Moodle Quizzes
An introductory guide to Moodle quizzes
OCCC Center for Learning and Teaching
59 steps
3 minutes
Mrooms3
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In Moodle, quizzes, exams, and tests are called **Quizzes**. There are a variety of settings for quizzes, including display options, question options, timing options, and many more. Begin by giving your Quiz a name and a description. You can also choose whether to display the description on the course page.
Question Bank
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Select your course.
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Click "More"
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Click "Question bank"
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Click "▼" to search through pre-existing categories.
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Navigate to the "Categories" section to add a category.
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Click "Add category"
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Add a name for the category.
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Click "Add category" when you are finished naming your category.
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For each category, you will have the options to move, edit, export, or delete the category.
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To create questions for your quiz, return to the Questions page.
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Click "Create a new question ..."
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Select the format for your question(s).
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Click "Add."
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Create a name and text for your question.
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Fill out your question, if applicable.
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If there are multiple options, you will need to indicate which response(s) are correct.
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When you are finished writing your question, click "Save changes."
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To move a question to another category, select the question you wish to move.
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Click "With selected."
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Click "Move to."
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Select the category within which you will place the question, then click "Move to" to confirm.
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The "Type to select" feature allows you to sort through your categories and filter your view of the question banks.
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Click "Edit" on an individual question to preview the question, edit the content of the question, duplicate the question, manage tags, delete the question, or review the question's history.
Timing
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**Open the Quiz** and **Close the quiz**: First, check the **Enable** boxes to activate. Then select the dates and times you want the quiz to open for your students and when to close the quiz. **Time limit**: First, check the Enable box to activate. Select the amount of time you want your students to be able to take the quiz. **When time expires**: This setting controls what happens if the student fails to submit a quiz attempt before time expires. If the student is actively working on the quiz at the time, then the countdown timer will automatically submit the attempt. If you select **There is a grace period**…then you can check the box to enable the **Submission grace period** and specify a period of time during which students may still submit the quiz after the time is up. The Quiz setup can be challenging, so please contact the CLT if you need assistance.
Grade
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**Grade category**: This setting controls the category in which this activity’s grades are placed in the Gradebook. This setting is only used if you have a Gradebook with categories. **Grade to pass** is the minimum grade a student must attain to be considered “passing” for this assignment. The “passing” status can be helpful in activity completion settings. Additionally, passing grades are green in the gradebook, and failing grades are red. **Attempts allowed**: Allows students to have multiple attempts at a quiz. **Grading method**: When multiple attempts are allowed, the following methods are available for calculating the final quiz grade: · Highest grade of all attempts · Average (mean) grade of all attempts · First attempt (all other attempts are ignored) · Last attempt (all other attempts are ignored)
Layout
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**New page**: Limiting the number of questions to a page assists students in navigating better and staying calm. The CLT recommends one question to a page. These recommended layout selections above make it harder for students to copy from each other. **Navigation Method**: By selecting **Free** instead of **Sequential**, a student can progress through the quiz and be able to return to the previous page and skip to a later one.
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**Shuffle within questions**: If enabled, the parts making up each question will be randomly shuffled each time a student attempts the quiz, provided the option is also enabled in the question settings. This setting only applies to questions that have multiple parts, such as multiple-choice or matching questions. If a multiple-choice question has “All of the above” as one of the answers, **Shuffle within questions** will not work. **How questions behave**: Deferred feedback is the recommended default. It allows students to enter an answer to each question and then submit the entire quiz before the quiz is graded or they get any feedback. Please contact the CLT if you have other Question behaviors settings you would like to discuss. **Allow redo within attempt** shows students a Redo button after attempting a question. If pressed, the students can get a different question without taking a different quiz. This option is helpful for practice quizzes. **Each attempt builds on the last**: If multiple attempts are selected, and this setting is enabled, each new quiz attempt will contain the results of the previous attempt. This allows a quiz to be completed over several attempts.
