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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
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Moodle 4 E-Learning Course Development - Fifth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle 4.0 maintains its flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use platform while adding impressive new features to enhance the user experience for student success. This updated edition addresses the opportunities that come with a major update in Moodle 4.0. You'll learn how to determine the best way to use the Moodle platform’s new features and configure your courses to align with your overall goals, vision, and even accreditation review needs. You’ll discover how to plan an effective course with the best mix of resources and engaging assessments that really show what the learner has accomplished, and also keep them engaged and interested. This book will show you how to ensure that your students enjoy their collaborations and truly learn from each other. You'll get a handle on generating reports and monitoring exactly how the courses are going and what to do to get them back on track. While doing this, you can use Moodle 4.0’s new navigation features to help keep students from getting “lost.” Finally, you'll be able to incorporate functionality boosters and accommodate the changing needs and goals of our evolving world. By the end of this Moodle book, you'll be able to build and deploy your educational program to align with learning objectives and include an entire array of course content.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting started
5
Part 2: Implementing The Curriculum
14
Part 3: Power Tools for Teachers and Administrators

Adding random questions to a quiz

You can add several random questions to your quiz. In the following screenshot, note that there are three questions in the selected category. The maximum number of questions that can be added depends on the number of questions in the category:

Figure 7.30 – Adding random questions

You can add random questions from several categories to the same quiz.

In the same attempt, students will never see the same random question twice. The questions are reset between attempts, so students can see the same question twice if they attempt the same quiz twice.

To add a random question(s), follow these steps:

  1. With the quiz selected, go to Questions.
  2. A pop-up window will be displayed; select Add random question.
  3. A dialog box will be displayed. Select the category that you want to draw the random question(s) from:

Figure 7.31 – Configuring random questions

  1. Select the...