How To Make Online Quizzes In Moodle
Method 1: Create Simple Quizzes with Quiz Module in Moodle
Fortunately, Moodle already has a Quiz module allowing the instructors to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types in the easiest way.
Step 1: Create the quiz activity and set options to interact with the quiz.
1. Ensure your role in Moodle is switched to Course creator, Teacher or other editing roles;
2. Within the course you enrolled, click "Turn editing on" on the Administration panel;
3. On the exact week in outline, click "Add an activity" and select "Quiz" in the drop-down list;
4. Specify the Quiz options such as Name, Timing, Display & Attempts, and save.
Step 2: Edit the quiz and add specified questions from various question types.
1. In the created quiz, click "Edit" on the top navigation bar to edit the quiz detail;
2. Switch to the "Questions" section on second-level navigation;
3. In the "Question Bank" go to "Create new question" and choose the types you like.
As the easiest way to create quizzes in Moodle quickly, Quiz module offers fundamental and flexible features to meet the practical requirements. Therefore, it may not support some advanced applications such as importing audio, customizing background or collecting results.
Make Rich-Media Quizzes with SCORM/AICC Module in Moodle
Besides the simple quizzes making, some instructors may need to build the assessments with multimedia, as well as results tracking and reporting. Upon these requirements, Flash quiz is the perfect solution with multimedia authoring. With SCORM/AICC module in Moodle which allows you to upload any standard SCORM package, you can easily create and incorporate a SCROM compliant Flash quiz in your course.
Step 1: Make Flash-based quizzes with SCORM compliance.
- Make Flash quiz with some assessment tool, such as Wondershare QuizCreator;
- Create questions in different question type, like true or false, multiple choices, short essay, click map, matching and sequence;
- Use Excel template in QuizCreator to deign a Excel-based quiz and then import;
- Publish the quiz for LMS as specified SCORM compliant package.
Step 2: Add Flash quiz as SCORM compliant content into the course.
1. Go to Moodle and select a course, go to Add an activity and select SCORM/AICC
2. Type the course name and summary, go to the "package File" and click on Browse to select the SCORM compliant quiz package and upload it.
Finally, as you can see in the course contents as Student role, and the results report as Teacher role, the SCROM compliant Flash quiz can work well with and report results to Moodle. It greatly enhances the quiz with rich media and interactivity to help the learning process.
