Multiple Choice - Penalty for wrong answers

Multiple Choice - Penalty for wrong answers

by G Ganesh Kumar -
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Hai Moodle Team,

I am new to Moodle and I am using Moodle 2.5

I am trying the grading method for multiple choice questions. Based on the students point of view, If answer is not known clearly they simple answer any one of the four option given.  To avoid that, I want to implement negative marks for wrong answers.  Either the question may in True/False mode or Multiple Choice Mode.

Hoping that this will make students to read the questions properly.  Your suggestion will help us configure moodle successfully in our college and will engage moodle for all branches in our college.

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Re: Multiple Choice - Penalty for wrong answers

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Hello,

Rather than giving "negative marks", to encourage students to think before answering questions you might use the Certainty Based Marking feature of the Quiz. See the documentation here and especially the link at the bottom of that page.

Joseph

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Re: Multiple Choice - Penalty for wrong answers

by Tim Hunt -
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You can do that.

When you create the questions, set a negative grade for each wrong answer.

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Re: Multiple Choice - Penalty for wrong answers

by G Ganesh Kumar -

I checked that. But the negative grade is not applied to the students.

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Re: Multiple Choice - Penalty for wrong answers

by Tim Hunt -
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In the quiz settings, what is 'How questions behave set to'?

Preview a question, and try various different values for that settings to see what happens.

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