Guidelines for Quiz

Hi Kim,

Yes I have.  I've used the descriptions that can be found here: http://www.articulate.com/support/quizmaker09/?cat=65  

Hope this helps,

Heidi

Kim,

This may not be want you want to hear, but I've found that writing good assessment questions is hard for SMEs.... heck it's hard for ID's too right?

So an alternative is this...

• Have your SMEs provide you with the topics to be tested on
• Have your SMEs provide at least one correct and one commonly wrong answer (yes you will need more but that can wait)
• YOU decide what form the question is best suited to (matching, T/F, etc)
• Put it back in front of the SMEs for tweaking (and additional incorrect answers)

Good luck and hope this helps,

Bob

Hi,

Thank you Heidi for the link - that will definitely help.

And thank you Bob - yes, I think in the long run you're probably right. But the experts also always seem to think along the same lines as well and I always seem to end up with something suitable for multiple responses as they don't realise there are possibilities for sequencing, etc. I'll need to put in more work learning about the quiz and seeing whether I can at least change the look for this by using drag & drop etc.

Thank you both for your quick help,

Kim

Kim,

How about if you provide your SMEs with a template of question types: multiple choice, T/F, sequence, match, fill-in-the blank, and hotspot that they can use to provide you with the Q/A content. Then, create a demo quiz to present creative ways to interpret these questions.  There are wonderful tutorials on this site showing how to simulate multiple hotspots, use images on drag-and-drop, show multiple zoomed images on one slide, use Multiple Response to simulate a table of True/False, use Sequence drag/drop questions to match items, etc.

This way, you make it easy for your SMEs to come up with Q/A in different question formats but you have the creativity to  decide which QM question type will work the best. For example, they only need to know that matching a max of 10 pairs is an option; you choose whether it would be best to do a matching drag-and-drop,  matching drop-down or sequencing drag/drop.

That's a really great idea. Thank - I'll try that!