Creating a Formative Assessment

Formative assessments are a powerful way to engage learners and evaluate their knowledge as they learn. With Dual Code's platform, you can use the AI Question Generator tool to create formative assessments that help learners retain information while giving them immediate feedback. Here's how to create one, followed by steps to build a quiz using this tool.

Step-by-step Guide

To create a formative assessment, you must first create a list of questions:

Once the questions are created, you can insert them in a quiz:

1. Go to the course in question

2. Turn editing on (if it is not turned on already)

3. Click on the "Add an activity or resource" hyperlink 

4. Click on the Quiz activity icon

5. Fill out the form using the following options:

   1. Under the “General” section, specify a “Name” for the quiz. You may simply call it “Quiz” or “Formative Assessment”, or may give is a more creative name if you wish.

   2. Under the “Timing” section, we recommend that you don’t set a time limit since you want the learners to take as much time as they want to learn.

   3. Under the “Grade” section, you will most likely want to set the “Grading method” to “last attempt”, keeping in mind that learners may want to repeat the quiz multiple times.

   4. Under the “Layout” section, we recommend “New page” be set to “Every question”. By doing so, the user will be required to answer one question at a time, and review the feedback before proceeding to the next question. This will give them more time to absorb the feedback and learn from it instead of moving through the quiz too quickly.

   5. Under the “Question behaviour” section, “How questions behave” should be set to “Adaptive mode” or “Adaptive mode (no penalities)”. This option allows learners to get immediate feedback on their answer and if they do not get it right, they can try again, perhpas for fewer marks.

   6. Under the “Review options” section, make sure that during the attempt, the “Whether correct” and “Specific feedback” options are enabled. These are the options that will allow a user to learn from their mistakes.

   7. Under the “Overall feedback” section, you may want to set the boundaries, unless you require that the learners get 100%.

   8. Under the “Activity completion” section, the only option you will want is “Student must receive a grade to complete this activity” and “Student must receive a passing grade to complete this activity”. You can disable all the other options.

6. Click on the “Save and display” button at the bottom of the page.

Once your quiz shell is created, you can add the questions you created earlier to the quiz.

1. Click on the “Add question” button.

2. Click on the “Add” dropdown menu on the right side of the screen and select “a random question”

3. Specify how many questions you would like to add, and if your questions are organized by category, select the category.

4. Click on the “Add selected questions to the quiz”.