Review Options
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This section controls what information students will be shown when they review their past attempts at the quiz. The various sections of information that can be set are: **The attempt**: will show how the student responded to each question. **Whether correct**: this shows whether the students’ response to each question is correct or incorrect. **Marks**: shows the marks (grades) given to the student and the grade for the quiz. **Specific feedback**: shows the feedback for the response to the answer as set when adding the question to the quiz. Each response to a question can have feedback for correct and incorrect answers. **General feedback**: shows the general feedback for the whole question as set when adding the question to the quiz. You can use the general feedback to give students some background to what knowledge the question was testing. **Right answer**: shows the correct answer to each question. **Overall feedback**: shows feedback for the entire quiz as set in the quiz settings. For each item above, you can select when students are allowed to see them. You can set the review options to be available at different times: **During the attempt**: only available for some behaviors, like 'interactive with multiple tries,’ which may display feedback during the attempt. The default behavior is Deferred Feedback. Other behaviors are not recommended. **Immediately after the attempt**: students can see a review quiz attempt for the first two minutes after submitting. **Later, while the quiz is still open**: students can review a quiz attempt after 2 minutes and before the quiz close date. **After the quiz is closed** means after the quiz close date has passed. If the quiz does not have a close date, this state is never reached. Note: Make sure that Marks are checked under this option, or students cannot see their grades.
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**Require password**: a student must enter a specified password to attempt the quiz. **NOTE**: The enforced delay fields are optional and are only set if more than one attempt is allowed. **Enforced delay between 1st and 2nd attempts**: if enabled and a specified time is set, students will need to wait for the specified time to elapse before attempting the quiz a second time. **Enforced delay between later attempts**: if enabled and a specified time is set, students must wait for the specified time to elapse before attempting the quiz a third time and any subsequent times. **NOTE**: Do not set the access dates using the **Restrict Access** settings if you use the enable dates from the Timing settings as directed. They will prohibit the quiz grades from recording in the Gradebook.
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If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the Center for Learning and Teaching at 405-682-7838 or [clt@occc.edu](mailto:clt@occc.edu).
Preserving Quiz Integrity in Moodle
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This resources discusses the settings available in Moodle that can increase the integrity of quizzes, tests, and exams. In general, the more of these options used on a quiz, the more difficult it becomes for students to cheat or to share the questions and answers.
Quiz Activity Settings
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The following settings can be accessed on the **Settings** page of each quiz in the Course Menu your Moodle course. First, click on the quiz.
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Next, click on **Settings**.
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### Timing Options **Open and close dates**: Setting defined open and close dates can help prevent students form sharing questions and answers.
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**Time limit**: This should be set to a reasonable amount of time for the number and type of questions. Allowing too much time makes it easier for students to copy test questions and answers.
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**When time expires**: It is possible to control how quiz attempts that exceed the time limit are handled by Moodle using the **When time expires** options. The default setting, **Open attempts** **are submitted automatically**, prevents students from receiving extra time.
Grade Options
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**Attempts allowed**: Allowing only one attempt reduces the opportunity to copy quiz questions.
Layout Options
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**New Page**: Setting this option to **Every question** will show students one question per page during their quiz attempts. This makes it much more tedious to copy or take screenshots of the questions. **Navigation Method**: The **Show more** link under the layout heading will reveal the **Navigation Method** option. **Free** navigation allows students to backtrack to previously answered questions, while **Sequential** does not allow students to go back to previous questions, even if they are unanswered. Sequential is more secure, as the setting does not allow students to use the extra time to copy questions, but students may not be used to this behavior and should be notified before attempting the quiz.
Question Behavior
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**Shuffle within questions**: Setting this option to **Yes** will shuffle the order in which multiple-choice answers are displayed to students and can help to increase security. If using this option, be mindful of questions with answers such as “All of the above.” This answer can be confusing if it is not in the bottom position. “All of the above” can be replaced with answers like “All of these answers” to prevent confusion.
Review Options
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These options control what information is shown to students while reviewing their quiz attempt. To preserve the integrity of the quiz questions, it is best to leave The **Attempt** unchecked beneath each heading in this section. This will prevent students from viewing the questions and answers after their quiz has been submitted. If a student requests to review their submission, it is possible to provide this information in a secure setting, such as in-person during office hours.
