Our graphic designers have come up with a really rather beautiful theme for the quiz. I just wanted to share it with you. This is from our test server, part way through an attempt at an interactive quiz, and showing one of our drag-and-drop questions.
I am tempted to add that way of showing correct / partially correct / incorrent into standard Moodle for version 2.2. I think it is better than what we have at the moment in the standard themes.
beautiful
IMPRESSIVE!! This kind of work gets me excited about things Moodle.
Lovely layout & cool colours!
Joseph
PS.- Will it eventually be made available to the moodle community?
Hello Orestes,
It means the question is flagged by the student. It's already here in the "normal" Moodle, see Docs
But this one is a lot more beautiful !!
Hi Tim,
please succumb to the temptation for 2.2
We will have to add a choice to the posts Rate : Beautiful !
Thumbs up for your graphic designers!
Bernard
hello Tim
thanks for sharing this here. Drag and drop questions are very often on the wishlists.
I'm a little bit undecided about the different visualizations for questions. A user should understand thedifferences without explanation. What different aspects are required?
But how is question 3 and 6 marked?
Ralf, you are wrong about several of thses, but I think that is only because you are looking at a static image. Of course, in reality you would see a naigation panel that starts blank and fills up as you do things, which makes all of it really obvious.
The think border is for the question(s) on the current page.
For finished questions, green with tick is correct, orange with dot is partially correct, and plain red is wrong (or no answer given).
The red triangle is for flagged questions. Again, this only appears for the first time when you choose to flag a question, so it should be obvious what its meaning is when it is used.
What is not shown here is that in deferred feedback mode, the bottom half of the question button goes dark grey when you answer that question, so in a deferred feedback quiz, you can see at a glance which questions have have answered.
Hi Tim,
that was exactly my intension. I think about different target groups (students in primary schools, not web experienced users) and the special situation during a quiz attempt. Student concentrate on the attempt and are a little nervous. Now they see the symbols. Are the symbols self explanatory? Is it possible to understand them without tool tips?
Ralf
Hi Ralf,
I think the best answer to that is to have plenty of "blank exam" practise so that the students can get used to the icons and their meanings, in a stress-less situation, before a real "exam situation".
Joseph
Good questions, Ralf. I expect all those "flags", shapes and colors have their own explanatory mouseover tooltips.
I think 2 and 6 have been marked ("flagged") by the student.
Maybe 3 is marked as "partially correct", orange being the color used for that type of student's answer.
Joseph
EDIT.- Well, Tim answered Ralf just as I was writing this message. I was about right.
This looks very nicly thought out. My only concerns are with the shadowing effect round the question area. Is this done using CSS3 or is the page made up of different images? If the latter then these can, and do sometimes have a tendancy to lose the achived look. Same goes for the question 'flags' what happens if you have more than questions, will they line up nicely in rows, or will they get stuck under the page?
Even so...nice job...I like it!
Mary
The drop shadow is part of the OU theme that I would not propose to add to any of the standard Moodle Themes. The drop-shadow was originally done using CSS3, but then we decided our theme did not look any good without it, so we (well sam marshall) re-did it using background images for the benefit of IE users. However, a lot of the other CSS3 effects, like the rounded cornders, we just do without on IE7 and 8.
If you have more questions, the navigation buttons wrap onto multiple lines.
It looks Awesome!
Congratulations Tim and Sam
It is a high quality work!!
Now I admire you more ;)
Tim,
I want to second the motion. This should certainly become part of the core 2.2.
In the meantime, is there any chance some of the more enthusiastic types among us could try to incorporate this into our 2.X installations?
Lev
Sure. It is just CSS. I will try to dig it out of our theme on Monday and post it here.
Sure Tim! it definetely be part of Moodle 2.2. It's a very nice looking theme for the Quiz
Hi Will this eye candy be available within Moodle 2.2 release? If not, where can i find the theme for this.
Thanks
Ali
Sadly, I never got time to add this to Moodle 2.2.
Shortly, we will be moving the OU code to the Moodle 2.2 release, at which point I will have to make sure that hte OU theme is still working. Hopefully, doing that will be a good opportunity to remind myself how this is done, and extract the code and add it to at least some of the standard Moodle themes, for Moodle 2.3.
