LMS User Guide Creating Quizzes

LMS User Guide Creating Quizzes

Creating Quizzes in the LMS LMS quizzes are highly versatile but they can initially appear daunting to set up. This guide will assist you in building quizzes that perform in the way that you need them to perform. There are 3 parts to making a quiz: 1. Creating the container for the quiz this sets out how the quiz will work, number of questions per page, feedback required, pass marks and so on. 2. Questions these can be created separately from the quiz in question banks. 3. The final part is allocating the questions to the quiz and deciding if they are allocated at random, whether some or all are mandatory and whether or not they come from different categories. Part 1 - Creating the Quiz. In a course, you start by using the Add an activity option to add a Quiz. You will see a long page with a number of options. Listed below are those options that either need to be changed or options that you might like to change. Name: Give the quiz a clear and sensible name so that you will easily be able to identify it on the reports. Introduction: This is where you give instruction to your learners about the quiz what to expect, what the pass mark is etc. Attempts allowed: Allows you to limit the number of attempts your users can have. Grading Method: Lets you choose between Highest, Average, First and Last Attempt. Highest Grade is the most commonly used setting. Question Order: Here you decide to display the questions in the order that you create them or to have them shuffled randomly. Shuffling the answers helps to protect against cheating. New Page: This will insert page breaks based on your choice Shuffle within Questions: This setting automatically shuffles the a,b,c answers in a multiple choice question. How questions behave: There are many ways that students can interact with questions but the common one is Deferred Feedback. This allows the students to enter an answer to each question and then submit the entire quiz, before anything is graded or before they get any feedback.

Review options: This is where you get an overwhelming choice of tick boxes about the feedback you can give students. The quizzes were designed with University type students in mind. That is why they can be Open or Closed. We don t tend to do that so you need only be concerned with the lists for Immediately after the attempt and Later, while the quiz is open (just in case the student wants to go back in and review what they achieved). The important check box is the Overall Feedback as this will tell them if they have passed or failed. Overall Feedback: this is the important one. In this section you get to say Well done or Try again. You start with the top Grade Boundary and then you write in your congratulatory statement (notice you can change font colours, sizes and add links and pictures).then you set the passing score in the next Grade boundary area. It builds like this: Grade boundary: 100% Feedback : Congratulations you passed with flying colours Grade boundary: 90% Feedback : Well done you have passed the assessment Grade boundary: 80% Feedback : Unfortunately you have not reached the required pass mark. Please try again Grade boundary: 70% Feedback : Unfortunately you have not reached the pass mark. We recommend that you retake the elearning module before trying again. Grade boundary: 50% Feedback : Unfortunately you have not reached the pass mark. Please contact your Learning & Development team to discuss your needs. As you can see from this example you can have lots of boundaries and lots of feedback statements. Restrict Access: This allows you to make access to the quiz conditional. You may choose to use the Activity Completion Condition to lock access to the quiz until the learner has completed the elearning module, for example. Activity Completion: It is likely that you would want to influence other activities based on the result of this quiz (such as giving learner access to their certificate). This means you need to set Completion Tracking to Show activity as complete when conditions are met and then check the option for Student must receive a grade to complete this activity.

When you have worked all the way through those options, you can Save and return to course.part 1 is now complete - you have created the quiz. You now need to create the questions to go into the quiz. Part 2 - Creating Question Banks Having created the Quiz we now need to build the questions. It is best to build these as Question Banks. This will allow you to pull in numbers of random questions from different banks and make your quizzes highly versatile and as cheat proof as possible. When you click and enter a new quiz you will be told that it is empty and so you have only one option: Edit Quiz. You can just jump in and start creating questions but we are going to do it in a more structured way which gives you a more versatile result. In your Settings Block you should be able to see the Question bank option. Expand it to find Categories. Questions are organised into categories. Initially each course has only one category called Default. It is good practice to create more categories to organize your questions. This not only makes it easier to find questions, but makes the use of random questions and matching questions easier. You can create a hierarchy of categories by creating subcategories inside parent categories. So, on the Edit Categories page you will see other categories - available to you from other quizzes - and you can add your own. If you change Parent Category you can make the new set of questions available to other quizzes. Go ahead and give your category of questions a sensible name and a good description. Once you save it you can then choose Questions from your Settings Block and then begin adding in your questions. Start by selecting your new category name from the drop down list at the top of the Question Bank page. Clicking the Create a new question button gets you started. Select a question type and then click Next, where you get to add the detail to your question. (There are a number of question types and the most commonly used ones are briefly described in an Appendix at the end of this document.) General tips for building questions: Question Name: Give it a brief, descriptive name so you know what the question was when/if you need to edit it. General Feedback: There are loads of feedback options available, possibly too many. You do not have to fill them in if you don t want to use them. General Feedback is given to learners

