Quizzes in Moodle

… is there any learning resource on how to set-up Online Test or Quiz on Moodle?

There is a lot of help within Moodle for using quizzes.

When you start to set up a quiz, you would turn the editing on and then from the Add an activity or resource option, click quiz. When you've clicked quiz, you'll see a list of useful information about the quiz activity. At the bottom of that list you'll see an information link that says more help. When you click this you go through to Moodle documents. This will automatically take you to the correct version of Moodle documents which is now 2.5 at Coventry University. Here you will find some information about how to set up a quiz in Moodle.  Here's the link anyway:
http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/mod/quiz/view

Gavin Henrick provides a useful introduction to Moodle quiz in his presentation on Slideshare. Note that some of the later slides show some hints and tips for the settings.
http://www.slideshare.net/ghenrick/moodle-quiz-presentation

In addition to that information, you will find several useful YouTube videos. Here are two examples:

The quiz activity by Moodle is actually part of the Learn Moodle 2013 series using Moodle 2.5 and it was recorded by Mary Cooch, who is known as Moodle fairy. It talks you through different types of questions and again is a great introduction to the quiz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kziLSNK4MzQ


Creating a quiz in Moodle 2.5 by Japan Eric is very useful because it talks you through a lot of the settings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h1Gzm7Rh44

Using Moodle's Realtime Quiz

I heard about Moodle plugin Realtime Quiz from a colleague so thought I'd give it a go. To learn how to use it, I viewed a YouTube video made by the creator of the plugin, Davo Smith. I found the video extremely useful because it gave a demonstration of Realtime Quiz  in use and it talked me (teacher) through the process. (Videos are great because they can be replayed and I would not have understood the reason for each of 3 options at one stage.) Also, I learnt about the significance of naming a session and easily being able to test it beforehand.

When I set up the questions, they had to be single option multi-choice, so I needed to re-word some of the questions.

I like the fact that you can choose a "No right answer" where an opinion, not a fact is needed. This was useful for asking people about what topic the felt least confident in using and giving a set of options.

Issues in my session

The issues are to do with the way I set it up, not the plugin. It worked beautifully.

The timing, especially having a wordy question in question 2.  (I could have changed individual questions' times and the default time.)

Answering skills

Apart from the wordy question 2, the lowest response was for question 1... this may be because all of the people in the group had tablets (Android or iPad) that were new to them and some had problems. Also on at least one occasion, someone pressed an option accidentally... Realtime Quiz is very unforgiving and takes the first "press", not allowing anyone to change their mind.

Next time

What I would do next time - yes, there will be a next time! 

• Make question 1 a longer response time.
• Build up to more complex questions.
• I had the opinion questions after the scoring questions and stated on more than one occasion that they were not for scoring. I think that worked. I might try alternatives.

Moodle for Tutors of the Linguae Mundi courses

The organisation

Each language (10) had a Moodle course assigned to it. There was more than one tutor teaching some of the languages so groups were used in Moodle. Tutors had their own groups of students. Corresponding Moodle groups were set up and students selected the Moodle group to which they belonged. They then had access to the resources and activities that were put into Moodle by their tutor.

As a result, the training materials contained some information about groups and selective release, as well as using a Forum that has a Separate Groups setting.

Preparing Documents

To make the document more accessible, I recommended marking the language within a document and using Styles in Word. I showed some short movies that I created. They use the Word 2007 version but the options are similar.

Resources

The accessibility movies and a link to my handout for this session are all available on this page. (I created the page using Mahara.)

Moodle for colleagues working in the library

I created a Moodle course/web with several items, including selective release, images in the blocks, RSS feeds.

I used selective release to enable participants decide which topics they wanted to see.  Also they needed to add a message to the forum and an item in the glossary to release more items.

I created a guide to give instructions for access and made the course a self-enrolment with a key.

I presented it today to 28 library colleagues. They all managed to access it and all did most of the activities.

I'm sure that they learnt more than just a demonstration.

News (RSS) feed block to Moodle

These instructions show you how to add a block that shows RSS feeds to Moodle:

My video and printable PDF "how to" guides.

You can also add an RSS feed to a twitter account too.  To do this, I referred to a separate blog which works. (Today) :)  Here is the solution:

For an account called xxxxx you can use the feed link:

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=xxxxx

Put the name instead of the xxxxx

For example, for the user found at http://twitter.com/covcampus
I found that the following feed worked:

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=covcampus

Not any more! See the separate blog plus update.

Star Rating

My comments on a "star-rated" system for online learning

I'm referring to Moodle here because that's what's used at Coventry University.

I think that a "star-rated" system would be great and would be one way of rewarding those who do well. I agree that it could also be used as a method to encourage tutors who need to improve their online presence.

I think that a "star-rated" system, if supplied with the right criteria, push, leadership and rewards, could be made to work.