Enter the text of your question (i.e. What is your favorite color?) in the Question Text box. You can optionally enter a Question Name for this question.
The Question Name is only used when you export responses to CSV/Excel format. If you never export to CVS, then you needn't worry about the Question names at all. If you plan to regularly export your portfolio data to CVS, then you have a choice of two options for question naming.
In the Question Name box, enter meaningful, short and different question names for all of the questions within one portfolio. In the CSV export file, all those question names will be prefixed with the question's actual number (= position) in the quiz. Examples
question number in the portfolio | question name entered by teacher | field header in csv export |
---|---|---|
5 | favorite colors | Q05_favorite colors |
6 | why_use_Moodle | Q06_why_use_moodle |
7 | user-friendliness (rate question with 3 possible answers: Moodle, WebCT and Blackboard | Q07_user-friendliness->Moodle |
For each un-named question, CSV export will automatically generate a question name. This is required for table header fields in the CSV and subsequent Excel tables or any statistics package you might be using. The question name generated will be based on the question number in the actual Quiz (excluding Section Text pseudo-questions, of course) e.g. Q01, Q02, ... Q99. For questions with multiple answers, such as rate-type or Likert type questions, a sub-question number will be generated (Q02_1, Q02_2, Q02_3, etc.). This type of "short-name" naming scheme is advisable for exporting your data to a statistics software. Of course, it's up to you to have your own system for remembering which abbreviated question name corresponds to which question in your portfolio!
question number in the portfolio | question name entered by teacher | field header in csv export |
---|---|---|
5 | Q05 | |
6 | Q06 | |
7 | Q07_1 |
It is quite possible (but not advisable) to mix the two systems, and have within one portfolio both named and un-named questions.