E-exams with the Moodle quiz activity

1. To create a quiz, first navigate to one of your courses via the dashboard. Now turn on editing here via ” Turn editing on”.

2. Select the topic under which you want to insert the quiz and click ” Add an activity or resource” there.

3. A selection window opens in which you can select the quiz by clicking on the icon.

4. You will now reach the configuration menu of the quiz activity. To create this, you must now assign at least one freely selectable name and save the settings.

5. The activity has now been created in the course:

1. You are on the course interface, navigate to the quiz you want to configure and select it by clicking on the quiz name.

2. In the quiz overview you will find the action menu of the activity (red cogwheel) in the upper right corner. Click it and select “Edit settings“.

3.You are now back in the familiar settings screen of the quiz.

4. Below the name of the quiz you will see a description field. Here you can display organizational processes, for example.

5. In the ” Timing ” section, you can regulate the start and end of the exam time. ” Open the quiz” describes the time when the test is unlocked for the participants. Under “Close the quiz“, the end of the processing time should be defined including a time buffer of 5-10 minutes (to compensate for technical differences/loading times). Under “Time limit” you can specify the exact processing time for the exam. The grace period is also used to compensate for loading times and should be set to 5-10 minutes.

6. Under ” Grade” you will find the number of allowed attempts. If a quiz is to be repeatable, simply adjust the ” Attempts allowed” option accordingly.

7.The “Layout” regulates the display and navigation of the exam. For technical reasons, it is recommended to display only one task per page.

8.Under “Question behavior” you can regulate the evaluation of the exam. If an immediate evaluation of the tasks within the processing time is desired, the “Question behavior” option must be adjusted accordingly.

9. The “Review options” control when which evaluation criteria should be displayed. By default, all values (except ” The attempt” under “During the attempt” are deactivated). You can adjust the review options at any time and unlock viewing afterwards.

10. “Extra restrictions on access” contains the option of defining a password that will be requested when the quiz is started. Furthermore, you can activate the declaration of autonomy under “Students cognisance of plagiarism policy “. This must then be confirmed in order to start a quiz.

11. Via “Save and return to course” your settings will be saved and you will be redirected to the course view. Via “Save and display” you will be taken directly to the quiz overview.

1. Navigate to the quiz in your course and open it by simply clicking on the name. In the quiz overview you will find the action menu of the activity (red cogwheel) in the upper right corner. Click on it and select “Edit settings“. Alternatively, if the quiz is empty, you can simply click the “Edit quiz” button.

2. You are now in the empty editing screen of the quiz. You have various options for adding questions to your quiz via the “Add” button.

3. If you do not yet have a question pool on Moodle, or if a question is not yet in the question pool, you can create a new task via “Add” –>”A new question“.

For this purpose, different question types are available, which you can add and set up by selecting them.

4. If there are already questions in the question bank, you can access them directly in the quiz.

First, select the category of the question bank from which you want to add questions. The questions there are displayed and can be selected in full or in part. Once you have made your selection, the questions are added to the quiz by clicking on “Add selected questions to the quiz“.

5. It is also possible to configure the quiz with random questions from the question bank.

Here you select the category of the question bank from which random questions should be selected. In the next step you set how many random questions should be drawn from the question pool. In the lower part of the window you will get an overview of the questions that can then be randomly selected. Via “Add random question” you finalize the selection.

6. The quiz content is then displayed in edit mode as following:

7. The view of the quiz overview is displayed for you and the students as shown.

1. Go to the desired course and click on the course action menu (red cogwheel) to the right of the “Turn editing on” button. In the menu that appears, select the “Users” tab and click on the “Groups” menu item.

2. In the following window click the “Create group” button.

3. On the following page you assign a name for the group, no further settings have to be made, and close via “Save changes“.

4. You will return to the group overview and see the group you just created in the left field. In order to assign participants to the group, click on the corresponding group (it will change color) and select the button “Add/remove users” below the right field of the group overview.

5. In the following overview you can see all course participants in the right field. Here you select the desired people by clicking on them (selected entries are colored) and add them to the group via the “Add” button. Members of the group are then displayed in the left field. Saving is not necessary here.

6. Now go back to the course interface and navigate to the quiz that should get a group constraint and select it by clicking on the task name.

7. In the quiz overview you will find the action menu of the quiz in the upper right corner (red cogwheel). Click it and select “Edit settings“.

8. You are now back in the familiar settings screen of the quiz. Scroll to the “Restrict access” menu item and select “Add restriction“. In the next window, select “Group“.

9.A new condition for groups appears. In the selection list you can now define the group. In link with a start date, please make sure that the conditions are linked accordingly.

