New Quiz Feature in Moodle 2.9: item dependencies
Tim Hunt has published a quick discussion on a new feature coming to Moodle 2.9 which provides additional settings to control how quizzes display their questions to students. The particular settings help to limit visibility to quiz items until a student has met the criteria (kind of like a conditional release of questions within a […]
How to fix: “Cannot find the data record in database table question_multichoice”
I use GIFT format to import most of the question banks that I create or acquire from other sources. It’s a great, easy to use way to add lots of questions to Moodle very quickly. One word of caution though is that before you upload a file you should check your GIFT file in a […]
Video: Hot Pot for Moodle 2.x
The Hot Pot module was on the Moodle 1.8 site that I cut my teeth on. The handy 3rd party module provides a way for teachers to create and share various quiz and game questions and then upload them to Moodle for students to use. It does require a separate download and installation to your […]
Scaling a Quiz score using Categories and Calculations in Moodle
Say you have a need to award points for a questions that add up to higher than you’d like the entire quiz to be valued at (giving students a bit of opportunity for extra credit without using a separate activity for extra credit). For example: your exam is worth a total of 50 points Each question […]
Quiz Autosave displays warning when connection is lost
Updated in a recent Moodle release users will now be shown a warning message when/if their internet connection has dropped during the quiz. The feature, added in Moodle 2.5 and has been refined with the warning and now is documented in the Docs at Moodle.org. This is truly an awesome feature for solving and preventing student […]
200+ Algebra Questions in Moodle XML format for you to download from @mistermcintosh
Update: sadly on 8/13/13 the site domain expired so these questions are not available. Philip McIntosh, a “Learner-in-Chief” (@mistermcintosh) for Math has shared 3 sets of over 200 questions total at his blog for download: http://mistermcintoshsays.org/question-bank/. The questions focus on Absolute Value, integers addition and subtraction. If you’re a math teacher searching for some ready-made questions […]
Frankie Kam releases his code for Framed Quiz/Adjunct Content
We highlighted Frankie’s cool frame-up of quiz materials and supplemental links/information last week. Frankie posted in the comments today that he’s sharing the code so that everyone can try out the Xerte-created tool he made to produce that effect. Download the package of code: http://scm.moodleace.com/mod/resource/view.php?id=2070 Video featuring the tool: http://goo.gl/JGM5Q Original post at Moodlenews: http://goo.gl/5JfCM SCM Moodle: http://scm.moodleace.com/
Quickly Create a Database Activity
The creators of Moodle XML Converter (a utility for creating Moodle questions banks using the XML format) have a new, quick presentation which makes the case for using the Database Activity and provides a few tips on creating it more quickly by using CSV files with the database fields already propagated. The example used in […]
How to Export/Import Quiz Questions in Moodle (Video by @glynnmark)
Screenr user @Glynnmark has a short (2 minute) video that succinctly highlights the process and decisions you’ll need to make for exporting a category of questions using the GIFT format if you’d like to share it with the community/a colleague. Check out the great video by visiting this link [http://screenr.com/L1Z] or by watching it below. If […]
Ask Mr. Moodle: Can I add Images to Answers in the Moodle Quiz?
@Moodlerific posed this great question yesterday and it’s short answer is “YES”. Adding images to possible answers in Multiple Choice (MC) questions provides an easy way to mix up the questions posed to students and provides more freedom in test design. Here’s the long answer and “how to” on adding images to MC answers within […]
