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Quiz questions can be made available to students outside of a quiz activity directly within Moodle content such as a page, book or lesson activity which enables them to be used as a tool for formative assessment. Your students will see the question feedback and you can review all student attempts using the reports.

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Tutors and course administrators can create questions in the questions Moodle question bank then embed them into their Moodle content.

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  1. Navigate to your Moodle course and select Question bank within the Administration block.
  2. Click onto the Categories tab.
  3. You will then see the name of your Moodle course and a list of all question bank categories for that course, click the Settings cog for the category you wish to edit.
  4. In the ID number box, enter a unique ID number for the question bank category you're editing.
    1. We recommend using a consistent format based off of the course code. For example CODEXXXX-01 which can then be incremented for any additional question bank categories you wish to assign an ID number to.
  5. Press Save changes and edit any additional categories if required.

An example question bank category with an ID number assigned to it

Setting an ID Number for Quiz Questions

  1. Navigate to your Moodle course and select Question bank within the Administration block.
  2. Use the Select a category dropdown to select the category containing questions you wish to ID.
  3. Find the question you wish to add an ID number to, open the Edit dropdown and press Edit question.
  4. In the ID Number box, enter a unique ID number for the question being edited.
    1. We recommend using a consistent format based off of the course code and question bank category ID. For example, if the category ID number is CODEXXXX-01, the question ID number is CODEXXXX-01-01 which you can increment for additional questions that are assigned an ID.
  5. Press Save changes and edit any additional questions if required.

An example of some questions with ID numbers assigned to them

Embedding a Quiz Question

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  1. Navigate to your Moodle and Turn editing on.
  2. Edit or create the activity you wish to embed a quiz question into.
  3. In the Atto text editor, click the Embed Questions button (highlighted in the above image).
  4. Select the question bank category from the Question category dropdown.
  5. Select the question from the Question dropdown.
  6. Attempt options and Display options can be left on their default settings.
  7. Press Embed and then Save and display at the bottom of the page.

The configurable settings for embedded question questions

Reporting on Student Question Attempts

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  1. Navigate to your Moodle course.
  2. Expand the Reports dropdown in the Administration block.
  3. Click on Embedded Questions Progress.
  4. Optional: You can filter the report and download the displayed data as a CSV.
    1. Date filter allows you to look back a fixed number of days or filter between certain dates.
    2. First name and Surname allow the list of students to be filtered by the starting letter of their first names or surnames.

An example report for embedded question attempts at course level

To view the report at an activity level, please follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to your Moodle course and open an activity with an embedded question.
  2. Click Embedded questions progress in the Administration block.
  3. Optional: You can filter the report and download the displayed data as a CSV.
    1. Date filter allows you to look back a fixed number of days or filter between certain dates.
    2. First name and Surname allow the list of students to be filtered by the starting letter of their first names or surnames.

An example report for embedded question attempts at activity level

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