This is an overview of the process of quiz creation in Moodle ISU. The 3 main steps of quiz creation are outlined within this handout. There are 3 steps involved in the creation of a quiz. This overview briefly covers each of the 3 steps, along with post-creation.
The Question bank provides a convenient place to store and organize all of your questions for the course. This document provides instructions on how to add questions to the bank, as well as organize them into categories.
There are several types of questions that you can add to a Quiz. This guide will provide brief descriptions of each question type. Click on the Additional Information link to learn how to create each type of question.
Importing questions allows instructors to create questions outside of Moodle ISU and quickly upload them to their question bank. This feature saves the instructor time by cutting out the need to recreate questions within Moodle.
GIFT format allows you to use a text editor to write multiple-choice, true-false, short answer, matching, missing word, and numerical questions in a simple format that can be imported into Moodle ISU. The GIFT format is also an export file format available in the question bank.
If your textbook came with access to ExamView, this guide will help you import the questions into your Moodle ISU question bank. If you have received access to TestGen or EZTest, contact the ITRC - (208) 282-5880 or email itrc@isu.edu so that they can look at the question bank and help you find the best process for importing those questions.
The Safe Exam Browser (SEB) is a proctoring tool used by faculty in the ISU Computer Classrooms. It regulates the access to any utilities like system functions, other websites and applications, and prevents unauthorized resources being used during an exam.
This feature will control the initial access to a Moodle Quiz with a set start date, which will cause students to enter randomly with a short delay. This feature improves the reliability and efficiency of the quiz tool during an examination window.
Questions may be exported from the Moodle Question Bank in the following formats: Aiken, GIFT, Moodle, XHTML. This will allow the instructor to store or import questions into another Moodle Course or learning management system.
The quiz activity allows you to create tests and adaptive learning assessments. Moodle ISU can automatically grade many of the question types and place the overall score in the Gradebook.
User and Group overrides allow you to create a unique criteria for a specific user or group of users for a specific quiz activity.
Before adding questions to your quiz, you should have already created questions in your Question bank, and have created a Quiz activity in your course.
As soon as a student begins a quiz the attempt can be seen on the Results page. After grading, either automatic or manual, the results and an overview of performance can be viewed.
Learn how instructors can download student data from a quiz for research or archive purposes.
Allow participants in Moodle ISU to create quiz questions. These questions can then be repurposed for self-checks, pop quizzes, chapter quizzes, and/or exams.
Participants with the Quiz Question Creator role can create quiz questions for specific quizzes.