How to Create a Problem Using the Moodle Platform. A teacher can test a student's abilities by giving an exam such as a quiz. One of the platforms that can be used to create questions in Moodle. Using this platform, you can add exams easily. Then, how to make a question using Moodle?
Requirements You Must Meet Before Making Questions Using Moodle Platforms
- Already installed Moodle on the hosting
or server. You can follow the guide on how to install Moodle on Hosting or
on a VPS server.
- You must also be registered and have
access as a teacher or teacher at Moodle.
Check out how to make a question using moodle below.
How to Make a Quiz on the Moodle Platform
Quiz is one of
the activities in moodle that allows you to create objective questions easily,
save the soa into the question bank database, present questions to students,
and give assessments automatically.
In making a quiz,
you can set when the quiz starts to be accessible and when the quiz will end,
how long the work takes, the presentation of questions randomly or in order, and the presentation of alternative multiple choice answers randomly or not. You
can also give the quiz a password and specify how many times it can be
reworked, as well as how many intervals of repetition.
Making this quiz
activity requires a question bank. Actually, you can make questions one by one
in making quizzes, but this of course will take a long time.
Check out the
steps to make the following quiz.
Creating a Quiz
- Before creating a quiz, you must
activate "Turn to edit off" which is on the right part of the
page.
- Then select a topic, then click
"Add an activity or resource".
- Next, select the activity
"Quiz".
- Then a page will appear for the Quiz
settings. In the general quiz settings, you can fill in the Quiz Title and
Quiz description. To bring up the quiz description, check the
"Display description on course page" section.
- After that, set the time for the
Quiz. In this section, there are several menus, including:
- Timing, you can set what date and time the Quiz
can be done, as well as how long the work period is.
- Grade, this menu is used to setting the frequency of
quiz work. Quizzes can be done by students a number of times, their
passing grades, and the method of assessment.
- Layout, this menu is used to set the appearance of
questions on the quiz.
- Furthermore, the "Review
Options" menu is used to set the things that students will see after
they complete the quiz. Then check the part that you want to pay attention
to the student.
- If you want to add a password to the
quiz, set the password in the "Extra restrictions on attempts"
menu.
- You can add other settings according
to your needs. After finishing setting up the quiz, then click "Save
and return to course"
Adding Questions
- The next step is to add a question.
To add questions to the quiz, you can click on the quiz that has been
created. Then the "Edit Quiz" option will appear.
- After entering the edit quiz menu,
you can click "Add" and choose how to add questions. There are
three ways to add questions, namely:
- a new question, this menu is used to add questions
one by one.
- from the question bank, this menu is to add questions from
the question bank.
- a random question, this menu is for adding questions
from the question bank at random.
- In this tutorial, you will add a
question through "from question bank". Assume you already have a
question bank. Then click "Add from bank question", then select
the question to be added. Next click "click add selected questions to
the quiz".
- The questions will be displayed in
"Edit Quiz", then click "Save".
How to Create a Question Bank
You should create
a question bank first because it will make it easier for you to make quizzes.
The question bank is a collection of questions that will be entered into the
quiz. If you already have a question bank, then you don't need to put the
questions one by one in the quiz. Check out
how to make the following questions.
Create a manual question bank
- Step one: Create categories
- In creating a question bank, you can
follow these steps:
- Enter the course that will be added
to the question bank, then click the "settings" icon at the top
right. Then click "more" to enter the "Course
Administration".
- Before you create a question bank,
create categories first to make it easier to group questions. Grouping
questions according to certain categories will make it easier for you to
manage and present questions. Then click "Categories" on the
"Question Bank" menu.
- Next, add categories according to the
group of questions. Then fill in the name and description of the category.
Then click the "Add Category" button.
- Step two: Creating the Problem
- You must enter the "Question
Bank" menu in the "Course Administration", then click
"Question".
- Select the type of category to group
the questions, then click the "Create a new question" button.
- Select the type of question to add,
then click "Add". Then you will go to the page for adding
questions, fill in the questions and adjust them to the settings as
desired.
Import Bank Question
In addition to
how to create questions manually, you can also import question banks. To
save time, you can import questions from an already available file. How to
import files to the question bank is very easy. You can go to the "Courses
Administrator" menu and then select import in the "Question Bank"
section.
Then select the
file format (adjust it to the file you are going to import), then upload the
question bank file. Then click import.
How to Make Multiple-Choice Questions in Moodle
A multiple choice
is a form of a question that presents a single question with several answer
choices that students must choose.
Manually
- How to make multiple choice questions manually is very
easy. First, go to the "Course" or selected lesson and then go
to the "Course Administration" and then click "Question".
Then select a category then click the "Create new Question"
button.
- Select the "Multiple
Choice" question type, then click "Add". Then you will
enter the question creation page.
- After the question edit page appears,
fill in the "Question name" with the question number or question
code. Then fill in the "Question Text" with the question.
- If you want the answer to appear
randomly, check "Shuffle the choices", then fill in the answer
choices in the "Answer" section and give the correct answer a
100% score. You can add a lot of answer choices, if there is only an ABCD
option then just fill in four. Then click "Save Changes".
- Repeat the creation of questions
according to the number of questions.
How do import questions?
- To save time, you can import
questions. Prepare the question file in text format. The provisions of the
problem in the text file are:
- Don't number the questions.
- The double choice option is
capitalized, then a period (.) and a space and a space only then the
answer.
- After the answer option has been
typed, type "ANSWER: A" (without quotes) below it, the word
answer is capitalized. Then colons and spaces then the correct answer
should be capitalized as well.
- The writing of questions is
spaced one space apart.
- For the selected course, then enter
"Course Administration" and then click "Import".
- Select the format in the "Aiken
Format" file, then in the import category select the name of the
newly created category. Then click "Choose a file", enter the
txt file containing the questions and click the import button.
- To display questions about the course,
go to the "Quiz" menu and select "Edit Quiz". Add
questions via "from question bank". Select the questions that
have been imported, then click "add selected questions to the
quiz".
- Click "Save".How to Create a Problem Using the Moodle Platform.