Questions.md

Questions and Other Components

These are the types of questions that can be added to Problem Builder and Step Builder:

Free-form Questions

Free-form questions are represented by a Long Answer component.

Example screenshot before answering the question:

Screenshot after answering the question:

You can add Long Answer Recap components to problem builder blocks later on in the course to provide a read-only view of any answer that the student entered earlier.

The read-only answer is rendered as a quote in the LMS:

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Multiple Choice Questions can be added to a problem builder component and have the following configurable options:

• Question - The question to ask the student
• Message - A feedback message to display to the student after they have made their choice.
• Weight - The weight is used when computing total grade/score of the problem builder block. The larger the weight, the more influence this question will have on the grade. Value of zero means this question has no influence on the grade (float, defaults to 1).
• Correct Choice[s] - Specify which choice[s] are considered correct. If a student selects a choice that is not indicated as correct here, the student will get the question wrong.

Using the Studio editor, you can add Custom Choice blocks to an MCQ. Each Custom Choice represents one of the options from which students will choose their answer.

You can also add Tip entries. Each Tip must be configured to link it to one or more of the choices. If the student selects a choice, the tip will be displayed.

Screenshots

Before attempting to answer the questions:

While attempting to complete the questions:

After successfully completing the questions:

Rating Questions

When constructing questions where the student rates some topic on the scale from 1 to 5 (e.g. a Likert Scale), you can use the Rating question type, which includes built-in numbered choices from 1 to 5. The Low and High settings specify the text shown next to the lowest and highest valued choice.

Rating questions are a specialized type of MCQ, and the same instructions apply. You can also still add Custom Choice components if you want additional choices to be available such as "I don't know".

Multiple Response Questions (MRQs)

Multiple Response Questions are set up similarly to MCQs. The answers are rendered as checkboxes. Unlike MCQs where only a single answer can be selected, MRQs allow multiple answers to be selected at the same time.

MRQ questions have these configurable settings:

• Question - The question to ask the student
• Required Choices - For any choices selected here, if the student does not select that choice, they will lose marks.
• Ignored Choices - For any choices selected here, the student will always be considered correct whether they choose this choice or not.
• Message - A feedback message to display to the student after they have made their choice.
• Weight - The weight is used when computing total grade/score of the problem builder block. The larger the weight, the more influence this question will have on the grade. Value of zero means this question has no influence on the grade (float, defaults to 1).
• Hide Result - If set to True, the feedback icons next to each choice will not be displayed (This is False by default).

The Custom Choice and Tip components work the same way as they do when used with MCQs (see above).

Screenshots

Before attempting to answer the questions:

While attempting to answer the questions:

After clicking on the feedback icon next to the "Its bugs" answer:

After successfully completing the questions:

Completion Questions

Completion questions allow course authors to ask learners whether they completed an offline activity.

They have these configurable settings:

• Question - Mentions a specific activity and asks the student whether they completed it.
• Answer - Represents the answer that the student can (un-)check to indicate whether they completed the activity that the question mentions.

Learners can not get a completion question wrong; any answer is considered correct once the learner submits it.

Screenshots

Before submitting answer:

After submitting answer (leaving checkbox unchecked is a valid answer):

Other Components

Tables

Tables allow you to present answers to multiple free-form questions in a concise way. Once you create an Answer Recap Table inside a Mentoring component in Studio, you will be able to add columns to the table. Each column has an optional Header setting that you can use to add a header to that column. Each column can contain one or more Answer Recap elements, as well as HTML components.

Screenshot:

"Dashboard" Self-Assessment Summary Block

Instructions for using the "Dashboard" Self-Assessment Summary Block

Swipeable Binary Choice Question

The Swipeable Binary Choice Question is a block for creating a UI for selecting an answer by swiping left or right on a touch screen. It is currently in development, and is API-only with no usable interface available to users.

As such it needs to be manually enabled using the following steps:

1. Visit the Django Admin panel for X block configuration at {STUDIO_URL}/admin/xblock_django/xblockconfiguration/
2. Click "Add x block configuration"
3. Enter pb-swipe in the Name field, check Enabled and hit Save.

You should now see the "Swipeable Binary Choice Question" component as an option in Problem Builder.