You can use quizzes to ask learners to do the following:
Each of these different assessment options can be supported in questions which do not require the learner to write a paragraph or essay and can be designed to draw quite complex thought processes and responses from learners.
Question types available in Moodle quiz include the following:
Questions either require a selected response in which all possible answers are available for the learner to choose from, or a constructed response in which the learner must work out their own answer, though the author would ensure there are a very small number of potentially correct answers against which the learner response can be compared.
Numeric and selected response questions are suitable for using in an open online course for supporting learning and effective assessment. Examples of selected response questions include:
Please note that drag and drop quiz questions do have accessibility issues for some users – older browsers do not support drag and drop questions so well as new ones (many learners will be using older browsers) and some tablets also have problems with drag and drop. Therefore you need to consider how much you are going to use this question type in your quiz and if there is a pass grade, whether there are sufficient questions of other types to enable a learner to pass if they cannot use the drag and drop questions successfully.
Only some constructed response questions are suitable for an open online course where there is no tutor to mark the responses, for example essay questions are impossible to mark without a tutor.
Examples of constructed response questions which can be used (with great care in the case of short answer and pattern match) include:
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