The quiz activity is a great resource to use to make your Moodle course feel like a real classroom. Quiz is a generic name for any quiz, test, or exam given in Moodle. The quiz activity enables an instructor to create quizzes composing questions of various types, including but not limited to; multiple choice, matching, short-answer and numerical. The instructor can allow the quiz to be attempted multiple times, with the questions shuffled or randomly selected from the question bank. A time limit may be set. Each attempt is marked automatically, except for essay questions, and the grade is recorded in the Gradebook.
The following are setting options available when creating a Quiz Activity.
General
Name
When creating a quiz, you will have to name it. This will appear to the students in your course.
Description
This allows you to describe the quiz you are creating for your students. You can say what the quiz will be about and what chapters it is covering.
Display description on course page
By selecting this box, you can make the description visible on the main course page. If you choose not to select this box, then the description won't be visible until they select to open the Quiz.
Timing
Open the quiz
You can specify times when the quiz is accessible for people to make attempts. Before the opening time the quiz will be unavailable to students. They will be able to view the quiz introduction but will not be able to view the questions. Quizzes with start times in the future display both the open and close date for students.
Close the quiz
After the closing time, the students will not be able to start new attempts. Answers that the student submits after the quiz closing date will be saved but they will not be marked. Even after the quiz has closed students will still be able to see the quiz description and review their attempts. What exactly they will see depends on the settings you choose for review options (see below).
Time Limit
By default, quizzes do not have a time limit, which allows students as much time as they need to complete the quiz. If you do specify a time limit, several things are done to try and ensure that quizzes are completed within that time:
A countdown timer is shown in the quiz navigator block
When the timer has run out the quiz is submitted automatically with whatever answers have been filled in so far
If a student manages to cheat and goes over the allotted time, no marks are awarded for any answers entered after the time ran out
When time expires
There are three options as to what will happen when the time limit is up. Choose the one you need from the dropdown menu:
Open attempts are submitted automatically (This is the default)
There is a grace period when open attempts can be submitted, but no more questions answered
Attempts must be submitted before time expires, or they are not counted
If you select "There is a grace period...'" then you can check the box to enable the "Submission grace period" and specify a period during which students may still submit the quiz after the time is up.
Grade
Grade Category
If you have categories in your Gradebook select the one you wish the quiz to be in.
Review Options
This section controls what information students will be shown when they review their past attempts at the quiz, and during the attempt in "Adaptive" mode. The various pieces of information that can be controlled are:
- The attempt: Will show how the student responded to each question.
- Whether correct: Displays whether the student's response to each question is correct or incorrect.
- Marks: Reveals the marks awarded to the student and the grade for the quiz.
- Specific feedback: Will show the feedback for the response to the answer as set when adding the question to the quiz. Each response to a question can have feedback for both correct and incorrect answers.
- General feedback: Displays the general feedback for the whole question as set when adding the question to the quiz. You can use the general feedback to give students some background to what knowledge the question was testing.
- Right answer: Reveals the correct answer to each question, whether the student answered correctly or not.
- Overall feedback: Displays feedback for the entire quiz as set in the quiz settings.
- During the attempt : This option is only available when 'How questions behave' has been set to 'Immediate feedback', 'Immediate feedback with CBM' and 'Interactive with multiple tries'. If set to one of these options then a 'Check' button will appear below the answer, when clicked the student will submit their response and then receive immediate feedback.
- Immediately after the attempt: This means students will be able to see the answers within 2 minutes of clicking 'Submit all and finish' when they are done with the quiz.
- Later, while the quiz is still open: This means students will be able to see the answers after 2 minutes, but before the close date (if the quiz does not have a close date, this phase never ends).
- After the quiz is closed: This means students will be able to see the answers after the quiz is closed completely (you never get here for quizzes without a close date).
Note: If you do not want your students to see the answers to the quiz before it closes you need to uncheck the "Right answer" category under the middle columns. You can select "Right Answer" in the last column for the students to receive the right answers after the quiz is closed for everyone.
