The exercises tool
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This tool allows you to create online exercises composed of a list of questions. The questions can be of different kinds :
- multiple choice
- true/false
- fill in blanks
- matching.
An exercise is then a list of questions from different types but that refer to the same subject or the same chapter of the course. Students can fill in the exercises and receive online corrections. If they are registered to the course, their scores will be stored and visible for the course manager in the The course statistics.
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Fill an exercise
As a student you can only fill in the available exercises.
The list of available exercises is shown on the start page of the tool, when you click on the Exercises link of the home page of the course.
See my previous scores
- Every user can see its own scores in the exercises : click on My results above the exercise list.
- A more detailed view is available in the personal statistics (accessible through the links My User Account in the banner, and then View my statistics).
- As a course manager you can click on the tracking link available for any exercise in the exercises list to have access to the detailed scores of each student of the course.
Create an exercise
- Click on New exercise in the start page of the tool (be sure that you are logged in as teacher of the course or admin).
- Enter the title of the exercise.
- Enter a description.
- Choose if the user will see all the questions on a unique page or one question per page.
- I you want you can also modify the Advanced settings (not required).
- Choose a start date (default it's the creation date).
- Choose a end date (you have to check the checkbox for the date to be used, users will not be able to pass the exercise after selected date if the checkbox is checked).
- Define a time limit (you have to check the checkbox for the date to be used, if the user take more than selected time to pass the exercise he will not be able to validate its test).
- Choose the number of allowed attempts.
- Choose if anonymous attempts are allowed (if not allowed there will be no tracking).
- Choose when the answer has to be shown :
- Yes : the answer is shown after each attempt.
- After last allowed attempt : the answer is shown when the number of allowed attempts is reached.
- No : No answer is shown.
- Click on Ok.
Create questions
Once your new exercise is created, the list of questions is still empty. You can now fill in your exercise with new questions or questions from the pool.
- To add a new question, click on the
in front of the exercise title, and then on New question.
- Enter your question in the form. You can also add an Attached file.
- Choose the Answer type for your question : Multiple choice (unique/multiple answers), True/False, Fill in blanks, Matching.
- Click on Ok to validate the question and compose the answers.
Compose answers
Multiple choice question
There are two kinds of multiple choice questions :
- Questions with a unique answer
- Questions with multiple answers
In both cases, when you start creating a new question, there are only two possible answers displayed. If you wish to have more possible answers, then :
- Press Add answ. for each additional answer you require.
If you wish the reduce the amount of possible answers, then :
- Press Rem. answ. for each answer to be removed.
Then, for each answer :
- Place a tick in the checkbox for the correct answer(s).
- In the Answer column, enter the text for the possible answers to the questions.
- In the Comment column, enter the feedback that is given if a student selects that answer.
- Adjust the weighting value. The principle of this scoring table is to define proper weight to number of good answers by question. For instance, if you have a question with 4 answers (possibly more than one right) and the student has two wrong and two right, you can give him half of the points, but you can also decide that this is not satisfactory and give, for instance, maximum points (20) if everything is right and zero points in any other combination.
True/false question
A true/false question is like a multiple choice question except that you cannot change the "answer" text.
- Check the correct answer.
- In the Comment column enter feedback that is given if a student selects that answer.
- Adjust the weighting value. The principle of this scoring table is to define proper weight to number of good answers by question. For instance, if you have a question with 4 answers (possibly more than one right) and the student has two wrong and two right, you can give him half of the points, but you can also decide that this is not satisfactory and give, for instance, maximum points (20) if everything is right and zero points in any other combination.
"Matching" question
In this type of question, the student will have to find the correspondance between the elements of to distinct lists.
When you start creating a new question of this kind, there are only two elements in the two lists displayed. If you wish to have more possible elements correspond, then :
- Press Add elem. for each additional answer you require.
If you wish the reduce the amount of elements, then :
- Press Rem. elem. for each answer to be removed.
You can also define the weighting of each answer; they cannot be negative. Don't forget to click on Ok to validate your new question.
"Fill in blanks" question
This type of question consists of a text with some words missing that the student must fill in. When you create this type of question :
- First introduce the text for the question.
- Use brackets [...] to define one or more blanks in the text. Put the correct answers between the brackets.
- Example : [British people] live in [United Kingdom].
- Click on Next when done.
- Define the ponderation for each answer.
- Click on Ok to validate your new question.
Once you have created an exercise, click on the Modify link (
) to see the full list of questions there are in this exercise.
There are two possibilities to add a question in a test :
- Create a new question.
- Add a question from the pool of questions. Clic on Get a question from another exercise.
The question pool
- The Question pool (link at the top of the exercises list) keeps a list of all questions created in the course. The list regroups already used questions (in one or several exercises) and orphaned questions (that are not used in any exercise).
- When you delete an exercise, its questions are not removed from the database. They can be reused in a new exercise via the question pool.
- The question pool also allows you to reuse the same questions in several exercises.
- By default, all questions for your course are shown. You can show the questions related to a specific exercise by choosing it in the drop-down menu Filter.
See the video tutorial Create an exercise (http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/docs/videos/en/Create%20_an_exercise.htm).
