How to exit a hotpot quiz easily

How to exit a hotpot quiz easily

by brian avery -
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Hi,

I would like to know if anyone can tell me how to create a logical way for a student to complete a hot potatoes multi-choice quiz and either:

A:  Choose a 'submit all' option after the quiz (I think this is not possible) or

B:  Add an 'exit quiz' button for students to exit the quiz once they have completed all the questions.

At present, if I create a quiz with 20 questions, students click to check each answer one at a time (silly when students have to choose 3 answers from 5 in multi-select). Having done each question they are not presented with any obvious exit from the quiz and even I'm not sure if their score is correctly recorded if the just close the window. See attached image of Q20 of 20 which is from a simple multi-choice (single answer) quiz. Single and multi-answer quizzes seem to have the same problem in that there is no visible exit path.

 

There is no obviously correct way for a student to end the quiz. Am I doing something wrong? I thought about importing the questions to moodle quiz, but multi-select questions don't function in moodle quiz (1.9.10+)

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

Brian

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Re: How to exit a hotpot quiz easily

by Gordon Bateson -
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Hi Brian,

Neither A nor B is necessary, as the answers will be submitted automatically when the quiz is finished, i.e. when the students have found the correct answers to all the questions.

> At present, if I create a quiz with 20 questions,
>students click to check each answer one at a time
>(silly when students have to choose 3 answers from 5 in multi-select)

It is only silly if it is meaningless to the students. If they haven't a clue about the answers, don't feel motivated to research the answers,  and are just guessing randomly, then I suppose they are not learning much and we could say it is silly. But any test or quiz would be silly in that learning environment.

> Having done each question ...

I think when you say "done", you mean tried just once to get an answer, but it may have been a wrong answer. However, such a question is not considered "completed" by the Hot Potatoes software, until the student has found a correct answer.

> they are not presented with any obvious exit

The quiz will exit automatically when all questions have been completed.

> even I'm not sure if their score is correctly recorded
> if they just close the window

I can assure you, that as far as is technically possible, the most up-to-date score is recorded.

> Am I doing something wrong?

I think you are thinking about it wrongly. You are thinking of a quiz, but Hot Potatoes exercises are designed to promote learning through trial, error, feedback and discovery. What kind of feedback does your question have?

> I thought about importing the questions to moodle quiz,

Yes, I think you would then get more of the behavior you expect.

> but multi-select questions don't function in moodle quiz (1.9.10+)

Oh really? surprise You tried importing a multi-select question and it didn't work? I'll check that out right away.

Gordon

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Re: How to exit a hotpot quiz easily

by Gordon Bateson -
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I tried importing a JQuiz containing a multiselect question into the question bank of a course on a Moodle 1.9.10 site, and it seemed to work fine (see screenshot).

If you are having problems with importing a JQuiz, please attach the errant quiz to your next post to this forum.

thanks
Gordon

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Re: How to exit a hotpot quiz easily

by brian avery -

Gordon,

I haven't tried to import multi-response questions because in the hotpot docs it says they won't function properly..so I assumed that was correct. Maybe it was written for an earlier version. See: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Import_questions#Hot_Potatoes

This afternoon I have had time to play with various options. Now I can see what the problem was; I had neglected to change the setting in HP from multiple choice to multi-select. So, the question was set up wrongly and therefore the way it ran made no sense. My mistake.

However, I would prefer to import the questions into moodle anyway..so I will look again at importing them from hotpot. Are the moodle docs out of date or do I need to use some sort of add-on to import multi-select questions?

Sorry if this sounds dumb!

Brian

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Re: How to exit a hotpot quiz easily

by Gordon Bateson -
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Thanks for the link to the misleading Moodle documentation. I have corrected it.

I am glad you found the crucial setting in JQuiz. You can import that now into the Moodle question bank. You do not need any extra software. You already have everything you need.

all the best
Gordon

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