How to Set up a Quiz Activity on Moodle

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Last updated: Oct 15, 2020
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This guide details the steps of how to set up a Quiz activity on Moodle at the end of which you will be able to start adding your questions.

For a video overview of the basic options on how to set up a quiz please view this video: HERE

Step 1

Click HERE or type “UNIC moodle” on your browser in order to log in. If you have difficulties logging in please follow this guide : How to Login to Faculty Moodle

Step 2

Once you have logged in, select the course you would like to set up a quiz on and then click on the right side of the screen the button “Turn editing on”.

Step 3

By clicking on that button you can now edit any activities/resources already existing in the course to set up a Quiz click on “Add an activity or resource” as pointed out by an arrow in the above image.

You can turn editing off on the by clicking on the upper right side of the screen the button :

Step 4

On this dialog box which will appear click on the “Quiz” activity as shown above.

Step 5

Once step 4 is complete you will be directed to this page in which you can customize your Quiz to fill your needs and when you are done click on “Save and return to course” or “Save and display” to save.

Note that if you click on “Cancel” it will nullify the process and you will lose all the progress made.

Below you will find instructions for each of the settings available:

Quiz Settings

Name: Enter a name for the activity. This name will be displayed on the course page.

Description: You may use this space to provide your students with additional instructions for the quiz, e.g. required readings before attempting the quiz, the quiz structure, etc.

Display description on course page: By enabling this checkbox the text entered in the Description will also be displayed on the course page under the Name.

Open the quiz: Enabling this will allow you to set a date & time after which students can start the quiz.

Close the quiz: Enabling this will allow you to set a date & time after which students cannot start the quiz.

Time limit: Enable this to set a time limit for the quiz.

Once the student starts the quiz the timer will automatically commence. Students cannot pause the timer for any reason!

When time expires: This setting controls what happens with the students answers in the case that they do not finish before the time limit or the quiz close date.

RECOMMENDED: Open attempts are submitted automatically. This is the default setting. It is the most lenient option. Anything the student has answered will be submitted automatically when the quiz time ends

Attempts allowed: Indicate the number of times each student can complete the quiz. By default a student can complete a quiz Unlimited times.

RECOMMENDED: Quizzes that count towards continuous assessment should only allow one (1) attempt. Quizzes for self-assessment or review, the number of attempts is up to the lecturers discretion.

Grading method: If multiple attempts are allowed you can set how the quiz will be graded: Highest, Average, First attempt, Last Attempt

New page: This sets how many questions will appear per page. By default there every question appears on a new page i.e. 1 question is visible to each students at a time.

If you want all the questions to be visible to the students, select from the dropdown Never, all questions on one page.

Navigation method: (click Show more…) Sets how the students will navigate through the quiz:

  • Free: Default. Students can answer the questions in any order. They are able to skip ahead an revisit past pages in the quiz, even after answering them.

  • Sequential: If enabled, students must progress through the quiz in order. They are unable to jump ahead or return to previous pages.

You can use 1 question per page with Sequential navigation for a stricter testing environment. This ensures that students answer one question at a time. They will be unable to return to previous questions regardless of if they have answered them or not.v

Shuffle within questions: Shuffle options within questions such as Multiple Choice or Matching questions to reduce the likeliness that students will see the “same” quiz.

How questions behave:

  • Deferred feedback: Default. Students will answer all questions and submit them altogether before the possibility of receiving any feedback from the activity.

  • Immediate feedback: Students can submit each question as they go along and get immediate feedback from the activity.

  • Certainty-based marking (CBM): Available with either of the above behaviours, with CBM the student does not only answer the question, but they also indicate how sure they are they got the question right. The grading is adjusted by the choice of certainty, so that students have to reflect honestly on their own level of knowledge in order to get the best mark.

RECOMMENDED: Deferred feedback is acceptable for most lecturers, but it is best to know what other ways your quiz can interact with students.

Please do not be intimidated by all the check boxes. It is relatively easy to make sense of them all.

These options control what information students can see when they review a quiz. There are four (4) states to each quiz:

  1. During the attempt: this state is only active if you have enabled Immediate feedback or Interactive else it will be disabled by default.

  2. Immediately after the attempt: any settings enabled here apply for 2 minutes after a student submits the quiz, i.e. clicks Submit all and finish.

  3. Later, while the quiz is still open: these settings apply until the after the student submits the quiz, until the quiz closing date. If no closing date is set then this remains the active state.

  4. After the quiz is closed: these settings apply after the close date has passed. If the quiz has no close date then this state is never reached.

  • The attempt: If enabled, it allows the student to review the attempt.

  • Whether correct: Indicates for each question if it was correct, incorrect or partially correct (where applicable).

  • Marks: Allows the student to view the overall grade for the quiz.

  • Specific feedback: Displays feedback for each question dependent on whether it was correct or incorrect.

  • General feedback: Displays feedback for each question regardless of if it was correct or incorrect.

  • Right answer: Displays the correct answer for each question.

  • Overall feedback: Feedback given at the end of the quiz dependent on the students total mark.

Add Restriction: Various restrictions can be added to the activity to determine if students can view this activity.

Completion tracking: This allows you to set how you want the activity to be considered as complete.

RECOMMENDED: Change this option in the dropdown to Show activity as complete when conditions are met. Then select the option Student must receive a grade to complete activity.

 

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