Moodle Help Guide

Knowledge Check Assessments

You can place assessment questions throughout different types of content in Lessons. These formative assessment items are gradable.

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(Setting up a question directly after content)

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Once you fill in the information for all the choices in the question, you will click Save.

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(Continue to build your Lesson)

The Expanded view of our lesson shows a page of content followed by a question. You can use the expanded view to build your lesson out further. 

Adding Clusters

Clusters are groups of pages within a lesson. A cluster typically contains question pages that are presented randomly to each student.

Note. If you’re okay with learners seeing each question page in the same order, you do NOT need cluster.

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(Back to the Collapsed view of the Lesson.)

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You can continue to build your lesson by adding a new content page directly below the lesson.

Tips for creating a branching scenario

• Ask yourself what you want learners to do differently after completing the branching activity, then work backward, developing obstacles and questions throughout the process.
•  Use realistic scenarios. Think deeply about a real-life experience you’ve learned from, and work to record those situations in a branching activity.
• Try developing your branching scenario using a flowchart. In your flowchart, map each branch, content, and question. You can sketch out a flow chart on pen and paper or use one of the existing online tools.
• Use a three-act structure when developing your learning scenarios. A three-act structure has a Setup, Confrontation, and Resolution. This structure can be used to create small branching scenarios, or you can use a series of three-act structures to create a large branching scenario with multiple confrontations and resolutions.  
  • Setup: Model the real world where the scenario will take place. You can use images, descriptions, audio, and video to help set this up.
  • Confrontation: The learner encounters a problem. This problem should be focused on a teaching point or objective. To resolve the problem, the learner can answer questions that can lead to different outcomes.
  • Resolution – each confrontation will have a series of resolutions that will lead to a conclusion.

Read more about the effectiveness of branching scenarios

Branching Scenarios: What you Need to Know – this is a comprehensive deep dive into branching scenarios from elearningindustry.com (Snegirev, 2016).

What to Write First in a Branching Scenario – Learning Experience Designer Christy Tucker describes how to develop your first decision or confrontation in your branching scenario. Christy Tucker has several other meaningful guides on branching scenarios that are worth a read (Tucker, 2020).

Implementing Branching Scenarios to Boost Learning Effectiveness—This is a helpful overview of how to develop a branching scenario. It also includes ways to incorporate gamification into the activity (e-learning.company, n.d.).

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