Quiz

We need articulate technophobes like you Claire. Actually the Quiz had some very cool improvements in usability, but I thought it was really usable before those improvements. Betware the geek

I fear that it is a mixed blessing that we have the nice clear 'Edit quiz' button when you first create a quiz.

That makes it obvious what you have to do then, but it does not teach you that what you will have to do later, to modify your quiz, is to look in the Administration block.

Probably, rather than the 'Edit quiz' button the first time, we shoud have a big red arrow pointing to 'Edit quiz' in the Admin block. However, doing that so that it works in any Moodle theme would be rather hard.

Hi, Claire. Yes, you are correct that you will need to delete your trial attempt to add or delete questions from a quiz. Once the quiz has attempts, it (Moodle) assumes that the quiz is live and that adding or deleting questions would compromise the integrity of the assessment. This is true, of course, if the attempts represent actual assessments. Like you, I often run test students through first to make sure feedback is showing up the way I want it to show up etc. I have learned to delete those attempts when I need to tweak the quiz a bit more before taking it live "for real" with actual students.

One other lesson I learned the hard way early on: it makes life easier for everyone (both you and your students) if the max points somewhat correspond with the overall weight system you have set up inside your quiz for how much you want questions to count. In other words, you will get fewer questions from students if you balance the max grade and question points areas so they equal each other for total points. My two cents, there. I didn't always do it that way if it wasn't a quiz that counted for much toward a grade (ie. it was more of a formative assessment or a pre-test). This mattered more to students when they needed to see logical math calculating their grade in one place on a summative final.

Claire,

View attempts. Click the checkbox beside the name of your student tester. Scroll to just below Overall average. Click "Delete selected attempts."

Claire, you fellow technophobe! So nice to hear I am not the only one!

In the matter of quizzes--and I still have so many problems--I find it best and safest to get the entire quiz constructed and edited to the best of my ability and then PREVIEW the quiz staying in instructor/administrator mode. You can sort most problems out this way. Changing your ID to student is also a good idea, but most of the time I try to stay out of the quiz and just "look" when I am in student mode.

Now back to my own quiz problems! ;-(

Ellen