Working with questions and questionbanks
Clear and structured organisation of questions allows not only fast access to your questionbank for yourself but sharing with your colleagues and as well as effective reusing for many years.
Questionbanking also allows generation of automatic, balanced, and different exam, containing different types of questions, covering the entire curriculum, and displaying gradually from easiness to difficulty.
We recommend:
- Use Topics with clear and meaningful naming to group your question together
- Use Metatags to mark difficulty level, retire questions or any other criteria
- Consider using different question types for your assessment
When used to their full potential, the question types available in QMP provide a powerful range of assessment techniques that you can use to test a full range of cognitive skills, including:
- Factual recall
- Comprehension
- Application
- Analysis
- Synthesis
- Evaluation
These question types can also be used to collect survey information or construct rating scales.
Things you might do when creating your questions or topics:
- Read the descriptions for all the question types available in Authoring to gain background knowledge of your options in developing assessments from topics.
- Select question types based on the format that best matches what you want to assess.
For example, If you want to measure skills or content, then you would select from the question types which test designers loosely categorize as closed-ended or open-ended based on whether or not the answer appears before the participant. The types of question and their descriptions are listed below:
- Closed-ended questions are often used when you are looking for a response that would have a predictable correct answer. The most commonly-used closed-ended question types are shown below.
- Open-ended questions are used when you are gathering information or looking for a response that is not easily classified as right or wrong. The most commonly-used open-ended question types are shown below.
- Use a question format that is as close to the real-world application as possible. This way questions are more easily-related to the actual application of the knowledge.
- Limit the number of question types you place on a test, it will also be less confusing to the participant if you group like question types together. For ease of scoring, quality of feedback options, and control in guessing, the Multiple Choice question type is usually the best starting point for constructing an assessment.
- If you want to assess opinions, attitudes, or create a rating scale, the use Likert scale question type.
Closed-ended question types
Closed-ended questions that appear in Authoring include:
- True/False
- Yes/No
- Multiple Response
- Multiple Choice
- Likert scale questions
- Pull-down questions
- Numeric
Open-ended question types
Authoring includes the following open-ended question types:
- Text Match
- Numeric
- Essay
- Explanation
- Matching
Contents
- Introduction to managing course participants
- Make your course visible to students
- Enrolment methods and managing access permissions
- Enrol participants using Warwick auto-enrolment
- Manually enrol participants onto a Moodle space
- Roles and their functions in Moodle
- Groups and groupings
- Enable activity completion
- Mark activity completion manually
- Track activity completion
- Course completion
- Course participation
- Introduction to assessment and feedback
- Create a fail / pass scale
- Create a custom certificate
- Create and manage badges
- Reports, logs and completion data in Moodle
- Create an assignment
- Create an assignment for group submission
- Set up Turnitin within an assignment
- Create and grade a submission using a rubric
- Use a marking workflow for assignments
- Blind marking
- Allocate markers to specific submissions
- Provide grades and feedback for individual assignments
- Check the status of submissions
- Hide or show grades and feedback
- Introduction to eStream
- Access your eStream content
- Uploading videos to eStream
- Edit videos in eStream
- Edit video thumbnail
- Uploading a closed captions (subtitles) file to eStream
- Add eStream videos to Mahara
- Sharing eStream videos to Moodle
- Sharing an eStream video with a link
- Setup a video assignment in Moodle