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Moodle Primer Part 1: Creating a Class

10/3/2007

By Emmett Dulaney

85% - 100%: Excellent!
70% - 85%: Good work.
60% - 70%: Be sure to read the material more thoroughly.
40% - 60%: You will need to do better on future quizzes.
Click on Save Changes, and you can begin adding questions to the quiz, as shown in Fig. 5.


Fig. 5: Once the attributes for the quiz have been defined, it is time to add the questions. Click to enlarge image.

Questions can be any of many types with the most common being short answer, multiple choice, and matching. The first order of business is to create a category to hold the questions you are going to create, then simply begin creating them.

Fig. 6 shows the beginning of a multiple choice question. This one has but one right answer, and six possible choices are given for it. Since there is only one right answer, 100 percent of the possible points (five, in this case) are given to the right answer, and nothing is subtracted for incorrect answers.


Fig. 6: It is easy to create questions within the interface. Click to enlarge image.

You can choose to give partial credit, reduce scores for some answers, and set a plethora of other options, but at least one question (or set of questions) should be worth the 100 percent, or you will get an error message telling you to correct this. Fig. 7 shows how this question will look when viewed by the student.


Fig. 7: How the question will appear to the student. Click to enlarge image.

After you've begun adding questions, a checkbox will appear in addition to those already present in Fig. 5. That checkbox, visible in Fig. 8, will give you the ability to add random questions. This can be extremely useful in trying to make sure that students are not working together on the quizzes. Obviously, the more random questions you add to the pool, the less likely the same question is to be used frequently.


Fig. 8: The quiz is now created and random questions can be added if desired. Click to enlarge image.

When all of the questions for the quiz have been entered, save the changes, and you are done.

What the Student Sees
Now that a label, link, and quiz have been added, the week is pretty well finished and the process simply needs to be replicated for each of the remaining weeks. When the student logs in, they will see the interface shown in Fig. 9 and be able to access the resources and activities.


Fig. 9: What the student sees. Click to enlarge image.

In the next installment, we'll focus on the administration that must take place once students do begin taking the course.


Emmett Dulaney is an assistant professor at Anderson University and the author of several books on technology-related topics. He is a regular contributor to CertCities and can be reached at edulaney@insightbb.com.

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