MEC Course Design & Content Creation 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: An instructor wants students to see Activity B only after they score at least 70% on Activity A. Which Moodle feature should they configure?
- Course completion settings
- Activity completion conditions
- Restrict access conditions (Correct answer)
- Grade pass settings
Correct answer: Restrict access conditions
Restrict Access conditions let you gate an activity behind another activity's completion or grade, controlling when students can see or interact with it.
Question 2: When an instructor sets the 'Visible groups' grouping mode on a Moodle activity, what is the result?
- Students can only see and interact with their own group's work, with other groups hidden
- Students can see all groups' work but only submit within their own group (Correct answer)
- The activity is visible only to the teacher and not to students
- Groups are ignored and all students interact together
Correct answer: Students can see all groups' work but only submit within their own group
In Visible groups mode, students work within their assigned group but can view the submissions and discussions of other groups.
Question 3: What is the role of a Moodle 'Course Summary File' when set in course settings?
- It becomes the course background image on the course page
- It appears as a thumbnail or attachment in the course catalog/listing (Correct answer)
- It is automatically emailed to new enrollees
- It locks the course from further editing until reviewed
Correct answer: It appears as a thumbnail or attachment in the course catalog/listing
The course summary file (typically an image) is displayed alongside the course name in site-wide course listings and the course catalog.
Question 4: Which Moodle resource lets an instructor present a sequence of web pages with optional navigation buttons and a grade for completion?
- Book
- Lesson (Correct answer)
- SCORM package
- IMS content package
Correct answer: Lesson
The Lesson module delivers content as a sequence of pages and can branch based on student answers, optionally producing a grade.
Question 5: In Moodle, which file format is BEST suited for packaging externally authored e-learning content that tracks completion and scores back to the LMS?
- SCORM 1.2 or 2004 package (Correct answer)
- HTML file uploaded as a resource
- YouTube embed via URL
Correct answer: SCORM 1.2 or 2004 package
SCORM packages communicate completion status and scores to Moodle via the SCORM API, enabling full LMS tracking.
Question 6: A Moodle course uses the 'Weekly' format. What distinguishes this format from the Topics format?
- Weekly format supports completion tracking; Topics format does not
- Sections in Weekly format are labeled with specific calendar date ranges (Correct answer)
- Weekly format only shows one section at a time to reduce cognitive load
- Topics format allows unlimited sections while Weekly is capped at 52
Correct answer: Sections in Weekly format are labeled with specific calendar date ranges
The Weekly format automatically labels each section with a date range based on the course start date, making it ideal for time-structured courses.
Question 7: What happens when a Moodle instructor clicks 'Duplicate' on an existing activity within a course?
- The activity is copied to a new course chosen by the instructor
- An identical copy of the activity is created in the same course section (Correct answer)
- The activity settings are exported as a backup file
- Students' grades from the original are transferred to the duplicate
Correct answer: An identical copy of the activity is created in the same course section
Duplicating an activity creates an exact copy of it, including all settings, in the same section so the instructor can modify it independently.
MEC Course Design & Content Creation 3
An instructor wants students to see Activity B only after they score at least 70% on Activity A.
Which Moodle feature should they configure?