Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

Techniques for greater security

You should understand that the only way to make a test secure is to give the test on paper, separate the students far enough apart so that they can't see each other's papers, place a proctor in the room to observe the students, and use different questions for each group that takes the test. There is no way to make a web-based test completely cheat proof.

If you must absolutely give a web-based test that is resistant to cheating, consider these strategies:

• Create a very large number of questions, but have the quiz show only a small set of them; this makes sharing of questions less useful.
• Shuffle the questions and answers. This also makes sharing of questions more difficult.
• Apply a time limit. This makes using ...