Create a Multiple Choice Activity - OLI Torus

Create a Multiple Choice Activity

In This Article:
  1. Learn how to create a multiple choice activity to a project
  2. Learn how to add customizable answer choices to activities
Multiple choice questions are the most popular question type used at Torus. Only one answer out of the given selection is correct. Authors can add as many selections as they deem necessary. The correct answer is selected in the “Answer Key” tab.

Torus Terminology Quick Guide

OLI Torus uses common terminology in very specific ways. To clarify, here’s a quick guide for this article on the terms you may come across.
  1. Content and Question Blocks - Torus pages are organized by “blocks”, and blocks are used to house various content. These appear in the “Content Types” and “Question Types” menu. “Paragraph” blocks are the most referred to because they house text and images. “Blocks” will be identified by their type in knowledge base articles. Content type blocks host latent content, like text, images, videos, and more. Question type blocks host activities that students interact with, which instructors collect data from
  2. Activities - Activity is the term used to describe any interactive content, rather than using “questions” or “assignments” or “assessments”. Activities host question-and-answer content for students to interact with, which is a part of our “active learning” philosophy.

How to Add A Multiple Choice Block

Multiple choice activities can be added to both ungraded practice pages and graded pages. On a page, hover below the existing block (on a new page, this block will be a “Mixed” content block.” A bar with a “plus” sign should appear.
This bar will denote where content blocks begin and end, and where new ones can be added.
This menu shows all question types because all types are enabled in this project. Your project may have a different view if you did not enable advanced question types.
Selecting the “MCQ” icon adds a new block to the page.



Editing the Title: Torus does not currently have a unique naming convention for activities within courses. For purposes of data collection, insights, and data downloads, it is recommended that authors uniquely name each activity during course authoring and instructional design. These activity titles can be changed by selecting the “Edit Title” blue text bar next to the existing title, which will be “Multiple Choice” for all new multiple choice activities.

Tagging Learning Objectives

Each activity in an OLI Torus project should be tagged with a learning objective. For more information on creating, organizing, and mapping learning objectives, see Learning Objectives.

Editing Question and Answers

Entering Question Prompts

In the MCQ “Question” tab is where the student-facing questions and answers are posted. The “Question” box is where the question prompt is entered, and will render as the question in the activity.

Entering Answer Choices

Multiple choice questions automatically provide two spaces for answer choices. To add more options, select “add choice”. Torus MCQ activities allow for a minimum of two answer choices, with a maximum of seventeen choices. To remove a choice, click the “x” to the right of the input box.

Assigning an Answer

Answers within OLI Torus activities are housed in the “Answer Key Tab”. The answer choices from the “Question” tab will be displayed with a selection bubble to the left of each. Select the “correct” answer from the options. 
This specific interface is for the Multiple Choice Question type. Each basic question type will have variations in the answer tab, but relatively the same format.

Customizing Feedback

OLI Torus automatically provides “Correct” text for ‘correct’ answer options, and “Incorrect” text for ‘incorrect’ answer options. To change either, type or copy-and-paste new text into each respective box.

Targeted MCQ Feedback

OLI Torus allows for Targeted Feedback. Targeted Feedback is used to provide detailed feedback for a particular answer choice. The option to add Targeted Feedback is visible under the “Feedback for incorrect answers” box.

Adding targeted feedback is optional for every activity.
Select the Answer Choice to be further explained and type the authored targeted feedback in the input box provided.
Select any of the answer choices to explain why the student might have arrived at this answer.
Multiple targeted feedback options may be used to provide customized feedback for each of the answer options. To add more, select “Add targeted feedback” again.

Key Takeaways / Summary

To Summarize:
  1. To add a multiple choice block, prompt the “Question / Content Types” menu and select “MCQ”.
  2. The question input box is where the question prompt is hosted.
  3. Answer choices are input under the “Question” tab, and configured under the “Answer Key” tab.
  4. Feedback can be customized.
  5. Targeted Feedback provides individualized feedback for each answer choice.

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