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I don't think there is any urgency to add these to Moodle core. That is a committment for me, or whoever succeeds me as quiz maintainer, to maintain them essentially forever.

Before taking that step, we need lots of pople to download and install them and try them out, and to prove that they work in all circumstances and don't have any significant bugs.

Many other key modules (certificate, book, ouwiki, forumng, ...) have 'cooked' in contrib for many years, and proved their popularity, before there was serious talk of adding them to core.

Also, David Mudrak is currently working on some admin interfaces to make it easier for admins to manage the plugins they have installed from contrib. That is another important development, that reduces the pressure to add things to the standard Moodle release prematurely.

In the Tracker in the contrib project. There aren't separate components for each type yet, but you can use Question type: {none of the above}, since those come to me by default.

Working through these and they look v. good.

I noticed that it's possible to vary the number of attempts possible on a question by question basis in the sample quiz. I've missed that option, can someone point me to it? Thanks.

They require Moodle 2.1 or later.

Jamie already talked to me about this, and I am very happy to see other people adding to the question types we released so soon.

We will include the new code in the ddmarker release.

Hi Ali,

In reply to my query re where to post bug reports, improvements, etc. about the "new OU question types", On Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 12:13 PM, Tim Hunt replied:

"In the Tracker in the contrib project. There aren't separate components for each type yet, but you can use Question type: {none of the above}, since those come to me by default."

May I suggest you post your request re the "drag and drop markers" question type in the Tracker.

Joseph

PS.- By the way, Tim, I have had no reaction so far to my reports about the new quesiton types in the tracker.

I too would be interested in adding drag/drop zones to the set up for DDmarker.  I see Ali has this in the tracker as CONTRIB-3502.  My teachers tried out the question at a recent workshop, and adding the coordinates was difficult for them.

Rob

Bugs in these third-party question types need to be moved to the CONTRIB area in the tracker. I moved that bug report to CONTRIB-3551

Yes, that was quite well hidden: http://labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=470268&section=5.2.2

In case there isn't a solution for this problem, I've figured out a workaround. Just ask learners to order the words alphabetically. That way, They should all go to the desginated zones.

Which particular question type are you using here?

I think the answer is that you cannot do what you want with ddimageortext. You can do something close to, but not exactly, what you want with ddmarker.

You could just make the table smaller, so it is only high enough for one word!

We know they don't work, and it is on our todo list.

Actually, we tried to fix it before, quite a while ago, but at the time, browser's handling of 'touch' events was not reliable. We think it will now be possible to make this work if we get time to try again, but I don't know when that will be.

I would not try to put multimedia in the drag boxes. Instead, I suggest writing questin text like:

Clip 1: [ media player here ]

Clip 2: [ media player here ]

Clip 3: [ media player here ]

And then making drag boxes with the words Clip 1, Clip 2, etc.

Do these new question types work with 2.3.1?

Tried but had issue with the version requirements.

Hi Alaa,

You have posted exactly the same question in two different discussion threads on the Quiz forum. This goes against the netiquette rules, and is totally unproductive.

No cross-posting, please!

Joseph

Doing that would require a new question type. It is certainly possible to do. We have had it in another system at the OU for years: http://www.open.ac.uk/openmarkexamples/p5_3.shtml. These days, using HTML 5, you could probably do even better than that.

But, someone would have to take up the challenge and make the question type.

The answer is "mostly yes".

The question types have been developed following the best practices. E.g. labels for input elements, keyboard equivalents for anything you can do with the mouse. They have been tested with screen-readers, screen magnifiers, voice recognition input, etc.

The mostly is because:

• some of these question types involve tasks that are inherently visual. E.g. draw a molecule or place a marker to identify a key feature on an image. Here the skill being assess is inherently visual, so it cannot be accessible to blind users.
• the testing identified some minor accessibility bugs, and we have not fixed all of them yet. The remaining issues are on our backlog, so they will get fixed when we get time.

I have been busy on other work. I think the only way this might get into 2.9 is if I spend my long Easter weekend working on it, which I have considered. It may come down to whether we get typical rainy English bank-holiday^* weather.

Anyway, MDL-47494 is the issue to watch.

* Your fact for they day: Why are British public holidays called "Bank Holidays"?

Well, the person who got the law passed really wanted to have public holidays for the majority of labourers. However, he knew that his fellow members of parliament would not have much sympathy for the working classes, so instead he wrote the law as if the main goal as to give poor over-worked bankers a well-deserved break, and the MPs voted it in!