Modular exams or quizzes are assessments that would normally
be grouped into a single assessment, but instead is broken apart into multiple
smaller assessments. For example, if you have a final exam that has 90
questions, you could make it modular by dividing it into three modular exams of
30 questions each, meant to be taken at different times.
The first step to turning a normal assessment modular is to
copy your assessment the amount of times that you need to break it apart. In
this example the final exam has 100 questions and we are going to break it
apart into four different assessments.
The easiest way to do this is to click on the snowman icon
(three dots) to the right of the assessment, then click copy to, and send it to
your own course. This will create a copy, and you can duplicate as many times
as you need.
Important note: Only duplicate your assessment once. Then
when you have the duplicate created, use the most recent duplicate to create
the new one. See steps below
For example, I renamed the Final Exam duplicate to be
“Modular Final Exam (1-25).” I then duplicated Modular Final Exam (1-25), which
created a new duplicate of the same name. I renamed that to Modular Final Exam
(26-50).
When you’ve duplicated, renamed, duplicated, renamed, etc.
enough times to create four modular exams, you should put them into the correct
assignment group. I also deleted the Imported Assignments assignment group.
Now that the modular exams are created, you need to manually
remove the questions that do not belong. Click on the modular exam, then click
edit, then click questions to access the individual questions. In Modular Final
Exam (1-25) I removed questions 26-100. In Modular Final Exam (26-50) I removed
questions 1-25 and 51-100. Do that until all of the modular exams contain the
correct questions.
Next, you will want to make sure to assign the original
Final Exam and the modular exams to the correct students. In the following two
examples I assigned the original Final Exam to three students, and the modular
exam just to the remaining student. Make sure to save your work each step of
the way.
Once you have all of the questions set, and have determined
who you will assign each of the assessments to, you can publish your modular
quizzes.