{"id":2789,"date":"2015-07-28T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2015-08-11T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T09:50:26","slug":"rapid-quiz-creation-for-moodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2015\/07\/28\/rapid-quiz-creation-for-moodle\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid quiz creation for Moodle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Online quizzes\u00a0can be used as an\u00a0effective\u00a0tool\u00a0to\u00a0help\u00a0assess\u00a0student knowledge, elicit\u00a0feedback and add\u00a0variety in\u00a0learning.\u00a0A common criticism of the quiz activity in Moodle\u00a0is that it can seem cumbersome and time-consuming. Tutors navigate and click through multiple pages, menus and boxes on forms in order to create a single question. However, for those of you that would prefer to simply type your questions into a single document to be imported into a quiz in Moodle, I offer some potential solutions.<\/p>\n

In this article, I will review three simple methods designed to speed up quiz question creation in Study Direct. \u00a0For readers who are not members of the University of Sussex, Study Direct is the name of our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) which is built on Moodle (version 1.9). The two terms may be used interchangeably throughout this post.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Word Moodle Quiz Template<\/b><\/h3>\n

The Microsoft Word Moodle Quiz Template<\/a> offers the convenience of working as an add-on to Microsoft Word. It uses macros<\/a> to allow you to create quizzes by selecting the type of question you want to use from an icon on the ribbon<\/a> (see the screenshot below) and then typing questions, answers and feedback directly into your Word document.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>This offers the ability to create the following quiz question types:<\/p>\n