Adding Activities

11. StudentQuiz

StudentQuiz is not to be confused with the main Moodle Quiz, as it serves a different purpose. It is only suitable for use in courses with a tutor or teacher.

StudentQuiz allows students to add questions for the crowd (in their course). In the overview the students can filter questions. They can also use the filtered questions in the crowd to practice when preparing for examinations or other assessments. The teacher has an option to anonymise the created by column. The StudentQuiz activity awards the students with points to motivate them to add and practice. The points are listed in a ranking table.

The Moodle.org description of Student Quiz:

Students like quizzes to prepare for exams. However, it’s hard to create all the questions needed for assessments and exams. That’s where the Moodle plugin StudentQuiz comes in. StudentQuiz enables students to collaboratively create their own question pools within Moodle. This allows a better learning experience because knowledge is actively constructed by the learner, not just passively received from the environment. And even if an individual student contributes a few questions only, a larger cohort can easily build up an extensive question pool.

In StudentQuiz, learners can create individualised quizzes. They also add their feedback to each question by rating and commenting while working through the quizzes. Students can see their personal learning progress, and they can compare their contribution and competence with their peer group. Furthermore, the created questions become part of the Moodle question bank and can be reused in standard Moodle quizzes.

The teacher can approve/disapprove questions or hide or delete questions. The teacher can also configure:

• whether students’ names are displayed or kept anonymous.

• whether questions are published right away or have to be approved first.

• the number of points assigned to questions contributed and answers given. 

• what user roles to exclude from participation.

• what question types are allowed to be added to the pool.

• whether students are enforced to rate questions.

• whether students are enforced to comment questions.

The Moodle.org site provides a quick introduction video to StudentQuiz and also has a longer (16 minute) video for teachers who are setting up a StudentQuiz for their students in a course.