We ended the previous section thinking about how to use a Moodle quiz to monitor the success of your teaching. You can indeed use a Moodle quiz to gather this kind of data if you wish for feedback or perhaps even for a data handling exercise. For example, the Pythagorean Theorem is used by builders to ensure that each corner of a room is a right-angle. I've asked my students to measure the lengths of a room at home, and we'll check in class to see if the corner of the room is, in fact, a right-angle!
In the previous screenshot, you can see a preview of the essay question I initially used to gather that data. The main problem with using a Moodle quiz to gather data is that it isn't really the right tool for the job. The answers to the quiz questions are either right, wrong, or somewhere in between, and this doesn't apply if we simply want to gather data. So, rather than using a quiz to gather this information, I've asked my Moodle administrator to install the Feedback...