Generally speaking you can’t use online quizzes for significant summative grading because you can’t take reasonable steps to ensure cheating doesn’t occur.

The features described below don’t change this but we do have a few people using Blackboard quizzes for invigilated mid semester tests located in computer labs.  For those people Moodle has some useful tricks.

If you upload a class list that contains student photos (we should be able to do this but I haven’t checked it yet) you can choose to have the student photo displayed on the quiz screen so you can see if someone has brought in a ringer to sit for them.

Quiz display photo

Moodle also has a quiz setting that limits a students ability to access other parts of the computer and prevents cut and paste.  This should prevent most quick and sneaking cheating attempts.  I suspect a tech savvy student could probably figure out a work around, but in an invigilated setting it probably wouldn’t be worth the risk.

Quiz browser security