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If the exam focuses on information recall and simple calculations
- Recommended approach: A multiple-choice quiz set up through the Moodle’s Quiz Activity. Questions appear in a random order for students.
- Suitable for: Knowledge and information recall. Basic calculations, or simple solutions to problems.
- How to:
- Create exam in Moodle quiz using multiple- choice or calculated simple or multiple- choice questions.
- Randomize question order and answer order.
- Distribute through a Moodle’s Quiz Activity, available at a specific date and time.
- Submission through the Moodle quiz.
- Create exam in Moodle quiz using multiple- choice or calculated simple or multiple- choice questions.
If the exam involves a mixture of knowledge recall, simple calculations, as well as solving scoped problems
- Recommended approach: Create an open-book exam paper where one question is released at a time for students to complete before moving onto the next.
- Suitable for: Scoped problems where there are right answers to be found.
- How to:
- Write the exam in a word/pdf format, separating out each question for separate release.
- Distribute through a Moodle’s Assignment Activity, with different questions available at different times on a specific date
- Submission through Moodle Assignment Activity, with specific due date/time, with each questions submitted separated. Submission could be photos or word documents.
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- A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.
If the exam focuses on solving scoped problems where the right answer had to be found
- Recommended approach: Create an open-book exam released to all students at the same time, but different groups of students receive either different questions or different numbers in the questions.
- Suitable for: Scoped problems and procedural questions. Can ask questionswhere there is a right answer to be found.
- How to:
- Create 2-3 different “versions” of exams in a Word/PDF format
- Distribute to students using Moodle’s Assignment Activity. Each version of exam is assigned to a group of students, available at a specific date/time.
- Submission through Moodle at a specific date and time. Submission could be photos of the student’s worked solutions or a word document.
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- A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.
If the exam focuses on solving scoped problems that do not involve finding the right answer
- Recommended approach: Create an open-book exam released to all students at the same time.
- Suitable for:Scoped problems and in some cases procedural questions.
- How to:
- Write the exam in a word/pdf format.
- Distribute to students using Moodle’s Assignment Activity, made available to students at a specific date/time.
- Submission through Moodle at a specific date and time. Submission could be photos of the student’s worked solutions or a word document.
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- A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.
If the exam focuses on procedural approaches
- Recommended approach:A standard open-book exam where questions are delivered through a Moodle quiz and students upload photos of their working.
- Suitable for:Problems that are longer or more complex, where procedural approaches are being tested.
- How to:
- Create exam in Moodle quiz using the Essay type, that allows the uploading of files (pictures of student working).
- Distribute through a Moodle quiz, available at a specific date and time.
- Submission through the Moodle quiz through uploading photos.
If the exam focuses on real world problems
- Recommended approach: Create an open-book exam that students can complete in their own time, usually over a few days
- Suitable for: Real-world and open- ended problems that require higher-order thinking skills.
- How to:
- Write the exam in a word/pdf format
- Distribute through a Moodle’s Assignment Activity, available at a specific date and time.
- Students will submit through Moodle at a specific date and time. Submission could be photos of the student’s working or a word document.
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- A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.
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