Title: Lesson 2 - Question types
Course: Moodle Features Demo > Section: Lessons

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This is the 2nd Lesson. It will allow the teacher and student to see different examples of questions.

In the student view mode, the user will be able to jump to a specific question type from here. The answers will be obvious, so it will be easy to move through the lesson.

The lesson settings in Lesson 2 are a little bit different from Lesson 1. We wanted to make it more robust for a teacher example. We have turned on custom scoring and will show the student their on going score. While we will allow retakes and will record their maximum (best) score for all sessions attempted, students can only attempt one recorded try per question. Some answers are scored higher than others. A student must attempt 4 questions or their percentage score will not be the maximum of 4. We are sending 50% of their score will go to into the gradebook.

Please start with the Multiple Choice question button below, you will need to answer at least 5 questions and that is the best place to start.

Remember we have placed a " * " in front of the answer we consider the best.

Multiple Choice Question

This is a Multiple Choice question and is the default question type. The student is asked to choose one answer from a set of alternatives. The wrong answers are sometimes called the distractors and the utility of these questions often rely more on the quality of the distractors than either the questions themselves or their correct answers.

A brief review:

Each answer can have a response. If no response is entered for an answer then a default response is shown to the student. It is possible to turn off these responses in Lesson Settings. Each answers may give the student different responses and jump to different pages in the lesson. Each answer maybe scored.

Be sure to read the answers carefully, if you miss the question and come back, the order just might be different.

What is the correct answer?

- The correct answer if you want to miss the question
- The wrong answer
- A guessed answer
- *The correct answer if you want to get the question right

Multiple Choice Multianswer

Multiple Choice questions, with the Multianswer box check, offer some other ways to test knowledge. In this type, the student can select more than one answer.

When constructing this type of question in a lesson, the teacher should be aware that the responses, jumps and scoring is very different than a multiple choice question. For a teacher it can be a complicated question to score.

Simply put for the best effect, all correct answers should have the same response, the same jump and the same score. This should also be true for all wrong answers in a question. There is no partial credit given for a combination of answers, the student selects every correct answer or the student misses the question.

How do you want to answer this question? Remember to get it right you have to select ALL the correct answers.

- *This is Answer 4 in edit mode and a correct answer.
Feedback: Here is the response placed in every correct answer
- This is Answer 3 in edit mode and is a wrong answer.
Feedback: Here is the response placed in every wrong answer, remember the student must select all the correct answers and no wrong answers to get this question type marked as correct and scored.
- *This is Answer 1 in edit mode and is a correct answer.
Feedback: Here is the response placed in every correct answer
- *This is Answer 2 in edit mode and is a correct answer.
Feedback: Here is the response placed in every correct answer

True/False Question

True/False questions are similar to a multiple choice type, except there can only be two answer. In previous versions of Moodle, there could only be one correct answer. In this version of Moodle each answer in a True/False question can be scored differently.

Remember, your students who have been trained on paper tests that True always comes before False, might miss this question.

True or False:

This is a star .

- *True, it is a star.
- False it is a light bulb.

Matching Questions

In a matching question, the student is given an answer and pull down menu to select that answer's match. Moodle will shuffle the matching list.

The student either selects all matches correctly or they will miss the entire question. The teacher puts in a single correct response, single correct jump and correct score, and a single wrong response, wrong jump and wrong score.

Match the letter in the alphabet with its numeric position. For example, the letter D is in the 4 position and the letter Z is in the 26 position.

- D
Feedback: 4
- Z
Feedback: 26
- Sorry, you did not match the lists correctly
- A
Feedback: 1
- B
Feedback: 2
- C
Feedback: 3
- Good, you matched the two lists correctly

Short Answer Questions

The short answer question can be used several ways. It can be used as a "fill in the blank" or for simple direct answers to a question.

In the default evaluation method, the answers should be listed from best to worst. * is a wild card and can be used more than once.

An example question: "Moodle is an ________________ program." Our best fill in the bank answer is "open source course management software". That would go in the first answer.

One of the answers could be listed as:
open source * management*

This answer would filter out these two different answers by a student
"open source lesson management hardware"
"open source 123 management what ever you call it"

Here is another simple question with some answers that have wild cards placed in them.

See how we entered the "answers" for the question below.
Answer1 = Moodle
Answer2= Moo*
Answer3= Bl*
Answer4=*

We entered a difference response and scored each of the answers.

You can find more about evaluating a short answer in Lessonin MoodleDocs

What is the name of this program. (Hint: )

- *
Feedback: I am looking for Moodle. With this answer you will be scored 0 of the 5 points. Don't feel bad, there was a chance you might have received a lower score than that.
- Bl*
Feedback: I asked about FREE open source software. I am giving you -2 points for this 5 point question. If you ask me, then maybe I will give you an extra credit assignment on how Moodle got its name.
- Moo*
Feedback: You have to spell it better than that for full credit, I gave you 2 out of 5 points for effort
- Moodle

Numerical Questions

1 + 1 + ?
A numerical question is similar to short answer question because the student enters a number and it is evaluated by a list of possible answers set up by the teacher.

The list of answers can contain exact numbers or a range of numbers. The range should be in the form minimum : maximum (for example 1.31:1.32 is a number not lower than 1.31 and not higher than 1.32). Ranges also useful in describing an exact number when the computer tries to round the number.

As in a short answer, the student entry is evaluated from the first answer to the last.

In the following question we have put these as our answers
1. 3.1416169:3.1416171
2. 3.14159:3.14161
3. 3.139:3.1401
4. -100000000:100000000

The last answer should take care of most of the wrong answers, so we can give a response.

3.141617 is our best answer, what number will you type?

- -100000000:100000000
Feedback: Not even close, 0 points of 2 possible points for this question.
- 3.139:3.1401
Feedback: Close 3.14 , score 1 of 2 possible points
- 3.14159:3.14161
Feedback: I was looking for 3.141617 but I will give you the full 2 points credit
- 3.1416169:3.1416171
Feedback: Yes, the answer is 3.141617 and you will get 2 points.

Essay Questions

The essay question is not graded at the time of the lesson but is set aside for the teacher. The student is given their score and told that it does not include the essay question.

The teacher will find the grade essays link via Settings > Lesson administration.

The grader will be able to enter a custom comment in response the student essay and be able to assign a score.

The teacher can assign a jump when the student has completed the page and a maximum score for the question. In this Lesson, this question is scored as 1 and the jump is set to the next page.

Last Page in Question Lesson

Those are the 7 question types. Along with Lesson 1, this Lesson completes the basics of a Lesson.

Scoring comments: If you are viewing this as a student, you should have seen your progress as you went through this Lesson. Just after ending the Lesson, the student will get a change to see their grade. Remember the essay will not be graded until the teacher is finished with it.

Navigation comments: Remember the introduction to this lesson. The maximum answer (attempts) is set to 1, students can retake the Lesson and the mean of all their session scores will be recorded. While most of the jumps for wrong answers are set to "This page", the setting will only record their first attempt.

This branch table is the last page in the logical order of this lesson.