The quiz activity enables users to create quizzes comprising questions of various types, a list of which can be found further down in this article.

The user 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, with the exception of essay questions, and the grade is recorded in the gradebook.  Reports on student activity can be generated.

The user can choose when and if, hints, feedback and correct answers are shown to students.  This offers much greater flexibility and options such as confidence based marking (CBM) can be chosen.  A feature not available on our current e-assessment software is the ability to tailor the feedback and give hints if the selected response is incorrect or partially correct.  The score will be adapted each time an incorrect answer is selected, therefore, the more times a participant attempts to answer the question and their answer is incorrect, their mark will reduce.

Quizzes may be used

• As course exams
• As mini tests for reading assignments or at the end of a topic
• As exam practice using questions from past exams
• To deliver immediate feedback about performance
• For self-assessment

The initial plan is to migrate all current formative assessments from QMP across to Moodle.  An automated process to facilitate this is currently being developed by the Unversity’s Moodle provider.  More information will be made available about this at a later date.

Question types that will be made available are as follows: (Links are to the Moodle support site and give comprehensive descriptions).  Links will open in a new window.

• Calculated question
• Simple calculated
• Calculated Multiple choice
• Drag and drop into text
• Drag and drop markers
• Drag and drop onto image
• Drag and drop matching
• Embedded answers (Cloze)
• Essay
• Matching
• Multiple choice (MCQ)
• Numerical
• OU Multiple response
• Random short answer matching
• Select missing words
• Short answer
• True/false

For further information around Moodle quizzes, the Moodle support site has a good overview.

For further information about quizzes and e-assessment using Moodle, please contact asti@plymouth.ac.uk.