Teaching Online at UTAS

What do they do?

You can use Quizzes to help evaluate users’ learning progress and learning outcomes. A Quiz contains a selection of questions that students must answer, usually within a specified time limit. You can create several types of questions, most of which can be automatically graded. You can also give students a random selection of questions from a larger bank of questions. Once learners have completed a Quiz, you can view Quiz statistics such as grade distribution, grade average, question statistics, and user statistics on the Statistics page.

Useful terminology

• Quiz: a set of questions delivered at one time to a student.
• Question: an individual question in the Quiz. Several different types of question are available.
• Question Bank: the location of stored questions in the Quiz tool.
• Random Selection: a set of questions from which a specified number are drawn at random for a Quiz.
• Submission View: the settings that define what the students will see when they complete the Quiz, for example if they will see the questions and/or answer text.

What are Quizzes best for?

• Self study feedback on topic areas.
• Evaluating students’ recognition of terms and definitions.
• Determining prior knowledge and allowing students with existing prior knowledge to skip related modules.
• Gathering data for student progress.
• Just-in-time-teaching (JITT) and flipped classroom approaches.

Tool capabilities

Assessable?
Turnitin?
Peer review?
Grademark?
Rubric?
Sychronous?
Asynchronous?
ITR Supported?
Can student contributions be quarantined?
Can versions of student contributions be reviewed?

Helpful resources and instructions

• Quiz and Survey Question Types in MyLO
  A useful summary of the question types available, how to set them up and marking implications.
• Associate a Grade Item with a Dropbox, Discussion or Quiz
  You must associate a Grade Item with a Quiz, if you want the Quiz result to count towards students’ grades for the unit.
• Providing extensions to students
  There is no need to replicate Quizzes to cater for students who need an extension (e.g. due to a Learning Access Plan requirement).  The Special Access feature allows you to extend deadlines and time limits for individual students, or groups of students.