MEC Assessment & Feedback Methods 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In Moodle's Quiz activity, what does the 'Deferred feedback' behavior mean?
- Students see correct answers immediately after each question
- Students receive all feedback only after submitting the entire quiz (Correct answer)
- Feedback is emailed to students 24 hours after submission
- The instructor manually releases feedback at a chosen time
Correct answer: Students receive all feedback only after submitting the entire quiz
Deferred feedback holds all question feedback until the student submits the whole quiz attempt.
Question 2: Which Moodle grade aggregation method is MOST affected by a single very low score?
- Mean of grades
- Median of grades
- Minimum grade (Correct answer)
- Weighted mean of grades
Correct answer: Minimum grade
The Minimum grade aggregation returns only the lowest single score, making it most sensitive to any poor performance.
Question 3: A Moodle instructor wants students to resubmit an Assignment without losing the original submission record. Which setting enables this?
- Submission comments
- Attempts reopened: Manually (Correct answer)
- Blind marking
- Group submission
Correct answer: Attempts reopened: Manually
Setting 'Attempts reopened' to Manually lets the instructor reopen a submission so the student can resubmit while the original attempt is retained in the history.
Question 4: What is the primary purpose of Moodle's 'Scales' feature in grading?
- To convert percentage grades to letter grades automatically
- To allow non-numerical, custom rating systems such as words or phrases (Correct answer)
- To weight individual quiz questions differently
- To set the maximum grade for an entire course
Correct answer: To allow non-numerical, custom rating systems such as words or phrases
Scales let instructors define custom qualitative ratings (e.g., 'Needs Improvement / Satisfactory / Excellent') instead of numeric scores.
Question 5: Which Moodle question type is best suited for evaluating a student's ability to sequence steps in a process?
- Multiple choice
- Matching
- Drag and drop onto text
- Ordering (drag-and-drop ordering) (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Ordering (drag-and-drop ordering)
The Ordering question type requires students to arrange items in the correct sequence, directly assessing procedural knowledge.
Question 6: In Moodle's Rubric grading form, what happens when the instructor does NOT select any criterion level for a student?
- The criterion receives the maximum score by default
- The criterion score defaults to zero (Correct answer)
- The rubric cannot be saved until all criteria are scored
- The student is notified to appeal the grade
Correct answer: The criterion score defaults to zero
Unscored rubric criteria default to zero points, which can significantly reduce a student's overall grade.
Question 7: A teacher enables 'Inline comments' in the Assignment feedback types. What does this allow?
- Students to comment on each other's submissions
- The teacher to annotate directly on the submitted PDF or document (Correct answer)
- Moodle to auto-generate AI feedback on submissions
- Peer reviewers to leave time-stamped audio notes
Correct answer: The teacher to annotate directly on the submitted PDF or document
Inline comments let the grader add annotations directly on the student's submitted file using Moodle's PDF annotation tool.
MEC Assessment & Feedback Methods 2
In Moodle's Quiz activity, what does the 'Deferred feedback' behavior mean?