The quiz module allows the teacher a large range of options when setting up a quiz. This is generally a good thing but has the drawback of making the setup screen look a bit intimidating. Many of the options are not needed in our teaching environment. I have therefore given the quiz module a site-wide configuration page where the administrator can choose defaults for the quiz settings and can also decide to fix these default settings for all new quizzes, so that the teachers are no longer shown the corresponding entries on the quiz setup page. I will now commit the code to Moodle 1.5dev.
The ability to choose the defaults for all quizzes would be great, thank you!
I strongly don't agree options should be completely hidden though. It could be very confusing for people moving from one Moodle to another.
This would be better done in a way consistent with the new resource pages, under hidden sections that can be accessed when needed.
I strongly don't agree options should be completely hidden though. It could be very confusing for people moving from one Moodle to another.
This would be better done in a way consistent with the new resource pages, under hidden sections that can be accessed when needed.
Yes, I was thinking the same that there should be a button for the teacher to see all options. Given your feedback I will now implement that.
Wonderful, Gustav!
By the way, here is a small detail that could be fixed in the interface. In Moodle teaching training workshops that I lead, every teacher immediately hits the button, "Create Multiple Questions", and to their confusion, a mass of random questions appears which have to be manually deleted. They assumed, like me, that was the right thing to do since they wanted to create a quiz with many questions.
Could we move that button to a less prominant position and change the wording to something like, "create random questions", with ??help circle nearby explaining this function (which I still don't understand)
Thanks.
By the way, here is a small detail that could be fixed in the interface. In Moodle teaching training workshops that I lead, every teacher immediately hits the button, "Create Multiple Questions", and to their confusion, a mass of random questions appears which have to be manually deleted. They assumed, like me, that was the right thing to do since they wanted to create a quiz with many questions.
Could we move that button to a less prominant position and change the wording to something like, "create random questions", with ??help circle nearby explaining this function (which I still don't understand)
Originally (early 2003) this button was going to lead to a much more comprehensive interface where all sorts of quick ways of generating questions were going to be.
It never happened though, which is why it looks a little strange now. I agree with your suggested changes.
It never happened though, which is why it looks a little strange now. I agree with your suggested changes.
Because Martin agrees with Don's suggested change I will go ahead and implement it.