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Quickmail

Instructors can use Quickmail in Moodle to email students. The email will appear in students' SCC email accounts with a subject line that includes the ID number of the course (i.e. "[ACA-111-WC1-2020FA] Your Email Subject Line Here").

Step 1

In your Moodle course, open the right side block drawer to reveal the Quickmail block 
Step 2 On the resulting screen, scroll until you see Quickmail.  
Step 3 To get started with an email, click on Compose Course Message.  
Step 4 Choose the recipients for your email by clicking on the student names either under under To (Students to Include), or Exclude (Students to Exclude)  
Step 5 Once you have added all intended recipients, scroll down and type a Subject and a Message. You can also add an attachment.  
Step 6 If you wish to receive a copy of the email, be sure the radio button next to Yes is selected.

Click the Send Email button when you're ready to send.		  
Step 7 On the resulting screen, you will see your Quickmail history.   


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Quizzes

This tutorial will assist you in creating your quiz activity, but you will add questions to the quiz activity in a later tutorial. A video tutorial can be found here: Creating a Quiz

Step 1

Enable the Edit button at the top right of the screen. 

 Edit mode enabled
Step 2 To get started, click +Add an activity or resource at the bottom of each section of the course. 

+Add an activity or resource
Step 3 In the pop-up, navigate to Activities and select the Quiz activity. 

Quiz
Step 4 Name the quiz and (optionally) add a brief description. 

New Quiz

 
Step 5 

The next step is to configure optional settings to change the appearance, layout, or functionality of a quiz.

For more information about each setting, visit the Settings for Quizzes webpage. 

 New Quiz Settings
Step 6  Click Save and display or Save and Return to Course. 

Save and Return to course button



Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Quizzes - Accessing Statistics

Update

Quizzes - Adding Existing Questions to a Quiz

This tutorial walks you through adding existing questions (from a category) to a quiz.

Step 1 Click on the quiz you wish to add questions to and go to the Questions tab.

Step 2

Select Add. Choose from the question bank to choose a specific question from an existing category.

If you prefer to choose a random question (or multiple random questions), skip to Step 6 below.

Image of the add field highlighted in blue
Step 3 Choose from the question bank to choose a specific question from an existing category.

If you prefer to choose a random question (or multiple random questions), skip to Step 6 below.

Image highlighting the From Question bank option
Step 4 Next to Select a category, choose the category from which you wish to select questions for your quiz. The page will reload to display questions only from that specific category.

Image of the Question bank prompt
  
Step 5 Check the box next to each question you wish to add.

(Alternately, you can check the box next to the T at the top of the list to select all questions in the category.)

Next, click Add selected questions to the Quiz.

Your questions are now added and you can ignore the following steps of this tutorial.

Image showing sample questions and the Add selected questions button
  
Step 6
 If you prefer to add random questions from a category (or more than one category) to your quiz, click  + a random question.

Image if the Random question option
Step 7 Use the drop-down menu to select the appropriate category.

Image highlighting a sample option under Category
Step 8 Under Number of random questions, use the drop-down menu to choose the number of questions you want to add that will be randomly chosen from the category, then click Add random question.

Image of the Random question prompt
Step 9 Your questions are now added, with the random questions designated by the die icon and "Random" and the category the question comes from.

Image sample of questions added


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Quizzes - Adding Questions

This tutorial walks you through adding questions to a quizzes. A video tutorial can be found here: Adding Questions to a Quiz

Step 1 Click on the name of the quiz you wish to add questions to.

(Alternatively, choose Edit settings from the menu under the three dots in the corner of the activity). 

Image highlighting a sample quiz in blue and showing the Edit settings option
Step 2 On the resulting screen, click either Add question, or the Questions tab.

Image of the Questions option highlighted in blue
Step 3

On the resulting screen, select Add.

Image highlighting the Add option in blue
Step 4 Choose a new question.

Image highlighting the A new Question option in blue
Step 5 Choose the question type you want from the list. (Select a question type to see its description.) Click Add.

For the purposes of this tutorial, we are using Multiple choice.

Image of the Add a new question prompt
   
Step 6 Give the question a name; this is required, though students will not see the Question name. (The name will make it easier to identify the question in the future.)

Then type the text of the question you want students to answer.

Image of the Name and Question text fields
Step 7 You may adjust the point value for the question in the Default mark section.

Image example of Default Mark
Step 8 In the Answers section, type the possible answers in each Choice text box section.

Image of the answers fields
Step 9 To assign one of the responses as a correct answer, use the Grade drop-down menu to choose 100%.

Image highlighting the Grade option
 Step 10 Click Save changes.

