceeding 100% can also be created - be careful! Example: A) grade +100%, B) grade +50% (it is partially correct), etc. Because students can choose more than one answer, if they choose A & B their score would exceed +100% (ie: +150%).

  1. One or multiple answers? - set this option keeping in mind the information above.
  2. Shuffle the choices?: If this is enabled answers change each time the quiz is opened. Caution: If one of the answers is, 'all of the above' and you currently have it in the 'D' position, shuffling will place it in another position. Oops!
  3. Number the choices? - Select your preference from the drop down menu.
  4. Entering the choices:
    1. Answer: Enter one of the choices.
    2. Grade: This is an incorrect answer, therefore 'none'. If this was the correct answer, and you were only allowing 'one answer only', then the setting would be 100%.
    3. Feedback: What a student sees if they choose this answer. This is an optional field however there is value in completing it as students can see what the correct answer is and compare it to theirs.  May save a lot of emails.... smile
  5. Need more choices?  Click the "Blanks for 3 more choices"

Combined Feedback Section (Optional)

This section is in three parts:

  • For any correct response
  • For any partially correct response
  • For any incorrect response

Enter feedback in the text boxes.

  1. Settings for multiple tries:  Only applicable if your are using 'Interactive with multiple tries' or 'Adaptive mode'This controls the penalty factor for incorrect responses.
  2. Hints - Optional: can be added to the questions when an incorrect response is entered.
  3. Save changes

Continue entering questions.


True/False Questions

Students enter either a true or false response to the question. 

  1. Correct Answer:  choose True or False from the drop down menu.
    The following two text boxes permit feedback if:
    1. the student chose 'True', and 
    2. the student chose 'False'.

      If feedback is enabled, the appropriate feedback message is shown to the student after the quiz is completed. If students have chosen 'True' (the incorrect answer) that feedback is shown.
  2. Save changes
    Below is a view of the completed question with feedback provided.


Short Answer Questions

  1. Setting up Short Answer Questions (words or phrases).



  2. Variation on answers and grades. 



  3. Partial grades can be assigned for answers that are not 100% accurate or complete.



  4. Sample of student return for a partially correct answer (above question) with the Case sensitivity set to:  'Yes, case must match', and a grade of 50% assigned to this variation.


Matching Questions

  1. Question Text: Enter question/instructions.
    • There is one correct answer for each question. However, additional incorrect answers can be added resulting in more answers than questions. The example below requires 4 correct matches from 6 possible choices.
    • Students select an answer from a drop down menu to match with each sub-question.



  2. Shuffle: For matching questions only, keep the setting at "NO" for shuffle.
    • Each sub-question is equally weighted to contribute towards the grade for the total question. The value of this question could also be set for 4 giving 1 mark for each correct match.

Essay Questions

Students write their answer in an essay format.  The question is graded manually and individual comments can be included. 

  1. Response format:  
    • HTML editor: the editing tool bar will be visible to format their answer.
    • HTML editor with file picker:  as above but also gives access to their computer files (if you are expecting them to attach a file)
    • Plain text: the HTML editor will not appear
    • Plain text monospaced font:  as above
  2. Input box size: set according to the length of response expected.
  3. Allow attachments:  No, 1, 2, 3 or unlimited
  4. Information for graders:  This is optional, however it is a way to improve consistency while marking.

For hints on ways to mark essay questions, please see the page "Marking Essay Questions".


Description

  • The 'Description' is not really a question; rather, it allows text (i.e.: instructions) to be placed in the quiz.  For example:  "The following 10 short answer questions are case sensitive and spelling counts!  Key your answer(s) carefully."
  • When using 'Description' to separate sections of the quiz or for specific instructions, do not use the 'Shuffle' option as the Description will be randomly placed.  This will cause confusion for students.

Other Question Types

Other type of questions include:

  • All or Nothing Multiple Choice
  • Calculated
  • Calculated Multiple Choice
  • Calculated Simple
  • Drag and Drop into Text
  • Drag and Drop Markers
  • Drag and Drop onto Image
  • Numerical
  • OU Multiple Response
  • Embedded (Cloze)
  • Random Short-Answer
  • Select Missing Words

Once the question type is selected, the description of the type displays in the right pane.


