Use Quiz for summative assessment

This is a time-constrained summative assessment, which contributes to the student credit rating for a particular module and students can complete the assessment off-campus.

• Scheduling: For a large quiz during term-time, don't schedule your quiz at the top of the hour to avoid performance issues with huge numbers of students recording their attendance in Moodle.
  • Avoid scheduling quizzes on Tuesday mornings as Moodle may be unavailable each Tuesday morning between 7-9am GMT/BST for maintenance.
• Notify IT: Inform IT via IT Self Service Portal as soon as you start planning the quiz assessment to check for any maintenance planned for, or near, the quiz date.
• On campus access: Facility on campus must be made available for student to complete an online examination should they require it, to ensure fairness of access.

• Hide the Quiz: Ensure you hide the Quiz activity or set an open date while you are adding questions to it so that the questions are not presented to students in advance of the assessment.
• Get your settings right: Review the recommended settings for summative quizzes document.
• Build in extra time: Examinations of a quantitative nature should take place at a scheduled time on Moodle and have an additional half hour allowed over and above the indicative length to support technological access.
• Randomisation: Consider randomising the order in which questions are presented, and randomising the presented order of the answers to minimise the chance of students cheating by copying the answers of the people around them.
• New page: If you present questions in a series of pages or screens students' responses will automatically be saved at the end of each page, ensuring that their responses are not inadvertently lost. 

Contact Digital Education team via IT Self Service portal if you want your Quiz activity settings checked.

Related guidance

• Provide practice Quiz & brief students: Provide a practice Quiz to students to familiarise them with the Quiz activity before they use a Quiz for summative assessment. Inform students of the scoring criteria, number and types of questions, any navigation constraints and the time limit.
• Logging in: Ensure that all students are enrolled on the module where the Quiz is displayed. Remind students to log into Moodle at least 2 working days before the assessment. If they are unable to log in, ask them to contact their course officer immediately.
• Test your Quiz: Before releasing the Quiz to students you should check it thoroughly and ask someone from your discipline to run through it and provide feedback. If using multiple choice questions, double-check the answers. Ensure that distractors (wrong answers) are not too obvious.

• School contacts: Schools should identify academic and administrative contacts so that any queries can be answered. Staff should make themselves available for at least the first hour and the last hour of the assessment period, in order that students have support when trying to access or submit the Quiz. Staff should have in-hand the contact details for IT Self Service Portal in case of technical issues.
• Technical issues: If any students experience problems, please ask them to log an incident on the IT Self Service Portal providing as much detail as possible with the problems they experienced.