Extra Restrictions on Attempts
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Additional restrictions, such as requiring students to input a password, use a secure browser, or access the quiz from a specific IP address (such as the computers in the Test Center), can be set beneath the **Extra restrictions on attempts** heading. **Browser Security:** If “Full screen pop up with some JavaScript security” is selected, the quiz will only start if the student has a JavaScript-enabled web browser. The quiz appears in a full-screen popup window that covers all the other windows and has no navigation controls. Students are prevented, as far as possible, from using facilities like copy and paste. For assistance using these options, please contact the Center for Learning and Teaching.
Quiz Setup
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The quiz setup page can be accessed by selecting **Questions** link from the Course Menu when viewing a quiz.
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This page is used to add questions to a quiz, shuffle the question order, and adjust the number of questions per page. **Adding Random Questions**: Using random questions from a large pool of questions helps retain the integrity of your question bank, as each student will receive different questions. To add random questions, select the Add option in the lower right, then select a random question.
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On the next page, you can select which category to load questions randomly from and how many questions to add from that category.
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**Shuffle**: If random questions are not being used, checking the Shuffle option will shuffle the question order of a quiz. This can make it harder for students to cheat.
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If you have questions about these options or would like to set up extra restrictions on your quizzes, please contact the Center for Learning and Teaching at 405-682-7838 or [clt@occc.edu](mailto:clt@occc.edu).
Adding a User Override to a Quiz
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The time limit, deadline, and number of attempts allowed settings on a quiz can be overridden for specific users on specific quizzes to allow for accommodations or extensions. These overrides must be entered for each quiz to which the override applies. In other words, if a user has a time limit accommodation for all exams in the course, overrides must be set up on each exam. To add time limit, deadline, and attempt accommodations to a quiz, first select the quiz’s link on the course home page.
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After the page loads, click on **More** in the Course Menu and select **Overrides** in the dropdown menu.
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On the next page, select the **Add user override** button.
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The settings below the list of names will populate with the settings already in the quiz. The deadline, time limit, or attempts allowed settings should be adjusted as desired in this area. Adjusting the settings here will override the quiz’s default settings for the selected user. The open and close times for the quiz can be overridden for the student using the **Open the quiz** and **Close the quiz** settings. The time limit can be overridden by adjusting the **Time limit** setting, and the number of attempts the selected student is allowed on the quiz can be adjusted with the **Attempts allowed** setting. **Note**: If you allow students to retake a quiz for which they already have one submission, the **Attempts allowed** setting should be set to 2 to accommodate the extra attempt. However, if you have deleted previous submission, this setting should be set to 1 to allow only one attempt.
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After adjusting the **deadline**, **time limit**, and **attempts allowed** overrides for the selected student, select the **Save** button to add the override and finish the process. If more than one student needs an override on the quiz, use **the Save and enter another override** button to save the override and enter another override for a different student on the same quiz.
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After selecting the **Save** button, you will see a list of all of the overrides which have been successfully added to the quiz.
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The overrides can be edited, duplicated, or deleted by using the respective icons in the **Action** column.
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This process should be repeated for all of the other quizzes in your course which requires user overrides. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact the CLT at 405-682-7838 or [clt@occc.edu](mailto:clt@occc.edu).
Printing a Moodle Quiz
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To print a quiz from Moodle, first, make sure each of the questions is displayed on one page. This can be done on the settings page for a quiz beneath the Layout heading. In the **New Page** menu, select **Never, all questions on one page**. Next, check the **Repaginate now** checkbox.
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Saving that change will move all of your questions onto one page. Next, start a preview of the quiz. This can be done by selecting the **Preview Quiz** button.
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When the preview begins, and the questions are visible on the screen, use your browser’s print options to print the page. For most browsers pressing ctrl + p (cmd + p on a Mac) will load the print menu. Select your printer from the menu, and print as you usually would.
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If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the Center for Learning and Teach at [clt@occc.edu](mailto:clt@occc.edu) or 405-682-7838.
