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Digital Learning Development: Quiz

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Adding a Gapfill Question to the Quiz

Margarita Berezyanskaya

Last Update vor 15 Tagen

Gapfill items require students to fill in the blanks by dragging and dropping answers to blanks in a text.


Steps 1-9 below guide you through the process of creating a new quiz from scratch. If you already have a quiz and want to add a Gapfill item, click on your quiz name in the course. Then click on the Actions menu. Choose Question bank from the drop-down menu, and click on Create a new Question. Then go to step 10 below. 


1. On your course, click the Turn editing on button.



2. In the topic where the link to the Quiz should appear, click on the Add an activity or resource link.



The Add a new activity or resource pop-up appears.


3. Select Quiz in the Activities tab.



The Add a new Quiz window appears.


4. Input a quiz name, for example "Super Foods".


5. Click on the Save and Display button.


6. The quiz editor informs that there are no questions associated with the quiz yet.



7. Click on the Edit quiz button.


8. To add a new quiz question, click on the Add link.



9. Choose + a new question from the drop-down list.



10. Choose Gapfill.



11. Click on the Add button.


12. Choose the Category to which you want to add the question.


13. Type a Question name.


14. In the Question text textbox, type in the stem of the question and instructions on how to answer it. Make sure your instructions fit the Display Answers option selected in step 21 below. For example, "Choose the best answer from the list and drag it onto the blank. The [chemicals] that give the blueberry this dark colour are also very healthy; they protect the cells in our bodies against damage that comes with age."
Note: The target word is surrounded by a single square bracket.

15. Click on the Edit question text button to edit the Gap settings.


Note: The gap becomes highlighted in the questions text textbox.



16. Click on the highlighted gap to open a text editor, to add feedback for correct and incorrect answers (optional). Click on the OK button to save the feedback.



17. In the distractors textbox, type a list of incorrect words, separated by a comma. For example, "antioxidants, fatty acids, organs".


18. If you would like to give general feedback after the students respond to the question, type it in the General feedback textbox. Note that this is not feedback for correct or incorrect responses, but rather more information about the content of the question. You can add links, images, audio or video files here. This feedback will be the same for all students.



19. Click on More Options. to expand this section.



20. From the Delimit characters drop-down menu, choose the characters on your keyboard that you would like to use to separate the target word from the text. In the example above, we used [ and ], but you can also use { }, # #, or @ @.



21. From the Display Answers menu choose dragdrop for students to see a list of words on top of the question text.

Note: Make sure to change the instructions on top of the question for each Display Answer option selected. See previews below each question format.



22. Choose gapfill if you would like students to type in their answers in a blank space.



23. Choose dropdown for the students to see a drop-down menu to choose from in the blanks.



24. To have gaps with the same length across the activity, tick the box near Fixed Gap Size.



25. To use each choice only once, tick the box near Single use draggables, otherwise each draggable word could be used more than once.



26. To show the draggable items below the question text tick the box near Options after text.



27. To use special characters and math symbols in the text tick the box near Disable Regex. This feature will prevent the program from reading characters such as * or < as regular expressions.



28. Tick the box near Letter hints to add a letter of the correct answer in the blanks. Make sure the Multiple tries setting is configured if this option is selected.



29. Tick the box near No Duplicates to discard multiple answers given to a single question.



30. Tick the box near Case Sensitive if you want the students to type gapfil answers with correct capitalization.



31. Click to expand the Combined Feedback section.



Here there are generic sentences for correct, partially correct or incorrect responses. You can keep the default responses or change the wording. You can also use audio and video files or emojis as feedback.



32. Click to expand the Multiple tries section.



Here you can set a penalty for each incorrect try, or provide up to three hints for the learners to help them choose the correct answer.


33. Click on the Tags section to expand it. 

Note: You should only use keywords or tags from the unit that enable you to search the question in the question bank, and not tags used for the eportfolio.
34. Click on the Save changes button.

Resources

Moodle Documents: Gapfill question type