Image of the Save changes button
 Step 11 Your question has now been added. To add another question to the quiz, return to steps 3-10 of this tutorial.  Unit 1


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Quizzes - Copying from One Course to Another

The process for copying content from one course to another in Moodle is called "import." To copy content from one course to another, you will need to start in the destination course (where you wish the quiz to appear). For a video tutorial, click here.

Step 1

In Moodle, navigate to your destination course. Click on the gear icon in the upper right of the course, and select Import.
Step 2 On the resulting page, choose the course you wish to import from and click Continue.
Step 3 Leave all of the default boxes checked (though you can deselect some if you wish; however, you must leave Include activities and resources and Include question bank checked).

Click the Next button.
Step 4 On the resulting screen, deselect anything you do not want to bring over to the destination course. We recommend clicking None and then selecting only the topic and quiz(zes) you wish to bring over.

Be sure to leave the topic selected where the quiz is housed in the original course. This will allow you to select the quiz in that section to import.

At the bottom of the screen, click Next.		  
 Step 5
 On the resulting screen, review your choices and either choose Previous to change your selections or click Perform import to continue.
Step 6 The process of importing may take a few minutes. When you see Import complete. Click continue to return the course, click Continue to finish.  

 

Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Quizzes - Create using Word or Text Files

Follow this tutorial on the Moodle site for uploading quizzes using different formats: Importing Questions with Text and Word Files

Quizzes - Deleting (Clearing) Attempts

If you need to allow a student to re-take a quiz, you may need to clear the student's first attempt (depending on the settings of the quiz). A video tutorial can be found here: Clearing a Student's Attempt.

Step 1

Access student quiz submissions by clicking on the quiz.

Image example of a Quiz highlighted with a blue arrow
Step 2 On the resulting screen, click the Results link in the course menu .

Image of the Results option highlighted in blue
Step 3 On the resulting screen, scroll down to view the submissions. Check the box to the left of the student's name and attempt.

Image highlighting the checkbox beside a sample user
Step 4 Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Delete selected attempts.

Image of Delete selected attempts highlighted in blue
Step 5 On the confirmation pop-up box, click Yes.

Now your student can re-take the quiz.

Image example of the confirmation message and Yes highlighted in Blue


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

Quizzes - Editing

This tutorial will walk you through editing an existing quiz.

Step 1

Enable the Edit Mode on your course page.

Image example of Edit mode enabled
Step 2

Navigate to the quiz you wish to edit. Click on the three dots then choose Edit settings.

Image example of a Quiz highlighting the settings option with a blue arrow)
Step 3 On the resulting screen, you may edit the name, the description, and/or the settings of the quiz.

Image of a sample test with sample description
Step 4 After making any needed updates, click Save and display.

Image of the Save and display button
Step 5 To edit the questions, click the questions tab in the upper course menu.

You can edit the questions as long as no student has taken the quiz yet. 

Image of the Questions option highlighted in blue
 
Step 6 On the resulting page, you may edit the questions individually by clicking the gear icon to the left of the question.

Image showing the gear icon
Step 7 Use the move arrow icon to drag and drop the questions into a different order.

Image highlighting the Arrow icon in blue
Step 8
 Click the box next to Shuffle to shuffle the question order.

Image highlighting the Shuffle checkbox in blue
Step 9 Click the pencil icon next to the point value to change the number of points the question is worth.

Image of the Pencil icon highlighted in blue
Step 10 Click the magnifying glass icon to preview the question.

Image highlighting a sample Magnifying Glass icon in blue
Step 11 Click the trash can icon to delete the question.

Image highlighting the Delete icon
Step 12
 You can update the maximum point value of the quiz at the top right of the page. Be sure to click Save in the upper right of the screen to save any changes you make to the Maximum grade.

Image highlighting the Save button in blue

Quizzes - Grading

Most quiz questions are automatically graded by Moodle. This tutorial will show you how manually grade any questions not automatically graded by Moodle. A video tutorial can be found here: Manually Grading a Quiz

Step 1

Access student quiz submissions by clicking on the quiz.

Image example of a Quiz highlighted with a blue arrow
Step 2 On the resulting screen,  select Results to expand the options, then click Manual grading.

Image of the Results option highlighted in blue
Step 3 On the resulting screen, scroll down to view the manual questions, then click grade all.

Image example of sample questions
Step 4 On the resulting screen, assign a mark (point value) for the student's answer.

You may also give the student feedback in the Comment area.

Image showing the comments section and the Mark field highlighted in blue
 
Step 5 When finished grading that student's answer, click Save and go to next page to grade the next student's response.

Image of the Save and go to the next page button
 Step 6 When finished grading the answers to that question, click Back to the list of questions.

Image of the Back to the list of questions button


Questions? Please submit a Help Ticket to SCC E-Learning (under "Select Type of Help," choose "Moodle Assistance")

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