Quiz

Which type of hotpotatoes quiz is it? They don't all work in the Moodle quiz

Edit - sorryjust re-read your post - have I misunderstood? Are you trying to import these into a quiz or into the Hotpot module? Is there a reason why you want to put them in the Moodle quiz and not the Hotpot module (where they would work better)?

Hi Colin:

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I have used hot potatoes  before, and it is already activated propperly.

Well, I have been able to embed hot pot on moodle before. This is not a problem. However, this is an examination for students composed by 4 sections each containing short answers, and gap-fill, questions. I do not want ot put the four sections as a list of quizzes on the main page, whithin a section, where students could take them separately.

What I really want to do is to embed the four sections within a Moodle quiz. For  so, what I tried to do is to import the 4  hot pot quizzes (all of them are .jcl) into a Moodle quiz. All is there to do it, apparently, but by the time I am importing it does not go thorugh

The benefits is that if i can do it, I will have just one column in the grade book, instead one for each question. I have 7 units and a quiz at the end of each one.

Thanks,

mmm OK I have just checked this and it has all gone smooth for me. So perhaps I am not getting the question. I have updated the hot pot folder and that went well, downloaded the latest version of HotPot and that went in like a dream, created a new quiz and that went well, uploaded it to the Moodle and went through the questions, and checked the gradebook, which also went well.

So, where am I? Thinking that you may be thinking how you can merge all four quizzes to create one for simplifying the gradebook response. You can import the questions, upload the file to the Files area of the course and when you create your quiz, select the Hot Pot option.  It all works as it should for me...

Which brings me to my original post, if it does not import properly to the quiz you are trying to create and you have gone through the proper steps, then there is probably something wrong with the module, but not the HotPot module, the Quiz module, so replace that with a new set of php files.

Hi Joseph:

Thanks for your reply (btw, I already sent my files to your personal email as requested).

1. Yes, I made sure I checked out the Hot Potatoes radio button. Also, I was trying to import the .jcl file -not the html one)

2. Yes, other than the 'Parsing questions from import file' message, there is nothing else on the scree. I actuially attached a screen shot.

I will try what you suggest.

Thanks.

Me again. I modified the Debugging stting was you suggested, but no more messages other than the 'Parsing questions from import file.' showed up, though.

Further to private communication with Luis I managed to import the Hot Potatoes *.jcl files he provided into Moodle's question bank without any problem.

My diagnostic is that something must be wrong with Luis's Moodle quiz import system...