Articulate Quiz Template

Installing Articulate Quizmaker2

Demo software can be downloaded from http://www.articulate.com

Preparing of an Articulate Quiz

Typical Length

For each Lecture (typically 20 plus slides) we need to prepare 30-40 questions. A MINIMUM of 30 Questions will be required for this amount of presentation. For each quiz we will asked 10 questions and expect an 80% pass rate.

A video is considered to be the same length as a lecture (about 50 mins to one hour) and hence also 30-40 questions. Instructional designers argue for rather more questions at a ratio of 10 questions in the bank to each one asked. Creativity is a really important ingredient for doing quizzes.

Each year we will add questions. After a couple of course presentations we should aim for 50 questions per lecture.

All questions must eventually have a unique graphic. It will be best just keep a list of websites for where the graphics were found. I am going to subscribe to an image service to download photo heads for quizzes like scientific writing where there is no obvious graphic to use.

Question Types

True/False are generally best avoided and no more than 20% should be included.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) should not exceed 40% when combined with true/false questions. Consequently out of 40 questions a maximum of 16 will fall in this category.

There are variety of other types of question types, explore how these could be deployed. I like the hot spot approach where you can deliberately include and error or something that does not belong. Students then click on where the problem exists.

Multiple response questions are really tricky so best have no more than 25% allocated to these.

Matching by drag and dropping adds almost a game approach but can really test knowledge.

When preparing “Fill in the Blank” makes sure include singular and plural and also hyphenated and non hyphenated answer. These questions are quite difficult and therefore the Word Banks is an easier means to the same end. The “Fill in the Blank” does test precision in spelling which is important. When filling in a numeric ensure that large numbers have a reasonable range of values so as to accopmodate more than one person’s point of view. If you want a very precise numbers in these questions, indicate the source for the statistic to prevent ambiguity.

Allocating of Marks

The allocation of marks is fairly critical.

True/False questions should get only 1 mark. The person being tested has a 50% chance of getting the question right by guessing.Multiple choice, word bank, fill in the blank, numeric and hotspot questions are worth 2 marks.Multiple response, matching and sequencing questions are worth 4 or 5 marks.

A kind word of advice

When developing questions avoid repeating yourself. Change the style of presentation to prevent the quizzes becoming tedious.

Generally avoid asking precise figures. Where chronology is important get the quiz-taker to put dates into a sequence. Knowledge structure show better comprehension than knowledge of isolated events. For example in the “evolution of humans” arrange the following hominids in order of increasing brain size. Otherwise ask figures to be matched to event or items.

Quizzes need several iterations and revisions, before they can be deployed. In setting a question it is best to get somebody else to review. Developing electronic questions is a little more difficult. Do not expect to prepare a complete question in only a couple of hours.

Front page Image

Use the following image to keep our NISL courses similar to each other.

Image can be found at http://planet.uwc.ac.za/nisl/NISL_templates/quiz/images

Making the Colour Template

In Articulate Quiz Maker select Edit and then Colour and Effects

The following first part of the Dialogue box will appear, the colours will need to be change using the palette

Main Colours

Use the icon represented by … to – this will give the following dialogue box.For each colour item you change the Red, Green, and Blue values which are expressed between 0 and 255.

Background colour: Red: 255, Green: 255 and Blue: 255.

Border colour: Red: 255, Green: 255 and Blue: 255.

Text colour: Red: 108, Green: 81 and Blue: 4.

Correct colour: Red: 132, Green: 132 and Blue: 66.

Incorrect colour: Red: 176, Green: 0 and Blue: 0.

Neutral colour: Red: 81, Green: 101 and Blue: 155.

Mouse-over colour: Red: 155, Green: 185 and Blue: 183.

You will now need to scroll down to get to the bottom of the Dialogue Box

Timer Colours

Elapsed time colour: Red: 170, Green: 0 and Blue: 21.

Remaining time colour: Red: 106, Green: 106 and Blue: 53.

Border colour: Red: 165, Green: 165 and Blue: 165.

Likert Scale Tooltip Colours Background colour: Red: 255, Green: 255 and Blue: 255.

Border colour: Red: 255, Green: 255 and Blue: 255.

Text colour: Red: 108, Green: 81 and Blue: 4.

Effects

Animation Effects: Full

Question Transition Style: Fade

Sound Effects: Enable

Quiz Properties

Quiz Info

Quiz Title: BCB706 Conservation Biology: Chapter 2 - Habitat loss and fragmentation

Tick Display Instructions Screen

Format:

These questions pertain to the BCB706: Conservation Biology Course – Chapter 2. This chapter deals with Threats to Biological Diversity 1: Habitat Loss and Fragmentation.

You have 10 minutes to complete 10 questions.

In the Display Image, use the … Icon to navigate to your locally saved version of the file ecology_info_logo_sideways.jpg. For example I have it save at C:\Download\NISL\ecology_info_logo_sideways.jpg.

Passing Score: Set to 80%

Tick the box to End the quiz after 10 minutes (assuming you provide 10 questions). Work on ONE minute per question.

Tick on the box to Display the Timer

Tick on the box to randomize questions

Set the number of questions to ask to 10 or 5, depending on amount of content present. Ten questions per hour of delivery is typical. You will need set between 3 to 4 times the numbers of question in the data banks that you asked.

Quiz Settings

Quiz Defaults

Question Feedback

Results

You have now set all of your environmental variables up. Now select the OK button at the bottom. This will apply all of the information in the dialogue box that you have supplied.

Publishing

Simply select the publish Icon at the top (last icon) and publish for Web. Note it is possible to also save as a Word file. This is useful in case where on-line facilities are not available. After saving to a Word document be prepared for a fair bit of post-editing. You will need supply the directory structure where you want to save the file to. You can tick the zip files if you wish to send this to a colleague as an email attachment.

Notes on saving your Quizzes so that they can be edited at a latter stage

Unless you change it Articulate Quiz Maker will save in My Documents. Please remember that if you logged in using Administration the directory will something like this…

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Articulate Quizmaker Quizzes

File Naming

Ensure that the course code, chapter and description are capture in the file name. To illustrate for the Conservation Biology Course Chapter 2 quizzes the file could be called…

BCB706_Chp_2_Habitat_los_frag.aqm

Note that when saving the file a Media Folder is also made. Consequently your folder structure will look like the following.