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Managing multiple-choice questions efficiently. ~多肢選択問題を効率よく管理する~ Mari Yamauchi & Kenichi Kamiya 山内真理・神谷健一 2010.2.14 MoodleMoot Hakodate 2010. Have you ever wanted. To create Moodle questions in bulk? To reuse a question to create slightly different questions more easily?
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Managing multiple-choice questions efficiently ~多肢選択問題を効率よく管理する~ Mari Yamauchi & Kenichi Kamiya 山内真理・神谷健一 2010.2.14 MoodleMoot Hakodate 2010
Have you ever wanted... To create Moodle questions in bulk? To reuse a question to create slightly different questions more easily? To easily find particular questions (you think) you have created before? To reorganize the existing questions?
MCG: quiz generator + question database Generator works on a local computer Database can be shared through Google Docs Download at http://www.maymeng.net/moodle/
MCG: quiz generator + question database question database (spreadsheet) MoodleXML (or GIFT) quiz generator
1. Creating a question Question Choices General feedback
Creating a question within Moodle Question General feedback Choices
Creating a question using the spreadsheet General feedback Choices Question
Spreadsheet MCG XML format Moodle XML format Output to File
2. Reusing a question e.g. Translation added
Reusing a question within Moodle Reusing a question using the spreadsheet 1. Open a question editor 2. Edit the question 3. Save it as a new question 1. Copy a line 2. Edit it
MCG will help ... 1. Create Moodle questions in bulk easily. 2. Reuse a question to create slightly different questions easily. In addition ...
3. Finding particular questions How many exercises on infinitives do I have? Haven’t I created questions containing “temporarily” before?
Finding particular questions using MCG Full-text search Keyword
Full-text search Search -14 questions are selected. -Do you use all of them?
+Output the selected Qs in a desired format Create (a set of Qs) Do you randomize the questions?
(1) Output in plain text format (.txt) text format Output to File
Attention: File type must be*.tab File name = *.txt File type = *.tab
(2) Output in XML format (.xml) Moodle XML format Output to File
Attention: File type must be*.tab File name = *.xml File type = *.tab
Hands-On Try tag-based search using the prepared database. (J) 品詞・動詞・前置詞・接続詞 (E) pos・vb・prep・conj Try creating an XML file / a text file.
4. Reorganizing Moodle questions Export questions (a category) to an XML file Import the XML file to MCG Moodle questions imported to MCG with HTML tags Moodle questions recorded in a spreadsheet (.xls) = Under Development
(2) Import the XML file to MCG Option Read Copy & Paste the XML file Import Moodle XML
MCG will help ... 3. Find particular questions in the spreadsheet (.xls). 4. Reorganize the existing questions/ categories. *Moodle XMLMCG: Under development (The script to be revised; XSLT to be used?)
Summary of the current version question database (spreadsheet) MoodleXML (or GIFT) quiz generator
To Conclude... The current version of MCG will help teachers - planning to create new sets of questions (without images/ audio), esp. in collaboration with their colleagues - wanting to manage existing paper-based quizzes & reuse them in Moodle - teachers regularly using Moodle quizzes in combination with paper-based quizzes A future version of MCG will help teachers wanting to reorganize Moodle questions with HTML tags