Moodle-Learning-Management-System/C2/Question-bank-in-Moodle/English-timed
Time | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Question bank in Moodle. |
00:06 | In this tutorial, we will learn about: Question bank in Moodle |
00:12 | Categories of questions and How to add questions to the question bank. |
00:19 | This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04 |
00:26 | Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30 |
00:34 | Moodle 3.3 And Firefox web browser
You may use any web browser of your choice. |
00:44 | However, Internet Explorer should be avoided, as it causes some display inconsistencies. |
00:52 | This tutorial assumes that your site administrator has registered you as a teacher
And assigned at least one course to you. |
01:03 | It also assumes that You have uploaded some course material for your course. |
01:09 | If not, please refer to the relevant Moodle tutorials on this website. |
01:16 | Switch to the browser and login to your Moodle site as a teacher. |
01:24 | I have provided a text file with all the text that is used in this tutorial, in the Code files link.
Please download the file named “Mytextfile.txt” and open it on your machine. |
01:40 | Click on the Calculus course in the left navigation menu. |
01:45 | We will begin by learning about Question banks. |
01:49 | A Question bank is a collection of questions, mostly organized by topics |
01:55 | Questions in the Question bank can be reused in multiple quizzes. |
02:01 | This helps to create different quizzes for each academic year or for different batches. |
02:09 | Switch back to the browser. |
02:11 | Click on the gear icon at the top right and then click on the More… link at the end. |
02:18 | We are brought to the Course Administration page. |
02:22 | Scroll down and locate the section named Question bank. |
02:27 | Click on the Categories link in this section. |
02:30 | Look at the Add category section. |
02:34 | Click on the Parent category dropdown. |
02:37 | Here Top is the top level category for this course. |
02:42 | Select Default for Calculus, if it is not already selected by default. |
02:49 | In the Name field, type Basic Calculus. |
02:54 | Then click on Add Category button at the bottom of the page.
Likewise, we can add more categories. |
03:04 | Create a hierarchy of categories for the Calculus course, like I have done here. |
03:11 | Go to the questions creation page by clicking on the Questions tab. |
03:17 | Click on Create a new question button at the bottom. |
03:22 | A pop-up window opens. |
03:25 | Select the type of question that you wish to add. |
03:29 | Detailed description about the question type is seen on the right side. |
03:35 | I will select Multiple choice. |
03:39 | Click on Add button at the bottom of the pop-up. |
03:43 | Now, select the category for which you want to add the question.
I will choose Evolutes. |
03:51 | In the Question name field, type MCQ with single correct answer. |
03:57 | Type the following question in the Question text area.
You can copy-paste the text from the Mytextfile.txt file. |
04:07 | The Default Mark is set to 1 and I will let it be as 1. |
04:12 | Next option is General feedback. The text here is shown to the student after he/she has submitted the quiz. |
04:23 | This can be used to show the detailed solution of the question, also.
Type or copy-paste the text as I have done here. |
04:34 | Now, click on the One or multiple answers dropdown. |
04:39 | Here we see 2 options- Multiple answers allowed
One answer only |
04:46 | I’ll show you how both options work. |
04:49 | Let me first choose One answer only. |
04:53 | The Shuffle the choices checkbox is checked, by default.
This ensures that the answer choices within the question, are shuffled for each quiz attempt. |
05:06 | Scroll down to see the Answers section. |
05:10 | Notice that every option here is associated with a grade and feedback. |
05:17 | Type Choice 1 as shown here. |
05:20 | Now for this question, Choice 1 is the correct answer. |
05:25 | Therefore I will select 100% in the Grade. |
05:30 | In the Grade dropdown, we can also allot partial marks or negative marks to every choice. |
05:38 | You can explore these later when you are more proficient with Moodle. |
05:43 | Feedback for students who choose this answer, can be written in the Feedback text area.
I will type “Correct”. |
05:53 | Fill the rest of the choices and grades, as I have done here. |
06:01 | Now scroll down and click on Multiple Tries section to expand it. |
06:08 | Notice here - the Penalty for each incorrect try field is set by default, to 33.33% |
06:18 | This means a student will be penalised for every wrong answer. |
06:24 | You can leave it as it is or change it to any of the other percentage options shown here. |
06:31 | I will select 0%, as I don’t wish to penalise my students for wrong answers. |
06:39 | Then scroll down and click on Save changes button at the bottom of the page. |
06:46 | We can see that our question has been added to the Question Bank. |
06:51 | Notice that there are 4 icons next to the question title of the question. |
06:57 | These are to edit, duplicate, preview and delete the question. |
07:06 | Click on Preview icon to see how the question will appear in the quiz. |
07:13 | The selected question and its options opens in a pop-up window. |
07:19 | Click on Fill in correct responses button.
