Posts Tagged ‘quiz’
Another Easy Quiz Creation tool (Examview) tutorial by @mguhlin
Examview is a really handy quiz creation tool that's often included with text books that provide their own test banks for your courses. I bet you didn't know that you could use those questions in your Moodle though. Miguel (@mguhlin) has outlined a handy hack that allows users to export questions from Examview into Blackboard format, then [...]
Easy Quiz Question Creation by @Moodlexml
Yulia Ivanova submitted this tip to MN and I have to say that the website tool is pretty slick. Moodle supports several easy to use quiz creation formats already (GIFT and Aiken are among my personal favorites), but the MoodleXML format is another option. Through Yulia's website you can easily create quizzes in plain, easy to read text and [...]
Moodle 2.0: new quiz features #moodle2
With the release of Moodle 2.0 beta preview, we'll be posting about the new features and changes all week. Tim Hunt of Open University led a major development effort to upgrade Moodle 2.0's quiz feature set (with help from other Moodle community members and freelance developers). You can catch a full overview of the features in this release [...]
@digidoug shows how to create Quizzes the easy way (Aiken Format)
The Aiken format is a simple way to create Multiple Choice and True/False question types in Moodle. Doug, the author "Reflections on Distributed Learning" (http://distlearn.wordpress.com/), published a quick post that highlights the process of using a simple text editor to create and format questions that can easily be imported into the Moodle [...]
Great, in depth recap of #mootuk10 by @loujak78
The following is a excerpt of a great post about the UK Moodle Moot for 2010 over at Louise Jakobsen's eLearning Blog. Visit http://loujak78.wordpress.com/ to read the full post. In the post Louise covers her first impressions, recaps of the presentations and keynotes she attended and rolling commentary that makes the post both engaging and [...]
Mr. Moodle Answers: Can I assign students to groups and make assignments conditional?
Greg, a reader, asks, Is it/will it be possible for conditional activities to be set on a per-user basis? For example, if I'm grading a rough draft of a paper, and I see a kid is confusing the different types of "there", could I log into moodle and require that he do a "there" exercise prior to submitting his final draft? and, Can I [...]
@muppetmasterUK releases a new video and book: adding multimedia to quizzes
Mark Rollins, @muppetmasteruk has released another book titled "Effective Uses of Quizzes in Moodle". The book is available at Lulu.com for download or purchase ($5.48 or $10.19, respectively): http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/effective-use-of-quizzes-in-moodle/6555670. In conjunction with the book he's also produced a handy tutorial for [...]
Moodle 2.0 April Preview by @moodlefairy
Moodle HQ is still listing April 2010 for the release of Moodle 2.0 Beta (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Roadmap#Version_2.0), so this will be a very big month for the community. In preparation for it, the number of videos and comments on the new version is growing a bit. Mary Cooch (aka the Moodlefairy) created a great 8 minute video as a primer [...]
The secret sauce to Moodle quizzes w/ @jbj
There's a great post at Profhacker.com where contributor Jason B. Jones highlights how he uses Moodle quizzes to engage his students. He goes on to discuss how it saves him time and energy but also creates more active discussions and class times with his students. If you're using the Moodle quiz (of it you're considering it's addition to your [...]
Adding a Quiz to Moodle @muppetmasteruk
Here's a cool/quick video (3:30) from @MuppetmasterUK from Screenr.com. Note that the quiz module is very flexible and there are many ways to import questions into Moodle using various formats (both closed/proprietary and open). More information about formatting files for importing questions is available at: [...]