Moodle Quizzes
An introductory guide to Moodle quizzes
OCCC Center for Learning and Teaching
59 steps
3 minutes
Mrooms3
1
In Moodle, quizzes, exams, and tests are called **Quizzes**. There are a variety of settings for quizzes, including display options, question options, timing options, and many more. Begin by giving your Quiz a name and a description. You can also choose whether to display the description on the course page.
Question Bank
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Select your course.
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Click "More"
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Click "Question bank"
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Click "▼" to search through pre-existing categories.
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Navigate to the "Categories" section to add a category.
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Click "Add category"
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Add a name for the category.
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Click "Add category" when you are finished naming your category.
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For each category, you will have the options to move, edit, export, or delete the category.
11
To create questions for your quiz, return to the Questions page.
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Click "Create a new question ..."
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Select the format for your question(s).
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Click "Add."
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Create a name and text for your question.
16
Fill out your question, if applicable.
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If there are multiple options, you will need to indicate which response(s) are correct.
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When you are finished writing your question, click "Save changes."
19
To move a question to another category, select the question you wish to move.
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Click "With selected."
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Click "Move to."
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Select the category within which you will place the question, then click "Move to" to confirm.
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The "Type to select" feature allows you to sort through your categories and filter your view of the question banks.
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Click "Edit" on an individual question to preview the question, edit the content of the question, duplicate the question, manage tags, delete the question, or review the question's history.
Timing
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**Open the Quiz** and **Close the quiz**: First, check the **Enable** boxes to activate. Then select the dates and times you want the quiz to open for your students and when to close the quiz. **Time limit**: First, check the Enable box to activate. Select the amount of time you want your students to be able to take the quiz. **When time expires**: This setting controls what happens if the student fails to submit a quiz attempt before time expires. If the student is actively working on the quiz at the time, then the countdown timer will automatically submit the attempt. If you select **There is a grace period**…then you can check the box to enable the **Submission grace period** and specify a period of time during which students may still submit the quiz after the time is up. The Quiz setup can be challenging, so please contact the CLT if you need assistance.
Grade
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**Grade category**: This setting controls the category in which this activity’s grades are placed in the Gradebook. This setting is only used if you have a Gradebook with categories. **Grade to pass** is the minimum grade a student must attain to be considered “passing” for this assignment. The “passing” status can be helpful in activity completion settings. Additionally, passing grades are green in the gradebook, and failing grades are red. **Attempts allowed**: Allows students to have multiple attempts at a quiz. **Grading method**: When multiple attempts are allowed, the following methods are available for calculating the final quiz grade: · Highest grade of all attempts · Average (mean) grade of all attempts · First attempt (all other attempts are ignored) · Last attempt (all other attempts are ignored)
Layout
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**New page**: Limiting the number of questions to a page assists students in navigating better and staying calm. The CLT recommends one question to a page. These recommended layout selections above make it harder for students to copy from each other. **Navigation Method**: By selecting **Free** instead of **Sequential**, a student can progress through the quiz and be able to return to the previous page and skip to a later one.
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**Shuffle within questions**: If enabled, the parts making up each question will be randomly shuffled each time a student attempts the quiz, provided the option is also enabled in the question settings. This setting only applies to questions that have multiple parts, such as multiple-choice or matching questions. If a multiple-choice question has “All of the above” as one of the answers, **Shuffle within questions** will not work. **How questions behave**: Deferred feedback is the recommended default. It allows students to enter an answer to each question and then submit the entire quiz before the quiz is graded or they get any feedback. Please contact the CLT if you have other Question behaviors settings you would like to discuss. **Allow redo within attempt** shows students a Redo button after attempting a question. If pressed, the students can get a different question without taking a different quiz. This option is helpful for practice quizzes. **Each attempt builds on the last**: If multiple attempts are selected, and this setting is enabled, each new quiz attempt will contain the results of the previous attempt. This allows a quiz to be completed over several attempts.
