What is it?

The quiz module (in conjunction with My Progress tool and Self-Assessment tool) allows you to create a database of questions (multiple choice, matching, short answer, calculated and paragraph) for the creation of quizzes (subsets of questions from the database) that can be randomised and delivered to students.

Possible uses

Strengths

  • Feedback can be immediate.
  • Can save your time.
  • Automatic marking and randomised questions can allow students to test themselves over and over again. It is then in their control.

Limitations

  • Automatic marking is limited to lower level learning behaviours.
  • There is possibility of disputes with automatic marking.

Tips for use

  • Embed links into the question stem to encourage research and investigation.
  • Create longer 'case' stems that require translation, interpretation, analysis and application.
  • Use the feedback opportunity to send students back to the precise text if they have misunderstood concepts.
  • Give students feedback about what they know and what they have yet to learn.
  • Use the short answer tool for teaching and testing students' understandings of hierarchies, priorities and procedural stages.
  • Allow students to have unlimited access to tests as preparation for exams etc.
  • Don't release summative marks until you or your tutors have checked them.
  • Allow for technical problems.
  • Give students fallback positions.

A series of online tutorials are available that provide information on using the tools and features of FLO. You can access the tutorials and use them at your own pace.