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

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Create your quiz questions from the Word document template

Image Added Download the Word template file, then copy and paste the table corresponding to the question type you want to use for each question (.docx)

1. Open the downloaded template in Word. 
2. Enable editing.
3. Leave Type Category Name for now.
4. Choose the type of questions you want to create (MCQ, multi-answer, matching, short answer, essay, description, true/false, cloze, description). You can mix and match

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2. For each question you want to create copy the corresponding table, including the name. E.g. MCQ Question name (MC).
3. See How do I use it? below to understand how to complete the table for each question type.

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Install the Word Add-In and create questions that way

Follow the instructions below to download and install the plugin for your platform. Once installed it should appear in the Moodle  

>> Instructions for installing the WordTable Plugin.

1. Once installed, open Word and you should see a Moodle (or Add-Ins) tab in Word

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>> Instructions for installing the WordTable Plugin.

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2. Click the Moodle tab > New question file and save the file to your computer.
3. Delete the True/False question, unless you want to add this type of question.
4. On the Moodle tab, in the Add Questions menu, click the type of question you would like to insert and the complete the table following the instructions under How do I use it?

How do I use it?

Once you have your Word document template, or Word Add-In installed (see Before I start...) you can create your populate your Word Table document with your questions reading , ready for upload uploading into your Moodle course.

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.

Importing the Word document to Moodle

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