Moodle in English: Hot Question - an Activity Module for non-virtual classroom

The first moodle activity for physical classroom. The idea comes from Purdue University's hotseat.

In or out of classroom, students post questions into Hot Question activity from notebook, netbook, android, iPhone, iPod Touch and other gears which can access the moodle site. Students can also vote on others' questions, so that the hottest questions will be popped up. Teachers can make orally comments on selected questions in classroom.

Download at http://code.google.com/p/sunner-projects/downloads/list?q=label:hotquestion

After glancing through the code (but not having installed it), I think this looks like a useful module. I'd consider using it as a method of gaining feedback from a class about a particular teaching unit (with students being able to vote to agree with other student's feedback).

A few things I wondered, I notice that you have disabled the ability to remove a vote already cast, would it be better to make that an option on the settings screen? Even better, would it be possible to also include (as an option) the ability to add 'down' votes? (I know that is a hotly-debated issue on sites such as Digg, but giving the Teacher the choice might be helpful).

I'm sure you've also considered other features, such as the ability to comment on other student's questions (possibly with the 'Teachers' response being highlighted or with comments themselves having the up/down vote option).

You could also add some features like Google Moderator, such as marking questions as 'answered' or showing a random question and asking students to vote it up or not.

Anyway, those are just some thoughts, overall it still looks like a great little module and I may well be chatting to our site admin about trying it out in college.

Thank you for review. Your suggests are great and exciting but now I do not have enough time to upgrade it so much. I will use it along this semester and collect feedback from students and other instructors. I wish a future plan can be made at the end of this semester and your/others' opinions will be considered.

Is very usefull, but how we can delete the messages or the rounds. Is there any administrator capabillities?

And something more how we can disable the cababilite to vote?

“Update this Hot Question" -> "Override Permission" -> Prevent the hotquestion:vote cap of desired roles. Also, you can disable it in the site-wide roles.

I think i found a solution.
The questions are in database so we can delete them from there.
1./phpmyadmin/
2.open our moodle database
3.click ''hotquestions_questions''
4.Manage your questions: Delete
5.clik ''hotquestions_round''
6. Delete the round you want

All these things can done with php, but someone has to write some code

Zhigang, have you developed this any further? I am looking at using it for one year to pilot it and I just wanted to ensure I grabbed the latest code. I notice you have been active in your Github 2 months ago - should I take that code or the plugin listed on moodle.org??

It looks awesome btw, simple yet functional with some nice subtle functionality, like sorting the questions automatically - nice touch.

I have just recently taken over the job of maintaining the Hot Question add-on. My priority at the moment, is to get it updated so that it works with all the newer versions of Moodle. Be sure and let me know if you have any problems with the new versions I've released. I hope to have more available for Moodle 2.9 and 3.0, soon.

Just released a new version of Hot Question that works for both Moodle 2.9 and 3.0.

Just updated the current version to 3.0.1 that works for both Moodle 2.9 and 3.0.

It adds a new capability for downloading the questions. An admin download includes ALL questions from ALL the Hot Question activities in a Moodle site. A download by a teacher or manager, includes the questions for just the activity they are currently viewing.

Another new capability is the ability for an admin, teacher, or manager to remove a question. If you want to keep a copy of the question, for whatever reason, you should download before removing as once a question is removed, it is gone and cannot be recovered.

Hello Al, it's really good that you have taken this on.

One small bit of feedback, the timestamp for questions says something like

(3 mins 42 secs ago)

but if you have *just* asked a question it says

(now ago)

Cheers

Martin

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the feedback. Could you tell me which version you are using? I'm using the latest 3.0.3 and so far I have not been able to duplicate (now ago) as it always takes me a second or two to click Post and then click Continue, so my view always has something like (2 secs ago).

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