Time Delay on Moodle Quiz 2nd Attempt

I posed a question to Colleen Sanders, Open Educational Resources & Course Materials Affordability Faculty:

I received a question about how to implement an automated delay in a second attempt in a Moodle quiz for a student who didn't score above a pre-determined threshold on their first attempt. Do you see any pedagogical value in making a student who fails a quiz attempt wait a certain amount of time before reattempting?

Colleen's reply:

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It depends on the type of class and how the instructor is teaching it. Is it forced choice or short answer, for example, and is it an online class or hybrid/F2F? When I see faculty do this, it's often with the hope that the student will study the material in between to learn from their mistakes. Some faculty do this to prevent students from trying to quickly memorize the quiz feedback and re-take it with the right answers in their short term memory. But there's no guarantee that happens in between unless the faculty member has some sort of follow-up assignment for students who score below a certain grade that would be a valid measure of new learning. And it can also turn into an equity issue if students now have to re-work their schedules to come back to a quiz in a set time. So, yeah, it depends, and just checking the box to make them wait doesn't guarantee better learning. A follow-up assignment where students demonstrate they learned from their mistakes would be a more valid assessment that they learned from those mistakes.

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Thanks, Colleen!

Importing Publisher test Questions Into Moodle

This short video covers how to import Moodle XML publisher-provided test questions into your Moodle course.

Why Are Moodle Quiz Grades Hidden for Students?

Question: Why are the attempted quiz grades for students not appearing in their grade book view?

Answer: Often times, this is due to the settings of the quiz itself. There are two locations to check that can force the quiz grades into visible status for students:

The Review Options are incorrect

1. Navigate to the course in which the quiz appears
2. Navigate to the quiz and click on the title to enter the quiz
3. Click on Edit Settings from the Admin Block
4. Navigate to Review Options and click to expand the menu

• Under During the Attempt, make sure that the attempt has a check mark next to it.  As a best practice, it is recommended to select all options by placing a check mark next to each option
• Under Immediately After the Attempt, place a check mark next to each option
• Under Later, While the Quiz is Still Open, place a check mark next to each option
• Under After the Quiz is Closed, place a check mark next to each option

       5.  Navigate to Common Module Settings and click to expand the menu
       6.  Using the drop-down menu, choose Show under the Visible section
       7.  Click Save Changes

Setting up a quiz with these settings will ensure that a quiz, once attempted by students, will display the grade for the quiz to students in their grade book view. 

The Moodle Quiz