Moodle LMS offers one of the most powerful way to organize the online exams. You can use Moodle’s inbuilt question types to create online quiz to cover all types of exam questions. In addition there are numerous Moodle plugins in the official repository which can be used to extend the Question types. In this post we will cover the Word Select question type and how you can use it.
The word select question type Moodle plugin allows you to create simple questions where the students just need to select the correct answer in the given piece of text. Based on the selected response (correct, incorrect or partially correct) the plugin will award the marks.
The Word Select Moodle plugin can be used to create many innovative question in your Moodle quiz. You can use it to create crossword type questions, matching questions or simple language comprehension testing questions.
You can download the Word Select Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here. After installing, creating a Word Select question is pretty simple. All you need to do is to have braces around the text which you want the students to select.
In multi-word format, the correct answer needs to be in double braces while the other selectable answers can be in single braces. You can also create nicely formatted matching questions as mentioned in the plugin documentation here.
The plugin also support the Moodle mobile app so you can use the Word Select questions on mobile devices also.
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