Exams in the Learning solution can have the following types of questions:
- Multiple Choice
- Multiple Answers
- True/False
- Fill-in-the-Blanks
- Matching
Types of Questions
Multiple Choice
Enter your question and the answers to be given as choices to the learner. Decide which is the correct answer, as well as the score the learner gets for answering correctly. You can also enter the feedback you would like the learners to see when reviewing the exam. The default page comes with three placeholders for three different choices but you can add as many as you want.
Note:
You cannot give a negative or zero scores for a correct answer. Neither can you give a positive score for a false answer.
Multiple Answers
This type of question looks very similar to the Multiple Choice Answers but differ in the following ways:
- More than one answer can be correct
- Learners can select more than one answer
- You can either give points for both correct and incorrect answers, or you can award an all-or-nothing score.
- Give points for both correct and incorrect answers: The learner gets points for checking the correct answer, and also points for not checking the wrong answer. If you do not give points for the wrong answers, the learner could theoretically select all the answers (right and wrong) and get the same amount of points for that question. There would be no difference between the learner who checks only the correct answers and the learner who checks everything.
- Award an all-or-nothing score: Select the All-or-Nothing checkbox at the top of the page. When selected, you can set a score value at the question level instead of at each answer level. That means that when a student takes the exam, they must select all the correct answers in order to pass the question.
True/False
This type of question is very similar to the Multiple Choice type but has only two choices for the learner.
Note:
For the Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers, and True/False question types you have three more options for your question.
The first option is to select if you want to completely remove the number or/and letter indication next to each exam answer.
The second option is to select if you need the rating type of this question to be Alphabetical or Numerical. By changing this setting, the answers to your question will either appear as an Alphabetical list (A, B, C..) or a numerical list (0, 1, 2..)
The third option you have is to select if the order of the answers will be static or if you want the answers to be shuffled. You can achieve this by changing the Order of Answers setting.
Important:
The two latter options are not available if the Show Numbering option is Off.
Fill-in-the-Blanks
Here you can give a text with blank fields that the learner has to fill in. Enter your question just as the exam taker should see it, with an underlined blank signifying where the answer should be supplied. Then, enter all qualifying answers in the space provided, surrounding them with a set of square brackets, and separating each with a vertical bar (usually found under the backspace key).
For example,
'Albert ______ invented the Theory of Relativity.' - with your answers as follows: [Einstein|Einstien]
If you want to accept more than one word as correct you can put all of the accepted words in brackets separated by the break line character "|" (not to be confused with the capital i) [word 1 | word 2 | word 3]
"[John|Jack|President] Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States"
Matching
Matching questions require the students to drag and drop the answers from the bottom of the page to correctly relate to the answers above. Type in the answers as they should appear when correct, and the Learning solution automatically randomizes them for the student.
For your Matching type questions, you also have the option to select if you want to completely remove the number or/and letter indication next to each exam answer.
Note:
The rating type option will not be available if the Show Numbering option is Off.
Additionally, you have the option to select if you need the rating type of the question to be Alphabetical or Numerical. By changing this setting, the answers to your question will either appear as an Alphabetical list (A, B, C..) or a numerical list (0, 1, 2..). For Matching type questions, you are able to select the rating type for each of the matching choice columns.
For all the aforementioned question types you can upload images or videos and associate them with a question or an answer. Just select the type of file that you want to upload (image/video) and then click on the camera icon next to the corresponding question or answer in order to choose your file.
The image must have a minimum resolution 186x190 px and a maximum of 1920x1280 px.
Add Question Sections
At the top of the page, you can add sections to the exam by selecting the Add Sections button.
Type in the name of each section, and save.
Drag and drop to reorder the sections.
After adding questions, drag and drop them to the appropriate section, and save.