Review Options
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This section controls what information students will be shown when they review their past attempts at the quiz. The various sections of information that can be set are: **The attempt**: will show how the student responded to each question. **Whether correct**: this shows whether the students’ response to each question is correct or incorrect. **Marks**: shows the marks (grades) given to the student and the grade for the quiz. **Specific feedback**: shows the feedback for the response to the answer as set when adding the question to the quiz. Each response to a question can have feedback for correct and incorrect answers. **General feedback**: shows the general feedback for the whole question as set when adding the question to the quiz. You can use the general feedback to give students some background to what knowledge the question was testing. **Right answer**: shows the correct answer to each question. **Overall feedback**: shows feedback for the entire quiz as set in the quiz settings. For each item above, you can select when students are allowed to see them. You can set the review options to be available at different times: **During the attempt**: only available for some behaviors, like 'interactive with multiple tries,’ which may display feedback during the attempt. The default behavior is Deferred Feedback. Other behaviors are not recommended. **Immediately after the attempt**: students can see a review quiz attempt for the first two minutes after submitting. **Later, while the quiz is still open**: students can review a quiz attempt after 2 minutes and before the quiz close date. **After the quiz is closed** means after the quiz close date has passed. If the quiz does not have a close date, this state is never reached. Note: Make sure that Marks are checked under this option, or students cannot see their grades.
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**Require password**: a student must enter a specified password to attempt the quiz. **NOTE**: The enforced delay fields are optional and are only set if more than one attempt is allowed. **Enforced delay between 1st and 2nd attempts**: if enabled and a specified time is set, students will need to wait for the specified time to elapse before attempting the quiz a second time. **Enforced delay between later attempts**: if enabled and a specified time is set, students must wait for the specified time to elapse before attempting the quiz a third time and any subsequent times. **NOTE**: Do not set the access dates using the **Restrict Access** settings if you use the enable dates from the Timing settings as directed. They will prohibit the quiz grades from recording in the Gradebook.
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If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the Center for Learning and Teaching at 405-682-7838 or [clt@occc.edu](mailto:clt@occc.edu).
Preserving Quiz Integrity in Moodle
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This resources discusses the settings available in Moodle that can increase the integrity of quizzes, tests, and exams. In general, the more of these options used on a quiz, the more difficult it becomes for students to cheat or to share the questions and answers.
Quiz Activity Settings
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The following settings can be accessed on the **Settings** page of each quiz in the Course Menu your Moodle course. First, click on the quiz.
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Next, click on **Settings**.
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### Timing Options **Open and close dates**: Setting defined open and close dates can help prevent students form sharing questions and answers.
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**Time limit**: This should be set to a reasonable amount of time for the number and type of questions. Allowing too much time makes it easier for students to copy test questions and answers.
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**When time expires**: It is possible to control how quiz attempts that exceed the time limit are handled by Moodle using the **When time expires** options. The default setting, **Open attempts** **are submitted automatically**, prevents students from receiving extra time.
Grade Options
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**Attempts allowed**: Allowing only one attempt reduces the opportunity to copy quiz questions.
Layout Options
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**New Page**: Setting this option to **Every question** will show students one question per page during their quiz attempts. This makes it much more tedious to copy or take screenshots of the questions. **Navigation Method**: The **Show more** link under the layout heading will reveal the **Navigation Method** option. **Free** navigation allows students to backtrack to previously answered questions, while **Sequential** does not allow students to go back to previous questions, even if they are unanswered. Sequential is more secure, as the setting does not allow students to use the extra time to copy questions, but students may not be used to this behavior and should be notified before attempting the quiz.
Question Behavior
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**Shuffle within questions**: Setting this option to **Yes** will shuffle the order in which multiple-choice answers are displayed to students and can help to increase security. If using this option, be mindful of questions with answers such as “All of the above.” This answer can be confusing if it is not in the bottom position. “All of the above” can be replaced with answers like “All of these answers” to prevent confusion.
Review Options
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These options control what information is shown to students while reviewing their quiz attempt. To preserve the integrity of the quiz questions, it is best to leave The **Attempt** unchecked beneath each heading in this section. This will prevent students from viewing the questions and answers after their quiz has been submitted. If a student requests to review their submission, it is possible to provide this information in a secure setting, such as in-person during office hours.
