{"id":801,"date":"2024-05-22T15:48:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T15:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.moodleanswers.com\/changing-point-values-for-exam-questions-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:24:44","slug":"changing-point-values-for-exam-questions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/2024\/05\/22\/changing-point-values-for-exam-questions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Point Values for Exam Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To change the point value, you must first get into your exam editing page. Click on the exam you want to work on, then click on the <strong>Questions\u00a0<\/strong>tab at the top.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-799\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2015\/10\/questions-0b3.png\" width=\"551\" height=\"142\" loading=\"lazy\" data-path=\"local-images:\/New Theme 4.1\/questions.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2015\/10\/questions-0b3.png 551w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2015\/10\/questions-0b3-300x77.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will be able to\u00a0see your list of exam questions. Click on <strong>the pencil<\/strong> in the box that shows 1.00 point each, this will highlight the point value.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-800\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/files\/2015\/10\/point_value-cf7.png\" width=\"272\" height=\"91\" loading=\"lazy\" data-path=\"local-images:\/New Theme 4.1\/point_value.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Type in your new point value and hit <strong>Enter<\/strong>\u00a0on your keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>The point value for that question should now be\u00a0changed. You can continue working through all the questions until all your point values\u00a0have been adjusted as needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Each question has to\u00a0be manually adjusted, unfortunately there is no way in Moodle to select multiple questions at a time to change the point value.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[77,41,132,131,70,76],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grading","category-quizzes","tag-exam","tag-moodle","tag-point-value","tag-quiz-questions","tag-quiz","tag-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/moodle-answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}