I need a new feature to be operative in the courses that I'm
preparing. These moodle courses are thought to help teaching in
several Experimental Laboratory Courses in my University. These
require the physical presence of students and they get a lot of personal results to work with.
The purpose of the new module, that I'm thinking of, is to crop
original data created or gathered by the students and store them to
create report tables. These tables will be used for preliminary grading
and to create a new task .
These data may be experimental results from the work in the Lab, or
original thoughts, or ideas, or suggestions. Data may be
numerical or short answer (text), but in most cases they will be
open. (For the case of more complex data I could use the off-line
task to get a file or a set packed in a zip file)
Sometimes, there should be a mathematical relationship between some
data and, if so, this moodle module will have to check it and add
points to the grade if it is fulfilled.
For instant, below there is an example of a page used to crop some of
the data. There is a mathematical relation between some columns
and also the multiple choice answers must be a logical conclusion from
data in prior columns.
I've used the quiz editor and the Cloze quiz syntaxis to prepare the
crop page. In other words, I would say I want to extend the quiz
module to crop open answers. But, I think it will be different
enough to be a module apart. Each answer, for instant: 42.6, may
not get a feedback nor a grade by itself. Some relationships between
answers should be checked for grading and also allow additional manual
grading when the crop (whole table) is built. This crop page
would be similar to the review of an attempt for the quiz module but
allowing the inclusion of data from all students or a selection of them.
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Philosophy
Data used in quizzes are preestablished and more or less strange to students.
Data used for the crop (and the following tasks) will have been
elaborated in the Lab (or in the real live) by themselves. They
will work, manipulate and understand their own data. The
constructivism is served.
To start, I've been trying to modify the quiz module, as I've prepared
the form using the Cloze syntax. It would be the "crop module".
But I get lost in the way to the database and then coming back to elaborate a table report for the crop.
I can find the stored data in the database, but it's indexed by attempts and it´s difficult to me to organize the files and steps that I have to write.
I need every help you could give me.
Thank you very much.
But I get lost in the way to the database and then coming back to elaborate a table report for the crop.
I can find the stored data in the database, but it's indexed by attempts and it´s difficult to me to organize the files and steps that I have to write.
I need every help you could give me.
Thank you very much.
Jaime, do you think the planned Data Module might be nearly suitable for your needs?
I never had heard of it.
I've just read your post in the glossary forum and I agree with it completely in the first step.
Then, we'll need a set of tools for grading based well in contents, or in accomplishment of some relationships between some fields or at least manually.
Thanks Martin. How can I participate in the project?
I've just read your post in the glossary forum and I agree with it completely in the first step.
Then, we'll need a set of tools for grading based well in contents, or in accomplishment of some relationships between some fields or at least manually.
Thanks Martin. How can I participate in the project?
Hi Jamie!
I am visiting this thread because of a post you made in Teemu's thread about the Data Module.
Form module (perhaps part of the data module)
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=14611
Where you able to code this yourself. I am not clear about this from your post. Have you been able to find this functionality in another Virtual Learning Environment [VLE]?
It looks really nice. Are the reports generated in a certain format.
WP1
I am visiting this thread because of a post you made in Teemu's thread about the Data Module.
Form module (perhaps part of the data module)
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=14611
Where you able to code this yourself. I am not clear about this from your post. Have you been able to find this functionality in another Virtual Learning Environment [VLE]?
It looks really nice. Are the reports generated in a certain format.
WP1