⏱️ The Essentials in 3 Minutes |
🧠 Understand the Pedagogical Value
Configuring an exercise is not just about entering answer choices. Each option must be accompanied by feedback that explains why it is correct or incorrect. This feedback is what produces learning: without it, the learner knows whether they succeeded, but not why.
➕ Create an Exercise Granule
In your module, click "Add new content" and select the desired exercise type from: MCQ, Order, Categorize, Matrix, Interactive image, Open question.
💡 The exercise type can be changed after creation. Hover over the granule in the module view and click the 🔄 button displayed on the right to change the type.
To access the editor, hover over the granule and click "Edit exercise".
1. MCQ
The MCQ editor is organized in a single view with a real-time preview on the right.
Question: enter the question title in the designated field.
Answer choices: each choice has a text field, an "Add image" button, and a Feedback section. Check "Correct answer" on the right choice. Only one choice can be correct.
Feedback: for each choice, fill in two fields:
The first corresponds to the feedback displayed to the learner (e.g. "Correct!" for the right answer, or an explanatory message for a wrong answer).
The second (placeholder: "What would you say to a learner who made this choice?") is the AI feedback, used to personalize the response based on the learner's profile.
Add a choice: click "+ Add choice" at the bottom of the editor.
💡 In the preview, the correct answer is displayed in green and incorrect answers in orange once validated.
2. Order
The Order editor follows a two-step flow: Items & Positions, then Feedback.
Step 1: Items & Positions: enter the question, then add your items. Each item is associated with a position (Position 1, Position 2, etc.) corresponding to its place in the correct order. Use the ↑↓ arrows to reorganize positions. Each item can have an image added via "Add image". Click "+ Add item" to add elements.
Step 2: Feedback: write the feedback associated with correct and incorrect positions. Click "Next" to move between steps.
💡 In the preview, items are displayed numbered in their correct order.
3. Categorize
The Categorize editor follows a two-step flow: Categories & Items, then Positions & Feedback.
Step 1: Categories & Items: enter the question, then configure your categories. For each category, fill in its label (e.g. "True", "False") and add the items that belong to it. Each item can have an image added. Click "+ Add category" to create new ones.
Step 2: Positions & Feedback: define the display mode (one item at a time or all simultaneously) and write the feedback.
4. Matrix
The Matrix editor follows the same two-step flow as Categorize: Categories & Items, then Positions & Feedback. The configuration is identical.
The difference lies in the learner display: the Matrix presents categories as columns and items as rows, in a table format with radio buttons. This is the so-called "matching" format.
💡 Choose the Matrix when your categories need to be compared in parallel and the table format makes reading easier (e.g. True / False across several statements).
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