Adding activities

Activities, such as forums, quizzes and wikis enable interactive content to be added to the course. Some are only suitable for a tutor/teacher-supported course.

Quiz

Testing your quiz

The Course Manager and Teacher roles give you enhanced permissions for editing the quiz. However, they do not let you see how the learner will see the quiz because the editor preview mode for each question does not use the same visual layout as the learner would see and does not replicate what the question looks like on a mobile device.

Enrol a colleague onto the course (or a test account, using another email address) and give them the Reviewer role to test the quiz: 

  • Choose wrong answers to questions to check whether too many hints have been provided in relation to the number of answer choices available. You can reduce the number of hints to reduce the number of tries, and adjust the penalty percentage as appropriate.
  • Choose wrong answers to questions to test how the questions behave and what, where and when feedback and navigational messages appear for learners.
  • Use the browser developer tools to display the quiz in mobile mode to confirm that the questions display correctly. For example, long boxes in drag and drop questions will fall beyond the display space and force a scrollbar to appear, which is not a good user experience for learners. This might mean that the question needs to be redesigned to work better on a small screen. 

If a quiz has a pass grade applied, you will also need to do the following checks:

  • Attempt the quiz to check that the marks and grade awarded have been calculated correctly. For example, if the quiz has a total of 10 marks with a pass grade of 50%, you might score 5 but are not shown that you have achieved a pass. Check that the maximum grade and pass grade have been entered correctly, and update these settings if necessary; your colleague/test account can then refresh their view of the quiz review screen to check that the grades and percentages are now correct.
  • When you have configured the overall feedback messages at grade boundaries, use your test account to see which message you get when you get a score close to the pass grade boundary. Moodle’s guidance for overall feedback at grade boundaries tends to use rounded percentages (e.g. 50%) for a pass/fail boundary; in practice you may prefer to set it to 49.9% for the fail message rather than 50%. 

You can delete all these test attempts of the quiz, especially if adjustments need to be made to questions during testing or if you have enabled a time delay on repeat attempts of the quiz.