Building a quiz that grades by category

Building a quiz that grades by category

by Mark Hardwick -
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Does any of the newer versions of Moodle allow you to build a quiz that can be graded by category?  I would like to have a quiz with 50 questions (or some other number) that has 4-5 categories so I know what topics a student needs the most help in.

I know on previous versions of Moodle this cannot be done and I know it's been talked about many times, but It's been a while since I checked on this.

If it's not available, is there a work-a-round that could get the same results? 

We are currently on 2.6+ 

Also, what is the latest version of Moodle that I should consider going to to stay current?

 

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Re: Building a quiz that grades by category

by Mary Cooch -
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No, you can't grade quizzes by category. However the latest version of Moodle which is Moodle 2.9 allows you to display different sections in your quiz - see the Section headings part of the documentation Building Quiz and that would let you divide up into categories of a sort but you'd still have to look manually at their results.

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Re: Building a quiz that grades by category

by Mark Sheppard -

Mary:

Does that category restriction apply to the Quiz activity as a whole? e.g. you cannot assign a category to it?

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Re: Building a quiz that grades by category

by Mary Cooch -
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I don't quite know what you mean Mark.

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Re: Building a quiz that grades by category

by Mark Hardwick -

Thanks for the input and conformation about Moodle not being able to do it in it's basic form. That's not what I was wanting to hear but that's what it is. 

I'll look into the plugins and get some more info on those.  I have never personally added a plugin but my web host is good with that sort of thing.  

If anyone has used either of those plugins and likes them please let me know. 

Thanks,

Mark  

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