All-Or-Nothing Multiple Choice

Useful if students must not 'miss' any piece of critical information.

Note:  Students must get ALL the correct answers in order to receive the marks.  Partially correct responses are given 0 marks.



Numerical Questions

  • From the student perspective, a numerical question looks just like a short-answer question. The difference is that numerical answers are allowed to have an accepted error.
    • This allows a continuous range of answers to be set (i.e. If the answer is 30 with an accepted error of 5, then any number between 25 and 35 will be accepted as correct).
  • Numerical questions can also have case-insensitive, non-numerical answers. This is useful whenever the answer for a numerical question is something like N/A, +inf, -inf, NaN etc.
  • The logic in a numerical question is to allow the students to answer in other valid number-unit combination

Unit Handling

Unit handling - the drop down menu offers three options:

  • Units are optional.  If a unit is entered, it is used to convert the response to Unit 1 before grading
  • Units are not used at all.  Only the numerical value is graded
  • The unit must be given and will be graded.  Choosing this option allows you to set the: Unit penalty, how students will input the unit (multichoice, drop down menu or text input), and where the unit value should placed - either the right or the left.

Unit 1:  enter the unit (i.e. mL)
Unit 2:  enter the unit (i.e. L) (add the multiplier)


Embedded answers (Cloze)

  • There is currently no graphical interface to create these questions - you need to specify the question format using the text box or by importing them from external files.
  • Questions consist of a passage of text (in Moodle format) that has various answers embedded within it, including multiple choice, short answers and numerical answers.

Here is an example of the input text used to specify such a question (notice the coding):

The student view is:
"This question consists of some text with an answer embedded right here and right after that you will have to deal with this short answer (square field) and finally we have a floating point number (square field)."


Calculated Questions

  • Calculated questions offer a way to create individual numerical questions by the use of wildcards that are substituted with individual values when the quiz is taken.
  • The main purpose of the calculated question is to create multiple versions of a question with different numerical values. This means you must have at least one wildcard in one of the answers.
  • For detailed information on calculated question types, wildcards and datasets that relate to this question type:  http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Calculated_question_type
  • If you don't need a random element, use the Numerical Question type instead (above).

Drag and Drop in to Text

  • Missing words in the question text are filled in using "drag and drop".
  • Question text:  In the question, used double square brackets with a number in place of the word you wish students to fill in (i.e.  [[1]] ).
  • Choice Section: Add the missing words or phrases in the correctly number boxes.
  • Group:  The number in 'group' groups the answers.  If you have one answer in group 5 and two answers in group three, the following will be displayed:



    • Choices that are marked 'unlimited' may be used in multiple locations.

Drag and Drop Markers

  • An image is uploaded into the question.
  • Markers are defined and the number can be set or infinite.
  • In the screenshot below, Marker 1 is a defined area 'question' and Marker 2 is a defined area 'feedback'.
  • How to do this (recommended: create them one at a time):
    • Drop zone 3..the area shape chosen is Rectangle. 
    • I have chosen 'answer choices' from the drop down menu.
    • NOW....at the top of the image is a small black square (in green highlighting below).
    • Clicking on the black square shows a red circle in the centre of it.  Drag the small square (because I have chosen Rectangle) over the part of the image that it is to match.  Moodle will automatically add the coordinates.



  • Drop Zones:



  • Students drag the text anywhere into the area defined by the coordinates to get it correct.  NOTE:  the circle at the top left corner of the answer must be within the coordinates specified or it will be marked wrong.  Including this information in the question text would be helpful for you and the students.


Drag and Drop on image

  • Images or text labels are dragged and dropped into zones on a background image (i.e. Students must create a map from the images or label a diagram).
  • The setup is similar to Drag and Drop markers. 
  • Note:  If you are using draggable images, being familiar with image editing and cropping software/applications is essential.

OU Multiple Response

  • A multiple-choice, multiple-response question type with particular scoring rules.  Can be helpful when the question has more than one answer.
  • If the default value of the question is left at 1, the number of correct responses will generate a fraction of one mark.  You do not have to set a value of, for example, at 3.33% for each of three correct choices - the type of question does it for you.


Select Missing Words

  • Similar to short answer questions, only the student selects their answers from a drop down menu.
  • "Matching Question" type has the same functionality.