MEC Student Engagement & Collaboration Tools 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Moodle feature allows a teacher to embed a BigBlueButton (or other virtual classroom) session directly within a course?
- External tool (LTI) activity (Correct answer)
- SCORM package
- IMS content package
- URL resource with embed option
Correct answer: External tool (LTI) activity
The External Tool (LTI) activity integrates third-party tools like BigBlueButton into Moodle courses using the LTI standard.
Question 2: In a Moodle Workshop, what happens during the 'Assessment phase'?
- Students submit their work
- Students evaluate each other's submissions using teacher-defined criteria (Correct answer)
- The teacher grades all submitted work
- Students revise work based on teacher feedback
Correct answer: Students evaluate each other's submissions using teacher-defined criteria
During the Assessment phase, students review and grade their peers' submissions according to the criteria set by the teacher.
Question 3: A Moodle teacher wants to create a structured debate where two student groups post arguments in sequence. Which activity best supports this?
- Database activity
- Forum with Q&A format (Correct answer)
- Wiki with section locking
- Forum in blog-like format
Correct answer: Forum with Q&A format
The Q&A forum format requires students to post their own response before seeing others', making it useful for structured debate.
Question 4: What is the role of 'Subscription mode' in a Moodle forum set to 'Optional subscription'?
- Students must request teacher permission to post
- Students choose whether to receive email notifications for the forum (Correct answer)
- The teacher subscribes individually selected students
- Forum posts are hidden until the teacher approves them
Correct answer: Students choose whether to receive email notifications for the forum
Optional subscription means students can independently decide whether to receive email notifications for new forum posts.
Question 5: Which Moodle collaborative tool tracks version history so students can see what changes were made and by whom?
- Database activity
- Lesson module
- Wiki (Correct answer)
- Glossary
Correct answer: Wiki
Moodle's Wiki maintains a full version history, showing each edit along with the student who made it.
Question 6: A teacher sets a forum's 'Display word count' to 'Yes.' What effect does this have?
- It enforces a minimum word count before allowing submission
- It shows the word count below each student post (Correct answer)
- It alerts the teacher if posts exceed the maximum
- It displays the total words in the entire forum thread
Correct answer: It shows the word count below each student post
Enabling 'Display word count' shows each post's word count to readers, encouraging more substantive contributions.
Question 7: Which Moodle activity is specifically designed to gather structured feedback from students about a course (not graded)?
- Quiz
- Feedback (Correct answer)
- Assignment
- Questionnaire (plugin)
Correct answer: Feedback
The Feedback module collects non-graded responses from students and is commonly used for course evaluation surveys.
MEC Student Engagement & Collaboration Tools 3
Which Moodle feature allows a teacher to embed a BigBlueButton (or other virtual classroom) session directly within a course?