Quiz exercise

Overview

  • Prepare a Quiz Exercise: Only instructors and editors can create, import, and export quiz exercises.

  • Resolve a Quiz Exercise: Students can solve quiz exercises.

Prepare a Quiz Exercise

This section describes the process to:

  • Create Quiz Exercises

  • Create Drag and Drop Model Quiz Exercises

  • Import Quiz Exercises from other courses

  • Export Quiz Exercises

Create new Quiz Exercise

  • On the Artemis home page, click on the Course Management button CourseManagementButton.

  • Navigate into Exercises of a specific course by clicking on the exercise button.

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  • In the quiz exercises section, click on the Create Quiz button CreateAQuizButton to open the following form to create the new quiz exercise.

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    • Title: Provide a title for the quiz exercise (The red line means that this field is mandatory).

    • Categories: Type the category for the quiz exercise.

    • Difficulty: Select the difficulty level among Easy, Medium and Hard. It is possible to select No Level.

    • Duration: Provide the time in minutes and seconds for students to solve the quiz exercise.

    • Options: Choose between presenting the questions in random order or not.

    • Batch Mode: Batch Mode controls how students can participate in the quiz.

      • Synchronized: There is exactly one opportunity for all students to participate in the quiz.

      • Batched: There are multiple opportunities for students to participate in the quiz by using a password.

      • Individual: Students can participate in the quiz by themselves at any time while it is released.

    • Visible from: The date and hour when the quiz becomes visible to students.

    • Schedule Quiz Start: To establish the date and hour at which the quiz will be available for solving.

      • Start of working time: Set the time for the students to see the questions and start answering them. Students can start working on the quiz from this time until the duration ends.

    • Should this exercise be included in the course score calculation?:

      • Yes: the points will be included in the course score calculation.

      • No: the points will not be included in the course score calculation.

      • Bonus: the points will be considered as bonus points.

    • Questions: There are four ways to add questions to a quiz exercise.

      • Add Multiple-Choice Question

        This kind of question is composed of a problem statement with multiple options.

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        • Short question title: Provide a short title (Mandatory).

        • Points: Assign the value points for this question.

        • Scoring type:

          • All or Nothing

          • Proportional with Penalty

          • Proportional without Penalty

        • Present answer options in random order.

        • Single Choice Mode: When there is just one correct option. This disables the Scoring type (resp. sets it to All or Nothing).

        • Delete icon: To delete the current question.

        • Edit View: Enables the text editor to write the quiz statement and its options, hints and explanations.

        • Edit bar: When the edit view is enabled, the format bar provides:

          • Style to the statement text

          • Correct Options [correct]

          • Incorrect Options [wrong]

          • Explanations [exp]

          • Hints [hint]

        • Text editor: The quiz statement can be developed with options, hints and explanations.

        • Preview View: Enables the student view.

      • Add Drag-And-Drop Question

        This kind of question is composed of a problem statement, a background image, and drag and drop options.

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        • Short question title: Provide a short title.

        • Points: Assign the value points for this question.

        • Scoring type:

          • All or Nothing

          • Proportional with Penalty

          • Proportional without Penalty

        • Present Drag Items in Random order.

        • Delete icon: To delete the current question.

        • Edit View: Enables the text editor to write the question statement with explanations and hints.

        • Edit bar: When the edit view is enabled, the format bar provides:

          • Style to the statement text

          • Explanations [exp]

          • Hints [hint]

        • Text editor: The quiz statement can be developed with hints and explanations.

        • Upload Background: To select and upload the background from the PC files to drag and drop the options over it.

        • Add Drag Items:

          • Text items: Type the options.

          • Image items: Can be uploaded from the PC files.

        • Preview View: Enables the student view.

      • Add Short-Answer Question

        This kind of question is composed of a statement and spots to fill them out by typing the answers.

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        • Short question title: Provide a short title.

        • Points: Assign the value points for this question.

        • Scoring type:

          • All or Nothing

          • Proportional with Penalty

          • Proportional without Penalty

        • Match Letter Case

        • Match Answers Exactly: This option moves the match slider to 100%.

        • Delete icon: To delete the current question.

        • Add Spot Option: To add the spot between the text to be filled out.

        • Add Answer Option: To provide the answer for each spot.

        • Text editor: The quiz statement can be developed with the spots and options.

