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Moodle Educators – Use Formulas question type for STEM exam in Moodle

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Moodle Educators – Use Formulas question type for STEM exam in Moodle
Moodle Educators - Use Formulas question type for STEM exam in Moodle

Moodle – world’s most popular open source allows you to customize it to cater for all industry requirements. Moodlers around the world uses Moodle for schools, universities and corporate sector online learning platform. Similarly to teach specialized subjects Moodle is having its own tools and plugins e.g. for mathematics we have the Formulas Question type plugin.

The Formulas Question type allows you to create Moodle quiz questions to cater the requirements for Mathematics, Physics and other STEM exams. You can create questions involving various answer structures such as coordinate, polynomial, matrix, etc. Other features such as unit checking and multiple parts are also available.

The formulas question type also allows you to set random values in the question which means each student can receive questions with unique values and wording. It can also handle the units using a built-in conversion rule.

You can download the formulas question type from the Moodle plugins directory here. If you want to understand how to install a Moodle plugin, please follow this beginners guide. Once installed you can start using it without any major configuration steps.

Please watch this video to get started with the Formulas Question type Moodle plugin:

The plugin is supported for all major Moodle versions. The answer fields can be placed anywhere in the question so that we can create questions involving various answer structures such as coordinate, polynomial and matrix.

What are other Moodle plugins which you are using for STEM teaching? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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