Exams

Quiz Exams

Assignment Exams

• Creating a Quiz Exam in cuLearn
• Reviewing and Grading Quiz Exams in cuLearn
• Tips to Improve Security and Reduce Cheating
• Quiz FAQ

• Creating Assignments in cuLearn
• Grading Assignments in cuLearn
• Assignment FAQ

 STEP 1: Set up a question category in your question bank

• How to access the question bank
• How to create question categories in the question bank

STEP 2: Add or import your exam questions to your question bank category

→Find out more about the different question types available in cuLearn

• How to add questions to your question bank category
• How to import multiple choice questions in Aiken Format

STEP 3: Add the quiz activity to your course

• How to add a quiz activity to your cuLearn course
• Tips for Setting up a Quiz

 STEP 4: Add the exam questions from your question bank category to your quiz

• How to add questions from a question bank category to your quiz

• Preview your quiz to see how students will view your exam.
• Create a practice test to help students prepare for the exam. Providing your students with a realistic practice test (complete with questions from previous exams/tests) can alleviate part of students’ anxiety and help familiarize them with the online exam format. To set up a practice test, create a zero point quiz (so it will not count toward their mark in the gradebook) and allow students an unlimited number of attempts so they can review and practice as many times as they wish.

✓ Shuffle the order of the questions presented to students

• • How to shuffle your quiz questions

✓ Randomize the order of the responses to each question 

• •  To randomize the responses, enable “Shuffle the choices?” in the Question Behaviour section of your quiz settings when creating questions

✓ Give students different questions by randomly selecting from a larger Question Bank                      

✓ Set a time limit for taking the quiz once started   

• • The time limit can be set in the Timing section of your Quiz settings. Setting a time limit allows a countdown timer to be displayed in the quiz navigation block                                                              

✓ Limit the availability period of an exam                                                                           

• • The availability period can be set in the Timing section of your Quiz settings by enabling the “open the quiz” and “close the quiz” date/time. Students will not be able to access the exam before the specified open time or after the close time                    

✓ Control which aspects of the quiz may be reviewed upon completion by adjusting the Review Options in your quiz settings

• • Review Purposes:  If you are using a cuLearn Quiz for review purposes, you may want to limit Quiz feedback to:  The attempt (what students selected for their answer) and General feedback (verbal feedback given to all students regardless of their response to the question).
  • Test/Exam Purposes:  If you are using a cuLearn Quiz for assessment/testing purposes, students should only see their attempt until the Quiz is closed (no further attempts may be made by anyone in the class-including PMC students).  When the Quiz is closed, students should be able to see their attempt, whether it was correct, their mark and any relevant feedback.

✓ Use the Calculated question type to allow the use of wild cards to randomize the values in the question

• • Find out more about the Calculated Question Type

✓ Require students to agree to an honour statement                                                        

• • You can add an honour code statement in your quiz description when setting up your quiz. The description should state that by attempting the quiz, you accept and agree to all statements made within the honour code. Another way to reinforce academic integrity is to have students sign a contract emphasizing the University’s academic integrity policy and outlining consequences for violations. 

✓ Make students aware of Moodle’s tracking and logging abilities                                  

• • If students understand that their actions within cuLearn are recorded in log files, they will be less likely to attempt to circumvent technology. Student tracking data can be found in the Logs. If you would like some help pulling out specific data contact the EDC at 613-520-2600 x4433 or edc@carleton.ca.

✓ Add extra restrictions on exam attempts

• • Require password:  Students must enter a password in order to attempt the quiz. This is especially useful for a proctored quiz where you want to ensure that only students in a specific location are able to access the quiz.
  • Require network address: Like the require password setting, this is useful when you want to limit quiz access to specified computer lab on campus, or just campus in general for example).
  • Browser Security:  If this option is selected, the quiz will appear in a full screen pop-up (students’ computers must allow pop-ups) that covers all other windows and has no navigation controls.  Students will be prevented from using copy and paste features

✓ Use Higher-order thinking Questions                                                                               

• • Write questions that address higher-order thinking skills (such as case studies) to force students to evaluate a situation or a problem, engaging them in critical thinking

✓ Display only one exam question at a time   

• • You can set your exam to display one question at a time in the Layout section of your quiz settings. Allowing students to only view one question per page will make copying the questions more difficult

If you have an urgent issue during your exam, Carleton’s Joint Online Exams Team is maintaining a toll-free emergency line (1-877-557-2930). Support for cuLearn, Information Technology Services, Scheduling and Examination Services and the Paul Menton Centre will be available.