2.2 The Create. Preview, Edit cycle

Create your first True/False question

Now that you have seen how to do it please create your own True/False question.

Exercise 2.1 Create your first True/False question

  1. From the Question bank menu choose Questions.
  2. Change the 'Select a category' dropdown to 'Interactive'.
  3. From the 'Create a new question' chooser select 'True/False'.
  4. Complete the authoring form with your own question.
  5. When you have completed the form scroll to the bottom and click on Save changes. Your question is now saved and you are returned to the Question Bank.

Preview your first question

Having written your first question the next step is to 'preview' it. That is to look at it as your students will look at it.

Exercise 2.2 Preview your first question

  1. Preview your question by clicking on the magnifying glass icon alongside the question name in the question bank.
    1. Set How questions behave to 'Interactive with multiple tries'. (Clearly True/False questions can't have multiple tries but the system remembers this setting for future use.)
    2. Set Whether correct to 'Shown'
    3. Set Marks to 'Show mark and max'
    4. Set Specific feedback to 'Shown'
    5. Set General feedback to 'Shown'
    6. Set Right answer to 'Not shown' (Do not rely on the automatically generated right answer as this can be very cumbersome for some question types and not the whole story for others. Instead get used to writing your own solution.
    7. Set Response history to 'Not shown'. (It just gets in the way when you are developing.)
  2. Try three responses, true, false and nothing (don't select either answer but just 'Submit and finish'). Pay particular attention to how the specific feedback and general feedback read when put together and note how the Status panel is updated.

Edit your first question

You may, or may not, wish to amend your words, but what you do need to know is how to make such amendments.

Exercise 2.3 Edit your first question

  1. Edit your question by clicking on the 'Edit icon' (which may be a notepad or a cog wheel) alongside the question name in the question bank.
  2. When you have completed your editing scroll to the bottom and click on Save changes. Your question is now saved and you are returned to the Question Bank.

In this way you may edit your questions as often as you require.

2.1 Common question features

2.3 Pros and Cons of True/False questions