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Keywords: assessment, quiz, question, automated feedback, automated  grading, automated  marking, interactive, formative, summative

What is it?

The Word Table format lets you create Moodle quiz questions, including comprehensive feedback and grades in Word tables, then upload them to Moodle. This can save you time.

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1. Replace Type Category Name with the name of the Moodle quiz category you want to create for these questions to sit within.
2. For each question replace the following:
   1. Replace 'MCQ Question name' - with the name of the question (only editors will see this). Leave the two letter code that is in brackets as this tells Moodle what type of question it is.
   2. Type the question in the top box. 
      • For Cloze questions, bold any text you want to add as a drop-down list and italicise any text you want to appear as a blank space for students to enter the correct word.
      • Include any LaTeX in double question marks ($$).
      • Add any images you wish to add.
        • Make sure you refer to them in the question, so if they don't load properly the student knows they are missing information.
        • Remember to add alt text for visually impaired people using screen-readers (providing this doesn't give the answer away). 
          • Right click the image > Format picture... Click the Layout & Properties menu (3rd button) > Enter a succinct, descriptive title (required) and a longer description (optional).
        • If images have been cropped or resized, click on the image, go to the Format tab and choose Compress Pictures > All pictures in document > OK.
   3. Fill in the relevant questions, answers and feedback for the question type:
      1. MCQ: Enter the Answers, feedback and make sure the correct answer has a grade of 100.
      2. Multi-answer: Enter the Answers, feedback and give each correct answer a grade, so they all add up to 100.
      3. Matching: Type the question under Item and the matching answer under Match.
      4. Short-answer: Enter all the possible correct short answers under right answer and add feedback alongside each.
      5. Essay: Enter the response to the student under Response template. 'Information for graders' will only be seen by tutors.
      6. Cloze: Enter any distractors to populate the drop-down lists in the question text (which you indicate with bold text in the question).
      7. Description: Doesn't require any feedback or grades, as this is just for adding instructions.
      8. All-or-nothing multiple choice: 
      9. Missing word: 
   4. Provide simple feedback for overall correct and incorrect answers.
   5. Provide detailed general feedback. All students will see this regardless of whether they got the answer correct or not.

   6. Please make sure that for the grade, the correct answers sum to exactly 100 %.

Importing the Word document to Moodle

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1) If you receive the error: ' The type of the file you selected (application/msword) does not match the type expected by this import format (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document).'   Please ensure the Microsoft Word file you are trying to import is of type .docx (and not .doc)  If you are using a .doc file select Save As, and select file type Microsoft Word (*.docx) from the Save As drop down list.  Once you have saved the file as type .docx please try again to import the file to your Moodle quiz.

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