Word select Question

An example of the word select question

Overview:

This guide will show you how to create a word select question type within the Quiz activity.

What to know:

The word select question type allows students to select words by clicking on them. It can be a useful question type for language learning.  

In your module area/course, click the link of the Quiz activity.

1. Click the 'Questions' tab.

1. On the following page, click the ’Add’ link.
2. Click the ’a new question’ link in the dropdown menu.

1. Locate and select the essay question type from the pop-up window.
2. Click the ’Add’ button.

Category:
You can choose which category you would like to put your question in from the dropdown menu. If you have not created any category in your question bank, you can put the questions in the default category. 

Question name:
The question name is to help you to identify your questions. It is extremely useful when you view your questions in the question bank. It is recommended to put in enough information in the question name to help you to identify your questions quickly, especially in the question bank. A good example will be a question name like "Week1- location of XJTLU". Vague question names like "Q1" should be avoided. This section is mandatory.  Please note, students will not see the question names.  

ID number:
Please leave it blank.  

Introduction:
This is where you put the instructions of your questions. For example, select the words that are grammatically incorrect in the paragraph below by clicking on them. 

Question text:
Question text is a place where you can put in the texts and let the system know which words students need to select by putting delemit characters around the words. Please see below an example:

In a short answer question, the student [type] in a word or phrase in response to a question (that may include [a] image). Answers may or may not be case sensitive. The answer could be a word or a phrase, but it must match one of your acceptable [answer] exactly. It's a good idea to keep the required answer as short as possible to avoid missing a correct answer that's phrased differently.

General feedback:
Feedback can be given to your students at different stages of the quiz depends on how the settings are configured. 

Incorrect selection penalty:
Decrement mark by this percentage for each incorrectly selected word.

Delimit characters:
Please keep the default setting, but in circumstances where programming language is used in the question, you may need to change the delimit characters. 

You can put in a tag or several tags by key in the tags. Click "x" to delete a tag. Tags can help you to organize your questions in your question bank. Read more about the use of Tag from this article (link). Tags are designed for your question management purpose. It will not be displayed to students