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October 23, 2017 7:03 AM Subscribe
I need to make a quiz on Moodle that lets the students pick which word they hear out of a word pair, click that choice, and then move onto the next pair. Can I do this, and if so, how? (Non-Moodle variations I can link to work as well.)
For my M.A. thesis, I am using a group of students as research targets, and my professor uses Moodle. I have managed to set up all resources but this one.
What I need should look like this:
Choose the word you hear
1. grow or glow
2. road or load
3. right or light
.....
...
The students would click on each word pair and an audio file of me saying either grow pops up, they decide that they hear "grow" (hopefully, or my teaching them beforehand wasn't successful) and click on that or maybe write it out, then go to the next pair.
11. light load – right road
Is this actually possible and if so, how do I do it? I can't figure it out, the tutorial I found doesn't work because it seems to be using a different version of Moodle, and my professor suggested Google Forms which to me looks like mostly RSVP stuff?
Help, please, I have grad student brain this semester and too many classes to function properly. :(
For my M.A. thesis, I am using a group of students as research targets, and my professor uses Moodle. I have managed to set up all resources but this one.
What I need should look like this:
Choose the word you hear
1. grow or glow
2. road or load
3. right or light
.....
...
The students would click on each word pair and an audio file of me saying either grow pops up, they decide that they hear "grow" (hopefully, or my teaching them beforehand wasn't successful) and click on that or maybe write it out, then go to the next pair.
11. light load – right road
Is this actually possible and if so, how do I do it? I can't figure it out, the tutorial I found doesn't work because it seems to be using a different version of Moodle, and my professor suggested Google Forms which to me looks like mostly RSVP stuff?
Help, please, I have grad student brain this semester and too many classes to function properly. :(
Yes, a lot of this will depend on the specific options and plugins that your institution has installed for Moodle; so advicepig's advice is what I would do first, if it's an option.
That said, I can probably help a bit, but a bit of clarification is needed. There are several things you seem to want to do: make a quiz in Moodle; create new questions and add them to that quiz; make the quiz so that the students must answer one question at a time (or not—this isn't entirely clear); and add audio samples to the questions. Which of these things do you already know how to do?
posted by Johnny Assay at 7:29 AM on October 23, 2017
That said, I can probably help a bit, but a bit of clarification is needed. There are several things you seem to want to do: make a quiz in Moodle; create new questions and add them to that quiz; make the quiz so that the students must answer one question at a time (or not—this isn't entirely clear); and add audio samples to the questions. Which of these things do you already know how to do?
posted by Johnny Assay at 7:29 AM on October 23, 2017
I think the audio file is going to be the major hurdle for you here and Moodle may not be the best solution. I agree with advicepig's advice (heh), you should contact your institutions instructional technology support services. I am an instructional technologist at a university, but my answer to this question is guaranteed to be different from the answer a technologist at your institution would give you, because I presumably have an entirely different suite of tools at my disposal. If someone here asked me this, I'd tell them to use Qualtrics, because we have an enterprise license for that.
My guess at one thing that is going to happen, though, is you will be hosting these audio clips elsewhere and embedding them (e.g. Soundcloud) rather than inserting an mp3 directly into an assessment. But, again, I can't be sure because I don't know what your Moodle configuration is.
posted by soren_lorensen at 10:23 AM on October 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
My guess at one thing that is going to happen, though, is you will be hosting these audio clips elsewhere and embedding them (e.g. Soundcloud) rather than inserting an mp3 directly into an assessment. But, again, I can't be sure because I don't know what your Moodle configuration is.
posted by soren_lorensen at 10:23 AM on October 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Thank you, everyone!
I have managed to upload the sound files (they're only one word each), and Moodle can play them, but it won't let me create a quiz. I will ask my professor today which plugins the university has, if any, because I have a feeling he's using Moodle because he hates our school's own system, and that the school doesn't actually support Moodle.
If it's the only way this works, I could make one new quiz for each work pair, but I can't even figure out how to do that...
This is what it looks like right now in editing mode.
posted by LoonyLovegood at 4:23 PM on October 23, 2017
I have managed to upload the sound files (they're only one word each), and Moodle can play them, but it won't let me create a quiz. I will ask my professor today which plugins the university has, if any, because I have a feeling he's using Moodle because he hates our school's own system, and that the school doesn't actually support Moodle.
If it's the only way this works, I could make one new quiz for each work pair, but I can't even figure out how to do that...
This is what it looks like right now in editing mode.
posted by LoonyLovegood at 4:23 PM on October 23, 2017
Best answer: I'm not sure what you mean by it "won't let you" create a quiz. On my institution's Moodle system, you have to create the quiz first, and then add questions to it; it's a two-step process. Here's how creating a quiz in detail:
posted by Johnny Assay at 9:58 PM on October 23, 2017
- On the page in your screenshot, set the options for the quiz. Don't put anything in the "Introduction" field except the introductory text.
- Click on "Save and display" at the bottom of the page.
- If your system is like mine now on a page with buttons that say "Edit Quiz" and "Back to the course". It also informs me that no questions have been added to the quiz yet. Click on "Edit Quiz".
- You should now be on a page that shows you the list of questions, along with a button to add questions (either new ones, or from a test bank, etc.)
- If you select "Add a new question" and select a type of question (you probably want multiple-choice), you are taken to a page where you can write out a single question. This allows you to define the question text (hopefully you can embed your audio file in here), the various choices, and the scoring for each choice.
- Once you save this question, it will be in your quiz. Repeat for the other n questions in your quiz.
posted by Johnny Assay at 9:58 PM on October 23, 2017
Response by poster: Thank you again!
My institution really does not support Moodle at all, but a classmate taught me how to do it, and that worked.
posted by LoonyLovegood at 3:04 AM on October 24, 2017
My institution really does not support Moodle at all, but a classmate taught me how to do it, and that worked.
posted by LoonyLovegood at 3:04 AM on October 24, 2017
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