Moodle – as the name suggests is Modular in nature. The Moodle plugins are one of the main reason behind the popularity of Moodle as an LMS. With the help of the Moodle plugins you can easily extend the Moodle functionality in all areas. The Moodle plugins directory contains more than 2000+ free to use plugins. In this post, we will see how you can use the Student Quiz plugin in Moodle.

The student quiz plugin enables students to collaboratively create their own question pools in Moodle. The best part is that the created questions become part of the Moodle question bank and can be reused in other Moodle quizzes. This can be a great help for a single teacher who is struggling to create questions on his own.

The advantage of student quiz plugin is that it allows a better learning experience because knowledge is actively constructed by the learner, not just passively received from the environment. And even if an individual student contributes a few questions only, a larger cohort can easily build up an extensive question pool.

As a teacher you can approve/disapprove questions, or hide or delete questions including:

• whether students’ names are displayed or kept anonymous.
• whether questions are published right away or have to be approved first.
• the number of points assigned to questions contributed and answers given.
• what user roles to exclude from participation.
• what questions types are allowed to be added to the pool.
• whether students are enforced to rate questions.
• whether students are enforced to comment questions.

You can also use the student quiz plugin as gamification technique with the ranking points earned based on the number of questions created. Using ranking points Student Quiz motivates students to deliver high quality questions and to improve their learning progress.

You can check out this quick video to get started with the Student quiz Moodle plugin:

Recently the plugin has been updated for Moodle 4.0 and is among the most popular Moodle plugins around. You should definitely give it a try to engage your students and get a question bank created easily for your Moodle course. You can download the latest version from the Moodle Plugins directory here.

What are the other good Moodle plugins which you should be using? Pl share with us in the comments section below.