This helps you to verify the questions, the choices and the correct answer. |
07:29 | Click on Submit and finish button. |
07:32 | This will show the feedback that the student will see, after answering the question. |
07:38 | Whenever you add a new question, always preview it to cross check. |
07:44 | Click on Close preview button to close this pop-up window. |
07:49 | Let us now create an MCQ which has more than one correct answer. |
07:54 | Following the previous steps, I have created another MCQ.
Please do so likewise. |
08:01 | In One or multiple answers dropdown, this time I will select Multiple answers allowed. |
08:10 | Enter the choices 1 and 2 and their respective grades as shown.
Here I have selected 50% grade for both. |
08:20 | A student who marks only 1 correct answer gets 0.5 marks. |
08:26 | And the student who marks both correct answers gets 1 mark. |
08:32 | Enter the choices 3 and 4 and their respective grades as shown. |
08:38 | And I will keep Penalty for each incorrect try field as 0%. |
08:44 | Then scroll down and click on Save changes button. |
08:49 | Next, let’s add a Short answer question. |
08:53 | The student will be expected to type in a word or phrase, in response to the question. |
09:00 | Click on Create a new question button and double-click on Short answer option. |
09:08 | Create the question as shown. |
09:11 | In Case sensitivity dropdown, select No, case is unimportant. |
09:18 | The correct answer to this question is “same logarithmic spiral” |
09:24 | I am willing to give full marks to a student if whose answer is either:
“same spiral” or “same logarithmic spiral” |
09:35 | However, if the student writes “logarithmic spiral” as the answer, I will give half mark. |
09:43 | Scroll down to the answers section. |
09:46 | Fill in Answer 1 and 2 and their respective grades as shown. |
09:52 | Notice the asterix in Answer 1 text.
Asterix can be used as a wildcard to match any character. |
10:02 | So for eg: A student writes The evolute of a logarithmic spiral is the same logarithmic spiral.
This answer will be awarded full marks. |
10:15 | Fill in Answer 3 and its respective grade as shown. |
10:20 | Notice there is no asterix before the answer text. |
10:24 | So for example: A student writes The evolute of a logarithmic spiral is not the same logarithmic spiral.
This answer will be not be awarded any marks. |
10:37 | Fill in Answer 4 and its respective grade as shown. |
10:43 | Notice that I have awarded only 50% marks to this answer. |
10:48 | In the feedback textarea, type “You need to specify that it’s the same spiral and not any spiral.” |
10:57 | This explanation will be shown to the student as feedback. |
11:02 | Once again, I will keep Penalty for each incorrect try field as 0%. |
11:09 | Then scroll down and click on Save changes button. |
11:14 | Let us now add a Numerical question. |
11:18 | Click on Create a new question button and double click on Numerical option. |
11:26 | Create the question as shown. |
11:29 | The answer to this question is 5mm.
However, I am okay with the student answering anywhere between 4.5mm and 5.5mm. |
11:41 | The error margin here is 0.5. |
11:45 | Scroll down to the Answers section. |
11:48 | Enter the Answers, Error and grades as shown. |
11:53 | Expand the Unit handling section.
There are 3 options in the Unit handling dropdown. |
12:00 | I will select the option - The unit must be given, and will be graded. |
12:07 | The Unit penalty field, by default, shows 0.1
I will make it 0.5. |
12:16 | So the student will get half of the marks if they write the answer without mentioning the unit. |
12:23 | In the Units are input using dropdown, I will select the text input element option. |
12:31 | This means the student has to type the unit along with the answer. |
12:37 | Expand the Units section. |
12:40 | Write Unit as mm and multiplier is 1. This means the answer choices are in mm. |
12:50 | Once again, I will keep Penalty for each incorrect try field as 0%. |
12:57 | And then scroll down and click on Save changes button. |
13:02 | With this, we come to the end of this tutorial.
Let us summarize. |
13:08 | In this tutorial, we learnt about: Question bank in Moodle |
13:14 | Categories of questions and How to add questions to the question bank. |
13:22 | Here is a small assignment for you: Add more questions in the question bank. |
13:28 | Refer to the Assignment link of this tutorial for details. |
13:34 | Pause this tutorial and resume when done. |
13:38 | We should now have 10 questions in this question bank.
6 of them are in Evolutes and 4 in Involutes subcategory. |
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