Moodle 2.0

Chapter 7
Type of question
Short Answer
Numerical
Random
Random Short-Answer
Matching
True/False
Description and tips for using
The student types a word or phrase into the answer field. This is
checked against the correct answer or answers. There may be several
correct answers, with different grades.
Your answers can use the asterisk a wildcard. You cam also set the
answers to be case sensitive.
Just as with a short-answer question, the student enters an answer
into the answer field. However, the answer to a numerical question
can have an acceptable error, which you set when creating the
question. For example, you can designate that the correct answer is
5, plus or minus 1. Then, any number from 4 to 6 inclusive will be
marked correct.
When this type of question is added to a quiz, Moodle draws a
question at random from the current category. The question is drawn
at the time that the student takes the quiz. The student will never
see the same question twice during a single attempt at the quiz, no
matter how many random questions you put into the quiz. This
means that the category you use for your random questions must
have at least as many questions as the random ones that you add to
the quiz.
Recall that a matching question consists of subquestions, and
answers that must be matched to each subquestion. When you select
Random Short-Answer Matching, Moodle draws random shortanswer
questions from the current category. It then uses those shortanswer
questions, and their answers, to create a matching question.
To the student, this looks just like any other matching question.
The difference is that the subquestions were drawn at random from
short-answer questions in the current category.
The student selects from two options: True or False.
Adding feedback to a question
Moodle allows you to create several different kinds of feedback for a quiz. You can
create feedback for:
• The entire quiz, which changes with the student's score. This is called Overall
Feedback, and uses a feature called Grade Boundary.
• A question. The exact type of feedback that you can create for a question
varies according to the type of question. In this section, we'll look at feedback
for multiple choice questions. In the next section, Assemble the Quiz, we'll look
at feedback for the entire quiz.
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