Saturday, November 5, 2011

Adding Multiple Choice Questions to Moodle


It's very challenging to get students to do large numbers of muliple choice questions as homework without having them cheat. Well, soon I'll have almost 100 questions per chapter and Moodle will randomize the questions and randomize the answers! It will be very challenging for students to simply write down the answers or the first few words of the answers for that many questions. So, I'm looking forward to seeing how it works in the real classroom.

If you use Examview, you can import your tests into Moodle. I could sit here and explain it but here is a video that says exactly how to do it. One thing the video didn't mention is you need to use Examview 6. If you use an older or a newer version I can't promise you anything. I tried using Examview 3.5 and it did NOT work. All I can tell you is I did exactly what the video said with Examview 6 and it is working for me.