Moodle/C2/Creating-a-Quiz-in-Moodle/English

Title of the script: Moodle 4.5 – Creating a Quiz in Moodle

Author: Nancy Varkey

Keywords: moodle, moodle lms, lms, learning management system, educational lms, open-source lms, quiz activity, quiz configuration, question bank, random questions, quiz preview, Moodle quiz

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Slide: Title	Welcome to this Spoken Tutorial on Moodle 4.5 - Creating a Quiz in Moodle.
Slide: Learning Objectives	In this tutorial, we will learn: What is a quiz in Moodle How to use the question bank and create a quiz How to edit a quiz How to preview a quiz
Slide: Target Audience	This tutorial is intended for teachers who want to create a quiz in Moodle.
Slide: System Requirements This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS version 22.04 Moodle version 4.5 Firefox browser You can use any OS or web browser of your choice.	Recorded with Ubuntu, Moodle 4.5, and Firefox. Use any OS or web browser of your choice.
Slide: Prerequisites To follow this tutorial, ensure you have: Moodle 4.5 installed and Teacher access to a Moodle course For the prerequisite Moodle tutorials, please visit https://EduPyramids.org	Here are the prerequisites to learn this video.
Point to the user icon	We are logged in as teacher Nitya Jeevan.
Click on My courses → Calculus	Click on My courses and Calculus.
Click on ‘Turn editing on’	Ensure that editing is turned on at the top right.
Slide	Let’s understand what a quiz is. A quiz allows the teacher to assess students through various types of questions. A quiz provides automated grading and various feedback options.
Click on Course menu	Click on Course menu.
Basic Calculus → Click “Add an activity or resource” → Quiz → Expand all	To create a quiz, scroll to Basic Calculus. Click Add an activity or resource and select Quiz. Click Expand all.
Name: Quiz for Basic Calculus Configure Timing Open time: 1 July 10am Close time: 1 July 5pm Time limit: 10 mins	Type the quiz name. Description is optional, and configure Timing settings.
Configure Grade to 8, Layout to Every 5 questions and Question behavior as shown in the screenshot	Configure Grade, Layout and Question behavior.
	Next we’ll configure the Review options settings.
Show “Review options” section	Under Review options, choose what the student can see after the attempt—such as feedback, correct answers, and scores.
Click “Save and return to course” → Point to the quiz	Scroll down and click Save and return to course. The quiz is now created!
Click “Edit quiz”	Click Edit quiz.
Click Add question	See where the pointer is pointing. Click Add question. On the next page, click Add, and select from question bank.
Point to Default for Math-101 Select Calc-Matching-004 and Calc-TF-002	Default for Math-101 is the default question category displayed. Select both questions, and click Add selected questions to the quiz.
Point to the 2 questions' Add → a random question	The 2 questions are visible in the quiz now. To add random questions, click Add and select a random question.
Click Apply filters	On the next page, click Type or select dropdown, select MCQs with single answers and click Apply filters.
MCQs with single answers → Number of questions - 2	In Number of random questions choose 2. Click Add random question.
Short answer questions - add 1 random question to the quiz	Repeat the same steps for Short answer questions category and add 1 random question.
Point to the 5 questions in the quiz	The quiz now contains a mix of random and specific questions. Each question carries 1 mark.
Highlight this portion	Now, let’s look at the settings for Maximum grade, Total of marks and Shuffle.
Point to Maximum grade → Change to 100 and press Enter	Maximum grade is the highest possible score for the quiz. Change this number to 100 for percentage scores.
Point to Total of marks → Change the marks for any 1 question to 2 and revert the change	Total of marks is the sum of individual question marks. Changing individual question marks will update the total accordingly.
Point to Shuffle and check the box	Let’s enable the Shuffle option. This shuffles question order for each student.
Click the Save button	After configuring the quiz, click Save.
Highlight or point to Grade to pass: 8.00 out of 100.00	Recall that the Grade to pass was set as 8 earlier.
Click Settings in the menu → Expand all → Grade to pass: 80 → Scroll down and click Save and return to course	Go back to Settings and change Grade to pass to 80 or your preferred grade. Save changes.
Click Quiz menu → Grade to pass: 80.00 out of 100.00	Now, the Quiz menu shows Grade to pass: 80.00 out of 100.00.
Click Preview quiz	Use Preview quiz to view the quiz as a student.
Click Start Attempt	Read instructions in the pop-up and click Start Attempt. This shows how students see the quiz.
Point to the countdown timer clock	The countdown timer begins.
Answer the questions → click Finish Attempt	Answer questions, then click Finish Attempt. On the next page, click Submit all and finish.
Scroll the attempt	Review your quiz attempt and grades.
	So, that’s how you create and preview a quiz in Moodle.
Slide: Summary To summarise, we learnt: What a quiz in Moodle is How to use the question bank and create a quiz with specific and random questions How to preview a quiz	Here is the summary of this tutorial.
Slide: Assignment As an assignment, open the quiz settings and set the Overall feedback as follows: Feedback for Grade boundary 100%: Excellent performance Feedback for Grade boundary 50%: You need to work harder Feedback for Grade boundary 30%: Please meet the teacher separately to discuss how to improve your performance	We encourage you to try out this assignment.
Slide: Acknowledgement Domain Expert: Nancy Varkey	This tutorial is brought to you by EduPyramids Educational Service, SINE, IIT Bombay. Thank you for watching!

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