Tag: checkbox

  • Tutorial 11: Question Types

    I spotted a conversation between Dave and Dafydd over on the SchoolHistory.co.uk forum, about question types in quizzes. These guys are two of Yacapaca’s most prolific authors, so if they don’t know, we have clearly not got the message across. So for reference, here’s the complete list. Bookmark it now for future reference!   The…

  • Here is a question from our database, with one of its distractors (incorrect answers), and a feedback statement written by a student: Question Distractor Feedback statement written by student Which one of the following is not a network topology? Bus Bus is not a network topology. Do you see the problem? ‘Bus’ is indeed a…

  • Checkbox questions (aka “choose-n”) are our second most-popular question type. They are simple and versatile, and you can often replace a whole list of choose-1 questions with a simple choose-n. They also contain a few booby-traps for the

  • John Davies from Kings School in Gütersloh asked me today about the scoring for Checkbox questions. It’s not obvious because the colour-coding in the Detail markbook is simply red or green, leading one to assume that a question would score a simple 1 or 0. But not so. A Checkbox can return a partial mark.…