        • Text View: Enables the text editor to write and edit the question statement.

        • Visual View: Enables the student view.

      • Add Existing Questions

        This option allows to import existing questions from other quiz exercises, courses, exams and files.

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        • Source buttons:

          • From a course

          • From an exam

          • From a file

        • List picker to select a specific course, exam or file.

        • Searching bar: to look for the question providing its name or part of it.

        • Filter options according to the type of questions:

          • Drag and Drop Question

          • Multiple Choice Question

          • Short Answer Question

        • Apply filter button

        • List of questions with the title, short title, and Type. In the Add column, it is possible to select all questions to be imported.

        • At the end of the list, click the Add selected Questions button AddSelectedQuestionsButton to import all selected questions.

    • Footer: On the creation quiz page there is a footer with the following fields:

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      • Error messages

      • Warning messages

      • Cancel button

      • Save button

Create Drag and Drop Model Quiz Exercise

  • In the quiz exercises section click on the Create Quiz button CreateDragAndDropQuizButton.

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  • On the Apollon Diagrams page, it is possible to see the list of Apollon Diagrams and the possible actions to perform with them.

    • Open

    • Delete

  • Clicking on the creation of a new Apollon Diagram button CreateANewApollonDiagram opens the following form:

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    • Title: provide the title of the Drag-and-Drop Model Quiz

    • Diagram Type: It is a list picker to select between several diagrams:

      • Class Diagram

      • Activity Diagram

      • Object Diagram

      • Use Case Diagram

      • Communication Diagram

      • Component Diagram

      • Deployment Diagram

      • Petri Net

      • Syntax Tree

      • Flowchart

    • Save button

    • Cancel button

  • Click the save button to open the Apollon editor

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    • Title: Allows to edit the tile of the diagram.

    • Crop image to selection: Allows to download the current selection.

    • Download button: To download the selection.

    • Generate a quiz exercise button.

    • Save button.

    • Modeling field: The items for modeling the diagram will be displayed here.

    • Elements to Drag and Drop in the Modeling field.

Import a Quiz

  • In the quiz exercises section, click on the Import a Quiz button ImportQuizButton.

  • The list of existing quizzes will appear.

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    • The searching bar: Allows to look for a specific quiz by typing its name or part of it.

    • The list of quizzes: Whit their ID, title, course and indicator if they are exam questions.

    • Clicking the Import button ImportButton opens the quiz editor with the existing questions. Here it is possible to edit all parameters such as in Create new Quiz Exercise.

Export a Quiz

  • In the quiz exercises section, click on the Export Quiz Exercises button ExportQuizExerciseButton and the list of quizzes will be shown

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    • Select the quizzes for being exported in the Export column.

    • The Export button ExportButton will download the quiz in a JSON file.

Resolve a Quiz Exercise

  • If a quiz exercise is available on the Artemis home page as a current exercise, it will be possible to see it in the course overview or inside the course where it belongs.

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  • The current exercise box will show:

    • The name of the quiz

    • The button to start the quiz

    • The category

    • The message if the quiz is active

    • The due date

  • To start the quiz, the student must press the Open quiz button OpenQuizButton.

  • If the quiz is set to start at a specific time and the student opens it before, he/she will see a message asking to wait until the quiz starts and displaying the remaining time.

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  • When the quiz starts, the student can see the questions and solve them.

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  • The quiz page is composed of:

    • Number and title of the question

    • Points for solving that question

    • The quiz statement

    • Options:

      • Options with circles mean one choice could be correct.

      • Options with squares mean multiple options could be correct.

    • In the footer:

      • The number of questions and overall points.

      • Time left to complete the quiz.

      • Last time saved: The quiz will save all changes after they occur.

      • Connection status.

      • Submit button: To allow the student to submit the quiz before the time ends.

    • In the case of Drag and Drop questions, the items to be dragged and dropped in the spots will be available on the right side.

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    • To submit and finish the quiz, the student must press the Submit button SubmitButton. However, when the quiz time’s up, the answers will be submitted automatically.

  • The assessment is automatic and the student can see the result of the overall quiz and of specific questions. In the case of MC questions, the solution will be displayed.

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  • In the case of Drag and Drop questions, the solution is shown by clicking the Show Sample Solution button ShowSampleSolutionButton.

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