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Moodle 2.4: Quizzes -‐ Activities Revised on 7/10/2013 1

Activities for Moodle 2.4 Quizzes

Activity 1 – Submit Quizzes as a Student In this activity, you will take two simple, standard styled quiz. The term “standard” Please write down anything you observed while completing it. When finished, we will discuss the class’s observations.

Part I Tasks -‐ Experience two standard quizzes

1. Open the Firefox browser and log into Moodle 2 at http://moodle2.umn.edu using your webtrnXX ID and the password written on the whiteboard.

2. On the Tech Training Quizzes - Student site complete the Sample Quiz located in Section 1, The History of Chocolate.

• Try various actions on the quiz and questions as your students might do.

• Notice you do not get a score because the instructor will have to grade the paragraph question (#6) to get a complete quiz score.

3. Open the Randomly Selected Questions Quiz and compare with a neighbor which questions were distributed to each of you. Answer the questions if you like.

Part II Tasks -‐ Experience quizzes with other question review options Complete each of the four, short quizzes. Read the instructions for how and when the question review information will be released for each type of quiz.


1. Complete the Deferred Feedback quiz.

2. Complete the Immediate Feedback quiz.

3. Complete the Adaptive Mode quiz.

4. Complete the Interactive Mode with Multiple Attempts quiz.

End of Activity 1


Activity 2 – Create Questions and a QB Category

In your Tech Training Quizzes– webtrnXX course site create a Multiple Choice, Short Answer, and Essay question in the course site Question Bank. Choose the Default for Quiz category to store the questions.

Optional -‐ To save time you may copy and paste the question Name and Description from the Question Text.txt file in the Moodle Quiz Class Files folder.

Part I Tasks – Create questions

Create a Multiple Choice question

1. Create a Multiple Choice question and save it in the Default for Quizzes category of the Question Bank.

2. Use the following for the question options:

• Category: Default for Quizzes

• Question name: Real Chocolate?

• Question text: This type of chocolate cannot be called "chocolate" in many countr ies.

• One or multiple answers? One answer only

• Choice 1

○ Answer: White Chocolate ○ Grade: 100% ○ Feedback: Yes because of i ts low cocoa sol ids.


• Choice 2 ○ Answer: Milk Chocolate ○ Grade: None

• Choice 3 ○ Answer: Eating Chocolate ○ Grade: None

3. Save Changes.

Create a Short Answer question

Our Short Answer question will have several “correct” answers to account for the various spellings and abbreviations, since spelling does not count.

1. Create a Short Answer question and save it in the Default for Quizzes category of the Question Bank.


• Question name: Hershey’s

• Question text: The headquarters for the Hershey's candy company is located in which U.S. State?

• Case sensitivity: No, case is unimportant

• Choice 1 ○ Answer: Pennsylvania ○ Grade: 100%

• Choice 2 ○ Answer: Penn ○ Grade: 100%

• Choice 3 ○ Answer: PA ○ Grade: 100%

3. Save Changes.


Create an Essay question

1. Create an Essay question and save it in the Default for Quizzes category of the Question Bank.


• Question name: Chocolate Mousse

• Question text: List the ingredients in a tradit ional chocolate mousse recipe.

• Optional task – add the image chocolate_mousse_cake.jpg above the question text.

3. Save Changes.

Three newly created questions in the Default for Quiz Question Bank category.

Continued on next page.


Part II Tasks – Organize your questions with a category Create a question category in the Question Bank for you new quiz questions. Move the questions into this category.

Three questions selected and ready for moving to the Week 2 Question Bank category.

1. The new category will be titled Week 2 and has the category information of Questions for the Week 2 quiz

2. The Week 2 category should be a subcategory of the course Top category.

3. Move the recently created multiple choice, short answer, and essay questions from the Default for Quiz category to the Week 2 category.

End of Activity 2


Activity 3 -‐ Configure a Quiz and add Questions

Part I Tasks – Configure the quiz (container)

1. Add a quiz in Section 2, Types of Chocolate and Production.

2. The name of the quiz will be Week 2 Quiz and has Introduction information of Quiz on material from Week 2.

3. The quiz opens tomorrow (you pick a time) and closes 3 days from today (again, you pick a time.)

4. Students have 1 attempt at the 10 minute timed quiz.

5. Keep all the remaining defaults.

6. Save and Display the new quiz. This moves you to Edit Quiz mode.

Part II Tasks – Add questions

Add all questions from a category

1. Add the three new questions within the Week 2 Question Bank category to the Week 2 Quiz .

Add select questions

2. Add the Candy Manufacturers (T/F) question from the Chocolate Quiz Question Bank category to the Week 2 Quiz .


Add Random questions

3. Add 1 random question from the Chocolate Quiz Question Bank category to the Week 2 Quiz . Note: since we already added the Candy Manufactures (T/F) question from this category, it will never be chosen at random.

