Don Hinkelman and myself have been working on a new quiz question type called 'Content Choice.'
We think we've got the main bugs worked out for Moodle 1.6 and 1.7. It can be downloaded here: http://englishforum.sgu.ac.jp/downloads/
The content choice question type is used when answers are included as part of a sentence or passage of text found within the question. One common use of the question type would be:
Which of the following would need to be changed to make this sentence correct?
The quickly brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
a) quickly
b) jumped
c) over
d) the lazy dog
This is very common question type on TOEIC and TOEFL exams (actually I've heard the new TOEIC is going away from this question type). However, many other uses are possible and are only limited by the teacher’s creativity. For example, a teacher could include a paragraph and instruct the student to find the topic sentence. (Please share your ideas for using this type of question, too!)
It should be noted that this type of question could be made with the multiple choice question type. However, the advantage of this question type is that it offers the teacher input techniques that can save valuable time.
Here is a screenshot from the preview:
The content choice question type is found in the list of question types.
Creating questions for this question type takes two steps. 1) Question Input and 2) Feedback Input
1) Question Input
In the Question Field, put [ ] around any sections of text that are INCORRECT choices and { } around the CORRECT choice. One set of { } and a minimum of one set of [ ] must be included. For example:
The {quickly} brown fox [jumped] [over] [the lazy dog].
The computer will automatically set the answers based on these tags. The teacher can also add a default response for incorrect feedback.
Clicking the "Save Question Changes" button only affects the content above the save button.
2) Feedback Input
After the Question changes have been input and saved, the teacher can modify the feedback of the choices as well as the Grade assigned. The answers can NOT be modified here - only in the Question area.
There are two Save buttons for this section. Clicking "Save Feedback changes" saves the feedback data and returns back to the main quiz edit page. Clicking "Save Feedback changes and return" saves the feedback data and returns back to the same question edit page.
Clicking either of the two Feedback buttons does not change any question data.
About the end result
*Any section surrounded by [ ] or { } will automatically be underlined.
*The answers will be presented to the user in order they are found in the question.
And if you want to try it, use teacher/teacher as the username/password
It may take a little playing around to get the hang of it, but once the process of question creation is down things can move pretty fast!
We welcome any suggestions, problems, etc....
Andy
