Moodle 3.5
Hi,
How long should it take to create a Quiz of 100 multi choice questions? Any estimates with question banks added etc would be much appreciated
I am presuming including creating the questions too. Probably a couple of hours...
Creating 100 multiple choice questions, given that the questions are being conceived and created from scratch, and typing each one individually, I would say 10-20 hours.
If the questions are already in electronic format and you can do copy/paste, maybe 6 hours.
If the questions are in a format that can be imported into Moodle, maybe 5 minutes at most per question bank. Of course, this is my preferred method. Most good textbooks and publishers will supply a test bank that can be imported into Moodle.
Double-checking questions, even imported questions, might take 30-60 minutes depending on the quality of the source questions. This includes creating a Moodle question category and moving the category and questions into proper position.
To create a quiz with 100 randomly selected questions (for students), I would say less than 5 minutes.
It depends partly on the subject and how good you expect the questions to be, and do you have some material to start with.
I created about 120 mock exam questions back in 1999 and it was a year or more before I stopped getting accurate bug reports.
Yep, Marcus, I totally agree with you.
Even question banks from publishers have errors in them. I tell my students that if they find any error and report it to me, they get a bonus point. Of course, I immediately fix the error.
Yes, it can take several years before students stop reporting problems. I sometimes surprises me when a student catches an error in a question bank that I have been using for five years.
Thanks everyone, have the format have the questions (able to copy and paste). have a bone idle LMS admin (I don't know Moodle) who is telling me it will take weeks. i knew that not to be the case.
Being able to copy and paste existing questions changes the parameters hugely. If you get any problems do post here again.
Doug, I sense that your LMS admin was giving you the standard reply.
However, you can prove this on your own. Get a free MoodleCloud account, create a course, then go to the question bank and time how long it takes you to create 10 questions. Then apply this sample to your bigger needs.
But of course, you run the risk of your LMS admin saying "If it took you only 30 minutes to create 10 questions, then you finish the job."
It was much more than a year actually, more like two or three. I used to get responses that made me slap my forehead and say "how could you possibly think the question meant that!", then I would realise that it was a reasonable interpretation and I needed to clarify and remove ambiguity. It would be nice if the idea behind this question behaviour
https://moodle.org/plugins/qbehaviour_deferredfeedbackexplain
Could be adapted for the interactive behaviour.
So much software, so little time.