Quizzes in various educational contexts.

Moodle quiz provides you with a myriad of opportunities of how you can use quizzes to support your teaching both before and after the classes – Some examples:

• Polls
  Surveys serve the purpose of getting a feel for the students. For this purpose, you can use the quizzes as a means to prepare for the class, if you ask the students to fill out the quiz before the class, or even before the semester starts. When doing this you gain insight into what level the students are at, in relation to the curriculum. From this you can plan your classes, so you accommodate the students’ needs.
• The icebreaker
  You can use the quiz as an icebreaker at the start of a semester or a class. The quiz can be fairly easy, and the students have to participate in groups. Thereby the students are introduced to discussing with one another in a way that does not expose too many of their academic shortcomings. You can also use the quiz to provide a break in the constant flow of information that occurs when they are in class. This also serves the purpose of gaining insight into how much of the material the students have understood. If you are teaching online and using videos to do so, Moodle Quiz provides you with the opportunity to incorporate the quizzes as a part of the videos.  
• Self-evaluation
  Moodle Quiz provides you with the opportunity to make a quiz that functions as a self-evaluation tool for the students. Through this you can provide the students with the opportunity to revise their knowledge of the curriculum on their own. This also serves them with information regarding where they a lacking concerning their own knowledge and what information they are well versed in.  
• Evaluation tool
  Quizzes can be used to rethink the way you normally evaluate your students. Moodle Quiz has many functions which would enable you to use it as an evaluation tool.

Quizzes as an exam form

Quizzes, at the core, are a form of test and therefore it makes sense to consider them as an exam form. When using Moodle Quiz, you can make the questions in various different ways that make it relevant to use for exams. You can have essay questions, calculation questions, match questions and answers both in the form of words, pictures and videos. You can also make true/false questions or do the classical multiple-choice variation. Thereby Moodle Quiz can be used in various exam situations, depending on what kind of exam you wish to create. If you want to read more about what types of questions you can ask in the quizzes, you can read more about it here.

Real life examples

CDUL conducted a workshop concerning the use of Moodle quiz, where several educators shared their experiences. During this workshop it was pointed out that some had good experiences with using Moodle quiz as an exam form as well as a self-evaluation tool for the students. One of the educators shared their experience of using Moodle Quiz as a sort of assistant teacher. In this instance, the educator had made a quiz based on the most typical problems the students often encountered during the teachings. In the quiz, he had incorporated feedback which served as a help for the students to understand the things they were finding difficult.

How to get started 

Do you want to incorporate Moodle quiz in your teaching but do not know how to get started? Then you can use the guide on Moodles quiz function on this page and you can find the page on Moodle as a Learning Technology here. Furthermore, our digital learning consultants Rune Gram Hagel Jensen and Jonas Svenstrup Sterregaard have hosted workshops about using Moodle Quiz, and you can contact them directly here.