Quizzes

Copying an Exam from One Course Section to Another

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Information About Booking Exams in the Testing Centre (for instructors)

If you are an instructor and want to use the Testing Centre to have your students write an exam, here is some information that you should know about how the Testing Centre operates as well as the information you will need to provide to us in the Teaching Centre so we can book your exam properly.

Adding Instructions in Quizzes

You may wish to add instructions or a description to a set of questions on a Moodle quiz. 

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How Can I Access my Exam Statistics?

Moodle is capable of providing detailed statistics of your Moodle exam. If you are interested in getting an overview of your exam results you can access the statistics for the exam quite easily.  

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Importing Aiken Formatted Questions

Rather than creating individual questions in Moodle you can have multiple questions constructed in a text document that you can then import into Moodle. The Aiken Format provides you with an easy way to import multiple choice questions into Moodle.

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Students Can’t Access Moodle Home-based Exams

If you are giving an exam on Moodle that is open to take from anywhere, and students are unable to access the exam, you may want to first troubleshoot these two steps.

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Randomizing Quiz Questions in Moodle

When adding questions to a quiz in Moodle you can choose to keep those questions in order, randomly select from categories, or create new questions as you go along. In this tutorial, we will show you how to randomize questions in your Moodle quiz.

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How to Release Quiz Grades to Students

This tutorial will show you how to release your exam marks to students. (this can also include any feedback given to students on the exam)

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Importing Essay and Short Answer Questions

Rather than creating individual questions in Moodle you can import a document with multiple questions at a time. To import short answer and/or essay questions into Moodle you must follow some simple formatting and save the file as a GIFT file format for importing into Moodle. 

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Changing Point Values for Exam Questions

Once you have your Moodle exam created you may want to change the default point value for each question. Moodle defaults each question to be worth one point. 

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