Choose the question type

Every question is characterized by its the question type, selectable from the list box under the text box of the question.

As shown in the figure, seven items that correspond to the type of questions (question with multiple answer, multiple choice, question with true or false answer, question with opened answer, text with omitted words, matching of words, custom question type) are available.

The content of the bottom panel of the answers depends on the selection of the question type.

Question with multiple answer (or multiple choice)

In order to indicate the exact answer of a question, it is necessary to click on the check-box labeled "Correct" placed above the answers text box to indicate the exact answer. The box will be checked.

In order to indicate that this is no more the correct answer, it will be enough to click a second time in order to make the check in the box disappear. It is possible to supply more than one exact answer.

In a multiple choice question, there is only one correct answer. Thus, if a correct answer already exists in that question, and if you try to check the check-box labeled "Correct" for a second answer, you will receive an error message.

Question with multiple answer (with points)

As a general guideline, with a (quite or very) exact answer, a student gains positive points, while with a (quite or very) wrong answer, a student gains negative points, so the final valuation of that question is the algebraic points sum of each selected answers.

In order to assign the points to an answer, click the button, near the answer text. The "answer property" dialog window will be shown as in the figure below:

True or false questions

Each question with true or false answers is based on a text (question) that precedes the list of the sentences to be marked as either true or false.

In a true or false question, the insertion of multimedia objects in the sentences is not allowed.

Question with open answer

The panel of the answers is empty in the case of questions with open answers because the answer will be supplied by the student individually during the quiz.

Gap filling exercises

Gap with a empty text box

(don't check the option "For each gap, use a list of possible items instead of a text box")

In order to indicate that a word is missing, it is necessary to enclose them by square bracket (they are [ and ]). Naturally, it is possible to omit more an entire phrase rather than single word, increasing the difficulty for the student to answer exactly.

For example:

On 4 December 1996, the space mission leaves from Cape Canaveral (in the [United States]) towards [Mars], the red planet. It comes launch the probe Mars [Pathfinder] with the space robot Sojourner Rover. The exploration of the planet was begun twenty years ago with the space probes Viking 1 and 2.

When you create the HTML quiz, you get:

The text contains three omitted words: United States, Mars and Pathfinder. Since they have been enclosed by square brackets, they will be omitted in the quiz, and an empty text box will appear for the student to complete.

There is no distinction between capital and non-capital letters. For example, if the student writes "mars" or "MARS" in place of "Mars", the answer will be considered equally valid.

Moreover, it is possible to specify more than one correct word for every word omitted in the text. This is used to obtain a less rigid automatic correction. In fact, see the previous example. It is clear that if the student answers "USA" in place of "United States" (the same for "U.S" or "States"), his answer is right but the quiz considers it an error. For this purpose, it is possible to specify between square parenthesis all the correct word alternatives, separated by a comma. In this way, the text becomes:

On 4 December 1996, the space mission leaves from Cape Canaveral (in [United States, USA, U.S, States]) towards [Mars]...

Gap with a drop-down list

(check the option "For each gap, use a list of possible items instead of a text box")

The option "For each gap, use a list of possible items instead of a text box" allows to create a quiz where each gap has a drop-down list of possible items instead of an empty text box. In this case, the student must choose one item from a finite set of items (it is easier for the student to answer a question).

In fact, only one item is the correct item, the (n-1) items are always wrong.

Syntax:

In order to indicate that a word is omitted, it is necessary to enclose it by square bracket (they are [ and ]). Within the square brackets, write a list of items (phrases or word) separated by a comma (,).

The first item is always the right answer. Obviously, in the HTML version of the quiz, the items will be placed in the list in a random order (otherwise the student would always select the first item!).

For example:

The biggest planet of Solar System is [Jupiter,Saturn,Earth,Mercury]

When you create the HTML quiz, you get (for example):

"Jupiter" is the correct item, in fact, it is the first item in the quiz editor, although "Jupiter" is not in the first position in the HTML quiz (but in a random position).

Question with matching words

The user must insert a pair of words that are in correspondence to each other but are contained in two separate lists, the first in the text box labelled "Left text", the second in the text box labelled "Right text".

In order to insert a new pair of words, press the button "up arrow" near the number of matching word.

Obviously, when the quiz will make in HTML, the pair of words will be randomly ordererd crossing each others.

For example, if you had the following pairs:

Ray Bradbury --- Fahrenheit 451
Arthur Conan Doyle --- The Lost World
Aldous Huxley --- Brave New World
Edgar Rice Burroughs --- The Gods of Mars
Mary Shelley --- Frankenstein
Bram Stoker --- Dracula
Edgar Allan Poe --- The Fall of the House of Usher

On HTML quiz you could have:

Custom questions types

Read the chapter "Custom questions types"