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Calculated and Calculated Simple

Calculated questions require a student to calculate a numerical answer given specific values for variables in a formula. For example, a question might ask a student to compute the area of a triangle given two numbers for the base and height of the triangle. The numbers for the variables are generated randomly per attempt, so that different students taking the quiz will be given different sets of numbers. The Calculated simple question type is a simpler version of the calculated question type.

Calculated Multichoice

These questions require a student to choose the correct numeric answer from a selection of answers. The answers are computed based on a randomly generated set of values for variables in a formula. For example, a question might ask the student to compute the area of a triangle given two randomly generated values for the base and height of a triangle, and then provide a set of possible numerical answers for the student to choose from.

Drag and Drop onto Image

Respondents must drag and drop images and text onto a background image with preset fields set by the instructor. For example, an instructor can have a diagram and ask students to drag and drop labels. (Similar to Drag and drop markers, but students see preset target areas and can only drop items into those areas.).

Drag and Drop Markers

These questions require a student to drag and drop a marker onto a background image. The instructor will have defined preset drop zones which determine whether or not a student is correct. For example, a question might ask a student to drag and drop the names of countries onto a world map or the names of plants onto a picture of a forest. (Similar to Drag and drop onto image, but students do not see preset target areas and can drop markers anywhere on the image.).

Drag and Drop into Text

Students are asked to drag and drop text boxes into questions' text. These could be used as a fill in the blank question to make a sentence true or to match definitions to terms.

Embedded Answers (Cloze)

These very flexible questions consist of a passage of text that has various answers embedded within it, including multiple choice, short answers and numerical answers.

Essay

In response to a question (the text for which may include an image), the respondent writes an answer in essay format. These must be graded manually by an instructor.

Matching

The respondent must match the correct answers with each question. A list of sub-questions is provided, along with a list of answers.

Multiple Choice

In response to a question (the text for which may include an image), the respondent chooses from multiple answers. There are two types of multiple choice questions - single answer (where there is only one correct answer) and multiple answer (where the student can pick all answers that apply).

Numerical

From the student perspective, a numerical question looks just like a short-answer question in that they enter their answer into a short edit box. The difference is that the answer has to be numerical and answers are allowed to have an accepted error range. This allows a continuous range of answers within a particular tolerance of the correct answer.

Select Missing Words

These questions contain drop-down lists of possible answer choices embedded within text. Students must select the correct word or phrase from these lists given the text.

Short Answer

In response to a question (the text for which may include an image), the respondent enters a word or phrase. There may be several possible correct answers, with different grades for various options. Answers may or may not be sensitive to case.

True/False

In response to a question (the text for which may include an image), the student selects either True or False.

Description

Description is not a question type, but a way to display additional text (including images) within the quiz. For example, this can be used to provide information needed by a group of questions.

How questions behave

The following question behaviors are available when creating a quiz (also when previewing questions):

Deferred feedback

Students must enter an answer to each question and then submit the entire quiz, before anything is graded or they get any feedback.

Adaptive mode and Adaptive mode (no penalties)

Allows students to have multiple attempts at the question before moving on to the next question. This behaviour requires that the "Whether correct" box is ticked under "During the attempt" in the "Review options" section, at a minimum.

Manual grading

Used for essay questions (irrespective of what the quiz is set to) but you can now choose to have every question in the quiz manually graded, if you wish.

Interactive with multiple tries

Used for allowing multiple attempts on the same question (perhaps with a grade penalty). Students answer the question and click the 'Check' button. If the answer is wrong, the student can click the 'Try again' button to try a new response. Importantly, the question definition must contain hints that will be shown after each incorrect attempt, though the hint text can be as minimal as an HTML non-breaking space. Once the student has got the question right, they can no longer change their response.

Immediate feedback

Similar to interactive mode in that the student can submit their response immediately during the quiz attempt, and get it graded. However, they can only submit one response, they cannot change it later.

Deferred feedback or Immediate feedback with Certainty-based marking (CBM)

With CBM, the student does not only answer the question, but they also indicate how sure they are they got the question right. The grading is adjusted by the choice of certainty, so that students have to reflect honestly on their own level of knowledge in order to get the best mark.

Conditional questions

If using the Interactive with multiple tries or Immediate Feedback behaviour and with the navigation method set to 'Free', it is possible to make the display of a question dependent on a previous question being answered first.

Question bank

This feature allows a teacher to create, preview, and edit questions in a database of question categories. The categories can be limited to being used on the site, course or quiz level. The questions in a category can be added to a Quiz or to a lesson activity via an export process. The teacher enters the question bank by creating or editing a quiz activity or via Course administration

Select a category

Questions are organised into categories. Initially each course has only one category called "Default". It is good practice to create more categories to organize your questions. This not only makes it easier to find questions, but makes the use of random questions and matching question easier. You can create a hierarchy of categories because you can create subcategories inside parent categories.

Categories are shared in contexts

There are separate question category trees in each different 'context' in which questions are shared. The contexts available to you depend on whether you access the question bank from an activity or from a course and depend on the permissions assigned you for access to questions.