Keywords: assessment, feedback, grading, marking, plagiarism, referencing, reference.
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.
All the main question types except Calculated questions are supported. That means you can import the following:
- Matching: Match Match 4 or more words or phrases. No feedback is included.
- Multiple-Choice: Choose Choose the 1 correct answer from 4 or more possible answers. Specific feedback can be added for each answer.
- Multiple-Answer: Choose Choose 1 or more correct answers from 4 or more possible answers. Specific feedback can be added for each answer.
- Short Answer: Free Free text answer. Specific feedback can be added for each possible answer.
- Description: Not Not a question, just a facility to add some text, usually instructions for a set of following questions.
- Essay: An An essay question allows the entry of free text, which is not graded.
- True/False: Choose Choose whether a statement is true or false. Specific feedback can be added for each answer - NOTE: these are usually best avoided as they are easy to guess.
- Cloze: Fill-in-the-blanks or Embedded answers question. Use bold to enter Multichoice items, italic to enter Short Answer items, and underline to enter Numerical items.
Creating your quiz questions in a Word document
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Why use it?
Creating quiz questions using the Moodle interface can be time consuming. The Word Table format is a quicker way to create quiz questions, providing you don't want to use more advanced types such as calculated questions or drag and drop.
Who can use it?
- Staff can use this to upload questions more quickly into a Moodle course
Before I start...
You can either use this the Word template file* *and file and copy and paste the corresponding tables for how ever many the types questions you want to create or,
install a plugin for Word (see below) to allow you to create new quizzes and add new questions into a Word table by clicking on buttons within the Word Add-Ins tab.
Creating your quiz questions in a Word document
Download the Word template file, then copy and paste the table corresponding to the question type you want to use for each question. You can mix and match question types.
Download the Word template file (.docx)
Installing the Word Add-In
Follow the instructions below to download download and install the plugin for your platform. Once Once installed it should appear in the Moodle or Add-Ins tab in Word.
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Instructions for installing the WordTable Plugin!
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How do I use it?
Once you have created your Word document template, or Word Add-In installed (see Before I start...) you can create your Word Table document with your questions and are ready to upload them to Moodle...reading for upload into your Moodle course.
Importing the Word document to Moodle
- Navigate to your Moodle course
- In the the Settings menu menu, click click Question Bank.
- In the the Settings menu menu, click click Import.
- Select Select Microsoft Word table format (wordtable)
- Choose the category you would like to import questions in to. You can leave this as the default if you like.
- If you keep 'Get category from file' selected selected, Moodle will create categories based on those in the Word file you upload.
- Drag your Word document to the import file area, or click click Choose a file... > > Upload a file and and Choose File, then select it from your computer and click click Open and and Upload this file.
- Click Import.Click Import.
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