Extra Restrictions on Attempts
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Additional restrictions, such as requiring students to input a password, use a secure browser, or access the quiz from a specific IP address (such as the computers in the Test Center), can be set beneath the **Extra restrictions on attempts** heading. **Browser Security:** If “Full screen pop up with some JavaScript security” is selected, the quiz will only start if the student has a JavaScript-enabled web browser. The quiz appears in a full-screen popup window that covers all the other windows and has no navigation controls. Students are prevented, as far as possible, from using facilities like copy and paste. For assistance using these options, please contact the Center for Learning and Teaching.
Quiz Setup
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The quiz setup page can be accessed by selecting **Questions** link from the Course Menu when viewing a quiz.
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This page is used to add questions to a quiz, shuffle the question order, and adjust the number of questions per page. **Adding Random Questions**: Using random questions from a large pool of questions helps retain the integrity of your question bank, as each student will receive different questions. To add random questions, select the Add option in the lower right, then select a random question.
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On the next page, you can select which category to load questions randomly from and how many questions to add from that category.
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**Shuffle**: If random questions are not being used, checking the Shuffle option will shuffle the question order of a quiz. This can make it harder for students to cheat.
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If you have questions about these options or would like to set up extra restrictions on your quizzes, please contact the Center for Learning and Teaching at 405-682-7838 or [clt@occc.edu](mailto:clt@occc.edu).
Adding a User Override to a Quiz
48
The time limit, deadline, and number of attempts allowed settings on a quiz can be overridden for specific users on specific quizzes to allow for accommodations or extensions. These overrides must be entered for each quiz to which the override applies. In other words, if a user has a time limit accommodation for all exams in the course, overrides must be set up on each exam. To add time limit, deadline, and attempt accommodations to a quiz, first select the quiz’s link on the course home page.
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After the page loads, click on **More** in the Course Menu and select **Overrides** in the dropdown menu.
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On the next page, select the **Add user override** button.
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The settings below the list of names will populate with the settings already in the quiz. The deadline, time limit, or attempts allowed settings should be adjusted as desired in this area. Adjusting the settings here will override the quiz’s default settings for the selected user. The open and close times for the quiz can be overridden for the student using the **Open the quiz** and **Close the quiz** settings. The time limit can be overridden by adjusting the **Time limit** setting, and the number of attempts the selected student is allowed on the quiz can be adjusted with the **Attempts allowed** setting. **Note**: If you allow students to retake a quiz for which they already have one submission, the **Attempts allowed** setting should be set to 2 to accommodate the extra attempt. However, if you have deleted previous submission, this setting should be set to 1 to allow only one attempt.
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After adjusting the **deadline**, **time limit**, and **attempts allowed** overrides for the selected student, select the **Save** button to add the override and finish the process. If more than one student needs an override on the quiz, use **the Save and enter another override** button to save the override and enter another override for a different student on the same quiz.
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After selecting the **Save** button, you will see a list of all of the overrides which have been successfully added to the quiz.
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The overrides can be edited, duplicated, or deleted by using the respective icons in the **Action** column.
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This process should be repeated for all of the other quizzes in your course which requires user overrides. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact the CLT at 405-682-7838 or [clt@occc.edu](mailto:clt@occc.edu).
Printing a Moodle Quiz
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To print a quiz from Moodle, first, make sure each of the questions is displayed on one page. This can be done on the settings page for a quiz beneath the Layout heading. In the **New Page** menu, select **Never, all questions on one page**. Next, check the **Repaginate now** checkbox.
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Saving that change will move all of your questions onto one page. Next, start a preview of the quiz. This can be done by selecting the **Preview Quiz** button.
58
When the preview begins, and the questions are visible on the screen, use your browser’s print options to print the page. For most browsers pressing ctrl + p (cmd + p on a Mac) will load the print menu. Select your printer from the menu, and print as you usually would.
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If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the Center for Learning and Teach at [clt@occc.edu](mailto:clt@occc.edu) or 405-682-7838.
