Moodle 2.0

Evaluating Students with Quizzes, Choices, and Feedback
Question behavior
The setting Shuffle within questions enables you to present the parts of a question
in random order. This only works if three conditions are true. First, this option must
be set to Yes. Second, the question must have several parts, for example as a multiple
choice question or a matching question. This setting has no effect on something like a
fill-in-the-blank question. Third, each question also has a "shuffle" setting of its own,
and that must also be set to Yes.
The Adaptive mode setting allows multiple attempts for each question. This is
different from Attempts allowed, which allows multiple attempts at the whole quiz.
When you make a quiz adaptive, each question offers you the option to:
• Display a message if the student answered incorrectly, and redisplay the
question.
• Display a message if the student answered incorrectly, and then display a
different question.
Clicking on the Show Advanced button reveals two more settings.
Apply penalties will subtract a penalty from the quiz score, for a wrong answer. For
each question that the student answers incorrectly, points are subtracted from the
student's score. You can choose the penalty for each question when you create that
question. This only works if three conditions are true. First, Adaptive mode must be
set to Yes. Second, Apply penalties must also be set to Yes. Third, an amount for the
penalty must be specified; this is done in the question itself.
Each attempt builds on the last only has an effect if multiple attempts are allowed.
When this is enabled, each attempt that a student makes will display the results of
the student's previous attempt. The student can then see how they answered and
scored on the previous attempt.
The setting for Each attempt builds on the last is especially useful
when you are using a quiz as a teaching tool, instead of an evaluation
tool. Attempts allowed allows the student to keep trying the quiz. Each
attempt builds on the last retains the answers from one attempt to
another. Taken together, these two settings can be used to create a quiz
that the student can keep trying until they gets it right. This transforms
the quiz from a test into a learning tool.
Review options
Review options determine what information a student can see when they reviews a
quiz, and when they can see that information.
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