regardless of whether they get the answer right or wrong so it could be used to talk about the subject of the given question. Shuffle Answers: This is usually set when you create the course. You can remove it for individual questions. If you have a multiple choice question that includes an option for All of the above then you need to switch it off. Once you have created all the questions you need, you can then move on to Part 3 and take questions from the Question Bank to the Quiz. Part 3 Adding Questions to the Quiz You have your questions in the bank; now you just need to decide how they appear in the quiz: You can put all your questions in your quiz You can randomly add some of the questions You can combine both of the above so that certain questions always appear and others are randomly added. You can combine questions from different banks so you produce very unique quizzes and remove the possibility of cheating. Whilst in your quiz, select Edit Quiz from the Settings Block The right hand side of the page allows you to select the question bank you want to use. To add a number of random questions, select the appropriate number and press the Add to quiz button. To add individual questions, you can click the << area ot the left of the question to send that question into the quiz.

To move several at once, you can tick the check boxes next to the questions you d like to add and then click the Add to Quizbutton. You can select other question banks from the drop down list and then add in questions from those too. Once in the quiz, questions can be removed by clicking the red cross. This takes them out of the Quiz but not out of the Question Bank. That s it. Your quiz is ready to go! Appendix - Common question types and tips. Multiple Choice The most common type of questionwe use and you can have as many potential answers as you like. You should add feedback against the correct and incorrect answers. Remember to add the correct percentage against the correct answer. You can choose whether you have a single correct answer or multiple correct answers. If you have multiple correct answers remember that you have to share out the percentage marks between them. Tip. Always type in the correct answer in the first option area (or, if you have many correct options, type them all in first) before your incorrect options. This gets them out of the way and then you can add all the incorrect options and the computer shuffles them anyway. True False This is a very simple option. It does what it says on the tin. The only thing to bear in mind is that you need to word the question carefully so as not to confuse the learner. Short Answer This is like Blankety Blank. You need the learner to type in an answer. Keep it short. Don t expect sentences or even phrases. You can say something like What is the capital of France and then award 100% for people who type in Paris. You can me more flexible and say What do function do you use to create an evaluation form in the LMS? and give 100% to anyone typing Questionnaire but give 75% to anyone who types Questionaire.

Numerical These are similar to the Short Answer question types but only accept numbers. They also allow you to have an accepted error. This means you can have a question like How tall, in feet, is the Empire State Building? and set the answer as 1,250 with an accepted error margin of 50ft. Matching Another one that does what its name implies. You simply set up each option with a question and an answer. You can add more answers than questions just to make life harder for learners. Embedded or Cloze These are questions that can contain several of the formats that you have already seen in one overall question. These can be fun but they are quite complex to create. For example here is a simple one: You type in: Match the following cities with the correct state: * San Francisco: {1:MULTICHOICE:=California#OK~Arizona#Wrong} * Tucson: {1:MULTICHOICE:California#Wrong~%100%Arizona#OK} * Los Angeles: {1:MULTICHOICE:=California#OK~Arizona#Wrong} * Phoenix: {1:MULTICHOICE:%0%California#Wrong~=Arizona#OK} The capital of France is {1:SHORTANSWER:%100%Paris#Congratulations! ~%50%Marseille#No, that is the second largest city in France (after Paris).~*#Wrong answer. The capital of France is Paris, of course.}. And you get this: