Moodle+Quizzes


 * Moodle Quizzes as 'Practice Quizzes'**

I use moodle for a bunch of things with various degrees of success, but something that has seemed particularly helpful for students and DI supporting is making practice quizzes available.

The practice quizzes can be set up to shuffle randomly through labeled question banks that students can take multiple times, identify difficulties and address them without any 'bad grade' consequence. So, for each unit, I try to set up a practice quiz that shuffles through the questions of the book's corresponding unit. Often, one may want to reserve items from the test bank for an assessment so if departments have a stash of these textbook materials from older/previously used text books, one could harvest questions from those! It's nice not to have to generate/input loads of questions and gives the students an opportunity to take ownership of their learning.

Some text books have large question banks that are computerized and organized in programs like ExamView, Diploma etc. Though it is cumbersome to construct the question bank from scratch and some of these programs are difficult from which to get the questions into the moodle test bank (I can possibly help with this too), once they're in, and providing you don't mind having the questions available to the students before the assessment, you can set up practice quizzes. Additionally, I've been able to find some question banks available for download on-line formatted for moodle, which makes importing a large question bank take just a few moments.

If you're interested in seeing some examples of practice quizzes or have any questions, don't hesitate to drop me a line at agoren@shipleyschool.org and I can get you access to the class moodle pages where they're posted.