Exams: question types overview
Summary
Safety Made Simple has 6 different question styles available, for creating question pools for exams. Within a course, you create a question pool, and add questions to the pool for an exam.
Within a question pool, you create questions to test your learners' knowledge. You assign point values to the questions for correct answers.
You can provide feedback to explain the answers, either for individual answers, or overall to address the question.
The rich text editor, called CK Editor, lets you upload images or videos, so you can base your questions around the visual content.
True/False
Pick one
Similar to true/false, you enter a question and provide 1 correct answer, and up to 3 incorrect answers.
Multiple correct
Another choice question: enter a statement in the text editor, and assign multiple answers, in any combination of correct and incorrect answers.
Order list
Enter a question, and a choice of multiple answers, for learners to rearrange into a specific order, according to the question.
The correct answer is the order you enter the choices in the question. The order will change for learners. Make sure your list is in the correct order when you write the question.
Match list
You enter an instruction and provide 2 lists for learners to match from one list to another: for example, matching capital cities to the correct countries, or planets to their moons.
To avoid common errors with this format:
· each answer must be a unique value. For example, if you have a question to match cities to countries and include Paris more than once in the answer options, you get an error
· for YES/NO questions, use the true/false question format
· for questions with more than 1 correct answer, use the multiple correct question format
Fill in the blanks
This question provides instructions in the CK Editor, to create a field for a missing word in a sentence. You provide the correct answer, and also the missing-word dropdown options.
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