10. Save your settings.

11. The course view looks as follows under the settings made:

1. Navigate to the course and open the relevant quiz with a single click on the name.

2. In the subsequent window, click on the action menu of the test in the upper right corner (red cogwheel). In the “Quiz administration“, select the “User overrides” element.

3. In the next window, click on “Add user override” to store a disadvantage compensation.

4. You can now search for an affected person via the search field and select him/her with a click. Furthermore, you have the option here to adjust the time availabilities as well as the number of attempts individually for this affected person. End the process via “Save” or add another disadvantage compensation via “Save and enter another override“.

5. You will get an overview of all created user changes.

6. The user changes can be deposited both before the e-examination and during it. A change made during an exam can be used to grant bonus time (e.g. in the event that a candidate has a technical problem). It is important to note, however, that the subsequent adjustment is not updated for the student until he/she has requested a new quiz page.

1. You are on the course interface, navigate to the quiz you want to configure and select it by clicking on the quiz name.

2. In the quiz overview, click on the red link ” Attempts: x” or open the “Results” tab in the quiz administration and select the ” Grades” button.

3. The grading summary opens. You will now see the following list with information e.g. about the start and submission of the quiz. If question types of the answer-choice method were selected, you will directly see the automatic evaluation of these tasks. For all other tasks, the text “Requires grading” appears first, which will later be replaced by the corresponding points.

4. If you would like to take a closer look at an attempt, select “Review attempt” under the name of the corresponding student.

5. You will receive an overview of the student’s attempt including submitted solutions to the individual questions along with log data.

6. Furthermore, you can take a closer look at individual questions of an attempt by clicking directly on the evaluation of the task in the corresponding row and column or on “Requires grading“.

7. You will receive an overview of the student’s selected question along with the submitted solution and log data.

1. Navigate to the course where you want to copy a quiz/ a question bank.

2. Set the course to “Hidden” for the time of the copy process. To do this, open the course administration (red cogwheel at the top right) and select the “Edit settings” option under the “Course administration” tab.

3. Here, go to “Course Visibility” and select “Hide” from the drop-down list.

4.Back on the course overview, you will now see a banner regarding the course visibility.

5. Open the course administration again and select “Import” under the “Course administration” tab.

6. In the following window, select the source course using the search field and then select the corresponding course from the list. Go on with ” Continue “.

7. Now select what you want to import. For a quiz without a group requirement, the options “Include activities and resources” and “Include question bank” are recommended. If you only want to import the question bank, remove all check marks except for “Include question bank“. Confirm your selection with “Next“.

8. Next, you can select the activities/work materials you want to copy. Here you should select a quiz. If you import only a question bank, you can deselect everything. Via “Next” you get to the item “Confirmation and review“.

9. In the next step you will get a summary of your selection. Via the button “Perform import” the copying process is started.

10. The selected elements are now copied to the target course. If the import was successful, you will receive the following message. Confirm this with “Next“.

11. If necessary, now adjust the time settings of the quiz accordingly (see Recommended minimum settings).

12. Make the course visible again. To do this, you can follow steps 2 to 3 analogously, or click on “Settings” in the hint banner.

1. Navigate to the course from which you want to export selected question categories.

2. Open the course administration by clicking on the red cogwheel on the right side of the page and select the tab “Question bank” here. Click on the “Export” option here. A new window will open.

3. Under the menu item “File format” you specify “Moodle XML format“.

4. Under the “General” menu item, select the category you want to export.

5. If you want to take over the categorization of the questions themselves, please put a check mark in front of “Write category to file“. Otherwise, all questions will be saved in one and the same category during import.

6. Select “Export questions to file“. After a short waiting time you will finally receive an .xml file via download.

1. Navigate to the course from which you want to import selected question categories.

2. Open the course administration by clicking on the red cogwheel on the right side of the page and select the “Question bank” tab here. Click on the “Import” option here. A new window will open.

3. Under the menu item “File format” you specify “Moodle XML format“.

4. Under the “General” menu item, select the category into which the selected question categories are to be imported.

5. If you want to take over the categorization of the questions (from the import file) per se, please set a check mark in front of “Get category from file“. Otherwise, all questions of the selected category will be saved during import.

6. Choose “Stop on error” “No”.

7. Under the “Import questions from file” menu item, select your import file in .xml format and confirm by clicking “Import“.

8. You will get a summary about the import process and you can finish it by clicking the “Next” button.

9. The selected question categories including questions should now be in the question bank of the current course.

1. Navigate to the course from whose question bank you want to export individual questions.

2. Open the course administration by clicking on the red cogwheel on the right side of the page and select the tab “Question bank” here. Click on the “Questions” option here. A new window will open.

3.Select the category in which the questions you want to export are located.

4. Select the “Edit” button behind the desired question and “Export as Moodle XML” in the new context menu.

5. You will then be provided with an .xml file via download.