15. Quiz

There are a number of options when adding a quiz component:

  1. Date quiz open - this is an optional setting. If set users will not be able to take the quiz until this date. If they access the quiz before this date there will be no link through to the questions, just a note letting them know when the quiz opens.

  2. Date quiz closed - this is an optional setting. If set the users will not be able to take the quiz after this date. If they access the quiz after this date there will be no link through to the questions, just a not saying what date the quiz closed on.

  3. Attempts allowed - you can specify here how many times a user can take the quiz. If they are allowed unlimited attempts set this to 0.

  4. Shuffle questions - if set to 'Yes' the questions will be displayed in a random order each time a user attempts the quiz. If set to 'No' they will be displayed in the sort order set when you added the questions to the quiz.

  5. Shuffle answers - if set to 'Yes' the answers will be displayed in a random order each time a user attempts the quiz. If set to 'No' they will be displayed in the sort order set when you added the answers to the question.

  6. Show correct answers - there are three options here:

    1. No - the user will not be shown the correct answers to the quiz.

    2. On completion - once a user has completed the quiz they will be taken to a page displaying the correct answers.

    3. When quiz closed - once the closing date for the quiz is reached users will be given a link to display the correct answers.

  7. Show feedback - if you entered feedback for each question when you set them up there are three options as to when this will be displayed:

    1. No - the user will not be shown any feedback .

    2. On completion - once a user has completed the quiz they will be taken to a page displaying the correct answers and the feedback for each question.

    3. When quiz closed - once the closing date for the quiz is reached users will be given a link to display the correct answers and feedback for each question.

  8. Grading - if the quiz is linked to a Gradebook item, and users are allowed more than one attempt at the quiz, then you can specify which score will be transferred to the gradebook:

    1. Highest score - the highest score from all attempts will be saved.

    2. Average score - the average of the scores from all attempts will be saved.

    3. First attempt - only the users first attempt will be saved.

    4. Last attempt - only the users most recent attempt will be saved.

  9. Minutes allowed - if you want a time limit on the quiz you can set it here in minutes. The user will be notified on the quiz start page how much time they have. They will also see a timer counting down in their browser window title bar and will see a warning popup box when they have 10 minutes left.

    If they go over time they can still submit the quiz, but the time taken is recorded for the admin to see on the quiz start page.

15.1. Adding questions to a quiz

There are several steps to adding a questions to a quiz:

  1. Firstly you need to add categories under which to store your questions. This then enables you to create banks of questions that can be added to different quizzes in different spaces. When you add a category it is available to you and also to the other administrators in the current space. If you move to a different space you can see all of the categories added by you in any space.

  2. Once you have categories added, select the category that you want to add a question to and then click on the 'Create a new item in this category link'.

  3. Once you have added your questions you need to select them in the right hand box and click on 'Add'. This will add it to the left hand box and it is now available in the current quiz.

  4. In the 'Items Currently Included' box you can specify the sort order of the questions (this is ignored if you select to 'Shuffle Questions' in the quiz component setup). You can also specify the score for each question. If you do not specify a score here, or leave it set to 0, then the score specified for each response during the question setup will be used.

  5. Once you have all the question you want appearing in the left hand box click on the 'Finished' link.

15.2. Setting up questions

At present you can set up three types of question:

  • True/False, eg.

    For this type of question simply add the question with two responses of true and false and flag one of the responses as correct.

  • Multichoice, eg.

    For this type of question add the question with up to 6 responses and flag just one of the responses as correct.

  • Multianswer, eg.

    For this type of question select 'Multiple Reponse' under settings. Then add up to 6 responses and flag as many of these as correct as you want.

When adding/modifying questions you have the following settings:

  1. Name - the name field allows you to enter a simple name for the question that will enable you to easily identify it when viewed in a list of questions.

  2. Category - this is the category to which this question will be assigned. This enables you to file questions under categories of your choosing for easy retrieval. You can file a question under more than one category.

  3. Multiple Response - if you select multiple response they you can select more than one correct response for a given question. All of the correct responses need to be selected by the user in order for the answer to be correct.

  4. Question - enter the question in this box. The question can contain text and graphics. If you are wanting to include formatting and graphics in the question then click the EasyEdit button to show the editor toolbar.

  5. Response - for each question you can enter up to six possible responses. Each response can also contain text and graphics.

  6. Correct - tick this box for those responses that are correct for the given question.

  7. Score - You can specify a score for both correct and incorrect answers. The score given here will be overridden by any score specified when you add the question to a particular quiz. To have this score used then keep the score on the 'Add Item' page set to 0.

  8. Feedback - any text entered here will be displayed to the user on completion if 'Show feedback' is set to 'On completion' or 'When quiz closed.

  9. Use this feedback for all correct/incorrect answers - to save having to enter the same feedback for each correct or incorrect answer you can enter it just in one and select this option.

15.3. Results

The results for each user can be viewed on the quiz start page by space admins. The score and the time taken is displayed for each attempt. The space admin can remove attempt data by selecting the attempts and clicking on 'Delete selected attempts'.

The space admin can also access more detailed attempt data by following the 'View full attempt data' link. On this page is displayed the answer selected for each question, by each user. There is also an option to view the attempts by question, and this page will also show how many users answered the question correctly.