Quiz

When I'm teaching my Backyard Ballistics course, I often bombard students with questions as I am going along—to gauge understanding, to re-enforce topics specific to particular learning goals, or simply as entertainment. Then I set a final test, to ensure that what I have been teaching has sunk in.

So why should I convert my quick-fire quizzes and final tests to Moodle? Because by doing so I can address two problems:

• Managing my questions:

  I keep a bank of questions I've thought of in Word documents, one for each subject I teach. I also have other documents containing questions my students have written themselves for my class competitions: I often split the class into two teams and get each team to quiz the other—and often student's questions are much more challenging and incisive than mine!

• Marking tests: marking quizzes and tests takes up a lot of my valuable time.

Converting quizzes to Moodle is a two-step process. The first task is to upload my questions to Moodle. Then, once questions...