A Multiple choice question in Lesson offers a user a list of answers to select. Generally, the user must select the one correct answer. There is a checkbox option to create a multianswer question, where the user must select all the correct answers.
- Note: Quiz multiple choice and “multiple answers allowed” question types look the same to users but are slightly different from a user’s view in “customize this page” mode on.
Overview of Multiple choice questions
“Multiple choices” is the default question type in Lesson. They are popular question types where the user is asked to choose one answer from a set of alternatives. Generally, the correct answer takes the user further into the lesson, the wrong answers do not. The wrong answers are sometimes called the distractors and the utility of these questions often rely more on the quality of the distractors than either the questions themselves or their correct answers.
Here is a question presented in the lesson End of Branches 102. Quiz questions will look the same from the user view.
Each answer given by the user can optionally have a response given by the instructor. If no response is entered for an answer then the default response “That’s the Correct Answer” or “That’s the Wrong Answer” is shown to the user. In LMS, after the user answers a lesson question, they are shown the question and the response.
Each answer can send the user to a different page in the lesson, similar to a Content page (Branch Table page). Thus a user who selects the 2nd answer can go to one page, but a user who selects the 4th answer will go to a different page.
Multianswer in a Lesson
When in edit mode, the multianswer question in a Lesson looks like a multiple choice question. The goal is for the user to select EVERY correct answer.
- The correct answers must be the first answers listed in edit mode and the wrong answer follow.
- All jumps, scores and instructor responses must be the same for right answers. All jumps, scores and instructor responses must be the same for wrong answers must be the same.
This is very different from a quiz module multiple answers allowed the question. Partial credit is never given to a Lesson multianswer question. The user either selects just the correct answers to receive the correct score or Lesson scores any other combination of answers as being answered wrong.
Multianswer question, edit mode, expanded view.
See also
- Editing Lesson Multiple choice on Editing question pages in the Lesson module.
- Quiz Multiple Choice question type gives instructions for creating this in the Question bank module.