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Category – this is fed from the Categories tab. Categories are the main way Moodle organizes questions within a question bank. Enter your category here, and use the pull down arrow in the Question Bank tab to choose the category you want to place the question in. If you specify a category, all subsequent rows will fit into that category until a new one is entered. Upon adding your questions to Moodle, if the category does not yet exist, it will be created automatically.
Forward slash ( / ) can be used in the category column to specify sub-categories
Type – this is fed from the hidden QuestionTypes tab and is pre-populated with the question types (QB)2 supports. These are the types of questions from which you can choose.
The type of question chosen will automatically change the Value/Group/Answer format for that question
Question/Description – the actual question the student responds to.
Value/Group/Answer – This is a multipurpose field.
Upon adding question to Moodle, the answer choices will be randomized by default.
Currently accommodates up to 6 responses. Format of this field will change (drop down or free text) depending on the question type selected.
Value is the percentage (fraction) of points that the response will earn.
If you desire to give partial credit for an answer, the fraction column to the right of the answer can be adjusted accordingly.
Example: 100 = full credit, 50 = half credit, 0 = none. These are tied directly to the answer to the left of each fraction column.
Group allows for answer option groupings, for question types like dragdrop and missingwords.
Answer is mainly used for matching question type where the correct answer is set
Questions can be sorted by any of these fields alphabetically by rightclicking the top of the column (for Questions/Description, column C) and clicking either Sort sheet A → Z or Sort sheet Z → A (pictured below).
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Question Types
Multiple Choice:
One answer should be the correct one; set value to 100.
The rest of the answers can be set to 0 or partial values such as 25 or 50 depending on if you want to allow partial credit for some answers.
Short Answer:
One answer should be the correct one; set value to 100.
The rest of the answers can be set to 0 or partial values such as 25 or 50 depending on if you want to allow partial credit for wrong answers.
True / False:
Only answer options should be TRUE and FALSE
One fraction has to be set to 100 and the other 0
Ordering:
Place answers in correct order
Value/Group/Answers do not need to be set for any answer
Default grading of answers is set to Absolute Position
PoodLL Recording:
Value/Group/Answers do not need to be set
Essay:
Value/Group/Answers do not need to be set
Matching:
The correct matching answer option needs to be set in each Value/Group/Answer field to the right of each Answer column
Drag & Drop into Text:
Groups of answer choices need to be set for each blank in the Question/Description, associated with a number. (Ex: For every [[1]] there’s a [[2]].)
The first answer per Group to appear from left to right will be considered the correct answer
Missing Words:
Groups of answer choices need to be set for each blank in the question, associated with a number. See previous for example of Question/Description format.
The first answer per Group to appear from left to right will be considered the correct answer
Cloze:
Question and answers are to be written in the Question/Description column.
Answers are indicated between 2 carets (^) or double square brackets ([[ and ]]).
Multichoice: write out the options separated by a comma, the first listed is the correct answer (ex: Phoenix: ^Arizona, California^ Sacramento [[California, Arizona]] )
Shortanswer: write out the answer between the two carets (^) or double square brackets ([[ and ]]). This is not case sensitive (ex: the capital of France is ^Paris^ and the capital of Germany is [[Berlin]].)
Value/Group/Answers do not need to be set
Description:
Value/Group/Answers do not need to be set
Multiple Answer
Used similarly to multiple choice but, At least one answer needs to be correct, and the total point values of all the correct answers need to add up to 100
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