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.
Quizzes
Adding Instructions in Quizzes
You may wish to add instructions or a description to a set of questions on a Moodle quiz.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
How to Preview a Moodle Quiz
Once you have your quiz set up in Moodle, it is highly recommended to preview your quiz to make sure everything looks and works as you wish before the exam opens to students.
Scheduling an Exam in the Testing Centre
To schedule an exam in the Testing Centre you will need have the following information:
- The requested dates for running your exam. Please note for larger class sizes you will have to run your exam for a minimum of 3 days. The scheduling works on a first come, first serve basis, so please get your exam dates to us as early as possible to get the dates you want.
- The number of students in your class.
- Your course name, number, and section
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Allowing Students to Copy/Paste into an Exam/Quiz
If you have an exam outside of the Testing Centre, and would like to allow students to copy/paste content into a Moodle quiz, you will have to adjust the security settings.
Accommodated Exam Overrides
When delivering a Moodle Quiz as an open book exam, you as the instructor will be able to set up overrides for students.
Moodle Exam Set Up Reminders
Important Moodle Exam Information
Please check over ALL Moodle exam questions BEFORE the opening date of the exam. Once students attempt the exam, errors in the questions are not easily fixed.
Marking Exams
When you use the Moodle Quiz Tool, a lot of the question types are automatically graded for you. (Multiple Choice, True & False, Matching, etc)