Question types

The following table explains the types of questions you can create and gives some tips on using them. These question types are included in the default installation of Moodle. You can obtain plugins from https://moodle.org. These plugins add more question types to your system:

Type of question

Description and tips for using them

Calculated simple

When you create a calculated question, you enter a formula that gets displayed in the text of the question. The formula can contain one or more wildcards. These wildcards are replaced with numbers when the quiz is run. Wildcards are enclosed in curly brackets.

For example, if you type the question What is 3 * {a}?, Moodle will replace {a} with a random number. You can ...

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