Create a new question within the quiz

4. Create a new True/False question directly within the Week 2 quiz. Use the Add a Questions button.

5. Save it in the Week 2 Question Bank category.

6. The name of the question is Black M&Ms and the question text is: There are no black colored M&Ms in a standard bag of M&M candy.

7. The answer is True and the question value is 1 point.

8. Save your changes to the Week 2 quiz.

End of Activity 3


Activity 4 – Modifying the quiz layout

Tasks –

Repagination – Setting the number of questions per page

1. On the Week 2 quiz, set the Questions Per Page to Unlimited, save your changes, and Preview the results.

2. Try other settings of questions per page. Preview the results.

3. Finally, change the setting for Question Per Page to 1 and Save your changes.

Reordering questions

1. Use the Move editing icons to rearrange at least two questions to a new sequence.

2. Use the numeric ordering boxes and reorder all six questions at one time.

3. Move one question from a page with several questions to a blank page.


Deleting questions or extra pages

1. Use the Delete icon and remove 1 question from the quiz.

2. Find the single question you just deleted and add it back to the quiz.

3. Repaginate the quiz to Unlimited questions per page.

Setting the question and quiz scores

1. Change all single answer questions (TF, Short Answer, Numeric) to 1 pt.

2. Change all multi-part questions (MC, Matching) to 2 pts.

3. Change essay questions to 4 pts.

4. Change the quiz total score to match the natural sum of the question scores.

5. Save the Week 2 quiz and Preview it.

End of Activity 4


Activity 5 -‐ Grading essay questions For this activity you will review and grade essay questions one at a time, and many/all at once.

Tasks –

Grade a single essay question response

1. In the Chocolate Quiz grade the essay question #6, Chocolate Buffet, for only Cocao Chanel and Count Chocolate. You will grade them one at a time. (While this method is very inefficient; we are doing it to review the process.)

2. Make sure to save your new scores and comments. Confirm that the new quiz score total has updated for Cocao and Count.


Grade multiple essay question responses

1. Use the Manual Grading function to open all the remaining ungraded essay question #6, Chocolate Buffet, and finishing grading and giving comments to the rest of the class.

• Optional: You may open All Attempts, including Cocao's and the Count's answers and scores, to compare then for consistency to the other class members is you wish.

2. Make sure to save your scores and comments. Confirm that the new quiz score totals have updated for the remainder of the class.

End of Activity 5


Activity 6 -‐ Review attempts, Override scores, Reset attempts, and Modify questions You will review Cookie Sweet's attempts at the Chocolate Quiz and give credit for answers that were marked wrong. Then you will review short answer questions and give credit for misspelled or well-‐intentioned attempts.

Tasks -‐

1. Find Cookie Sweet's attempt at the Chocolate Quiz and give him credit for the Too Much Chocolate question #5. He wrote the word "Fifteen" instead of the number 15. You will be kind hearted and give him the 1 point.

2. Cookie Sweet also found a Japanese YouTube video where the Green M&M personality was a male, not female. He has shown it to you on his iPad. Give him the 2 points for Chocolate Quiz question #4.


• Add this comment to Cookie's updated question #4: "Student has found a Japanese commercial with a boy Green M&M."

3. The class had a Short Answer Quiz with three questions that required the (text) entry of baking terms. You need a quick way to review all the answers and give credit to any you feel merit the points even, though the term was misspelled.

Be sure to save ALL changes

Optional Task -‐

1. Due to Cookie's discovery of the Japanese YouTube video with the male M&M personality, go to the Question Bank, find the M&M (multiple choice) question and modify the text to say "… in American television commercials..."

Be sure to save the change as the Same question.

End of Activity 6


Activity 7 – Configure a quiz for students needing more time or another attempt Disability Services has notified you that a student in your class, Ben Eaton-‐Chocolate, is eligible for accommodations of more time on quizzes or exams. Also, N.Joy Hershey had a good reason for why she did poorly on the quiz, so you will reset it for her to have another attempt.

Tasks -‐

1. Access the Essay Question Quiz and use the User Override function to give Ben another (1) attempt of 20 minutes to do the quiz before tomorrow night at midnight. Remember to first delete the attempt. Also, enter a password of your choice and tell Ben that password.

2. Reset the Chocolate Quiz for N. Joy Hershey and use the User Override function to allow her access for only tomorrow. Do not give her extra time. Also add a password to the quiz that you will give to Joy.


If you need to modify any of your settings after Saving them use the Edit (hammer) function on the User Override page.

End of Activity 7

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