Grade 3 Computer Quiz

[Florentina Holcombe]

Creatinga new quiz is a two-step process. In the first step, you create the quiz activity and set its options which specify the rules for interacting with the quiz. In the second step you add questions to the quiz.This page describes the options you can set for the quiz activity. The page Building Quiz describes how to set up the questions for the quiz.

When you first set up your quiz from Add an activity or resource > Quiz, (or, if you don't have this link, the dropdown Add an activity>Quiz) you will get the following settings, (which can also be changed later in the Edit Settings link of the Quiz administration settings block) All settings may expanded by clicking the "Expand all" link top right.

Note that the quiz is open by default. In other words, if no opening and closing date is specified, i.e. if the Enable check boxes are not checked, the quiz is accessible at all times. If only an opening date is specified, the quiz is available at all times after this date. If only a closing date is specified, the quiz is available at all times until that date.

If you select "There is a grace period..." then you can check the box to enable the "Submission grace period" and specify a period of time during which learners may still submit the quiz after the time is up.

Here you can set a passing grade for the quiz. This may be connected with Activity completion and Conditional activities such that a student will not be able to access a follow up activity until they have passed the quiz.

If you have many questions that use many high definition images and the server suffers performance issues, showing only one question per page is easier on the server that showing many (or all) questions in one page.

Note: Currently, the Answers display is a bit inconsistent between different question types. For example, the matching question type shows students which of their responses are correct, but does not tell them the right answer for the ones they got wrong. The short answer and multiple choices question types do tell the student what the correct answer is.

Users with the capability 'View hidden grades' moodle/grade:viewhidden (typically teachers and administrators) are not affected by these settings and will always by able to review all information about a student's attempt at any time.

In your list of review options, you must have 'The attempt' (the first option in the lists) selected before you can enable the options to show 'Whether correct', 'Specific feedback', 'General feedback', and 'Right answer'. If you choose not to let the students review the attempt, your only options are to display 'Marks' and 'Overall feedback'.

The following JavaScript hides the questions that the students answered correctly from the review of their previous attempts. Hence, only questions that the students answered incorrectly or partially correctly are displayed.

Overall feedback is shown to a student after they have completed an attempt at the quiz. The text that is shown can depend on the grade the student got. Click "Show editing tools" to display the rich text editor, and drag the bottom right of the text box out to expand it.

Then students who score between 100% and 40% will see the "Well done" message, and those who score between 39.99% and 0% will see "Please study this week's work again". That is, the grade boundaries define ranges of grades, and each feedback string is displayed to scores within the appropriate range.

If you're getting confusing error messages about a boundary being out of sequence (when it's obviously *in* sequence), or "boundaries must be between 0% and 100%" (and they are) -- check that the Maximum Grade for this quiz is set to something greater than zero.

Dates, timing and number of allowed attempts may be changed for individual users or groups by following the links Group Overrides or User Overrides in Quiz administration. In situations where two group overrides may apply to a single user, the most lenient date is used. For "Open the quiz" dates, this means the earliest possible date is used, for "Close the quiz" dates, this means that the latest possible date is used. Note also that if there exists a user override for a student, it will always take precedence over any group overrides.

This is very useful for schools where many students in many different groups wil have to answer the same quiz at different times and students have a tendency to share quiz passwords. You can set a different password and a different time frame for the quiz for each group and thus lower (a little) the risk of students cheating.

Note: Students MUST be in the correct group for the group override to work as expected. If one student is not in the right group, or if the student is in two or more groups (e.g. the student is also in the group from the previous term), the student will not be able to use the override.

To change a quiz setting for a particular user or users, click the "add user override" button in Quiz Administration > User overrides, make the changes you wish and save or enter another override.

User overrides are very useful when you need one exception (or a few) for an activity. For example, one student will have a doctor appointment the same day all the group must sit for a summative test; you decide to give the student a chance to take the test one day before all students. Only that particular student will be able to open the quiz that day, using a quiz password that is different from the password that will be used for all the other students the following day.

This message warns you that although you have extended the "Cloze the quiz" time to 15:15 for the student, the quiz will in fact be inaccessible for him after 15:00 due to the Restrictions in the quiz settings. The only way for the student to access the quiz after 15:00 is to remove the "until" date restriction in the quiz settings or change it to "until" 15:15. (Note that there seems to be a bug that if a "from" date restriction in the quiz settings is not specified, the warning message in the override is not displayed.)

The time period settings for a quiz (such as time limit, submission grace period, autosave period and so on) can be set here with a duration of seconds, minutes, hours, days or weeks. These defaults will then be used when new quizzes are created.

Using Safe Exam Browser with the quiz module has two additional settings which may be changed by an administrator.

In Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Quiz > Safe Exam Browser templates you can add and manage templates of Safe Exam Browser settings for using in a quiz. This make sense, if you want to make it easier for teachers or if you want to restrict teachers to use Safe Exam Browser only in a specific setting.

In Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Quiz > Safe Exam Browser access rule you change general settings of the usage of Safe Exam browser like the download link for Safe Exam Browser or if Moodle is allowed to auto configure Safe Exam Browser.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE REGARDING FORM COMPATIBILITY: The Test Scoring office can only grade quizzes and tests that are filled out on the pink/raspberry Scantron form with the UCF Pegasus logo (Scantron Form No. 209161). This answer form is double sided, supports up to 100 questions, up to 4 different test versions (A, B, C, or D), and may be filled out with a pencil or with blue or black ink.

In addition to the physical paper Request form, filling out the online service request is also needed because it creates a digital record that something was placed in the drop box. Without that record, you have no proof anything was ever dropped off if your materials go missing. We have always tracked submissions with an online system in addition to the paper request forms, but in the past this step was done by the support staff, which we unfortunately no longer have full-time.

Once we have finished processing your job request, please pick up your materials as soon as possible. Although the scores are uploaded to your gradebook, you should still pick up your materials as soon as possible because any forms with errors will not have their scores uploaded until you do it manually. This is especially important after final exams, because you will need to enter those scores before grades are due. Any materials that have not been picked up before the end of Add/Drop of the following semester will be destroyed.

Our scanning machine does not print the results directly on each answer sheet, because it only does scanning. The grading is only done after all answer sheets have been scanned. We then use custom software that scores the results and pairs those scores to the forms based on the ID NUMBER that the students have bubbled in. If that number is missing or does not match a student record enrolled in that class, then the scores are matched to the form serial number instead.

If you have submitted a job and have not received any notifications within two business days, please check your online gradebook. If the scores are there, your request is complete and your materials are ready to be picked up. If the scores are not there, please contact the Test Scoring Office by email at test...@ucf.edu or call 407-823-5493 for assistance.

To develop the scoring system, the TEA gathered 3,000 responses that went through two rounds of human scoring. From this field sample, the automated scoring engine learns the characteristics of responses, and it is programmed to assign the same scores a human would have given.

Representatives from TEA first mentioned interest in automated scoring in testimony to the Texas House Public Education Committee in August 2022. In the fall of 2023, the agency announced the move to hybrid scoring at a conference and during test coordinator training before releasing details of the process in December.

The STAAR test results are a key part of the accountability system TEA uses to grade school districts and individual campuses on an A-F scale. Students take the test every year from third grade through high school. When campuses within a district are underperforming on the test, state law allows the Texas education commissioner to intervene.

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