Hotpot (plugin)

Hi Gordon,

This is indeed great news and I'm lucky enough to have an excellent host who updates QuizPort before I even ask so I've been able to try it out.

I'm afraid it needs some adjustment as my exercise appears distorted, see here in QuizPort and compare with the same standalone. Is there some setting I can change or is this more work for you?

Please feel free to modify the exercise where it is - it's not in a course with students working on it.

Cheers,

Glenys

Dear Helen W.,
welcome to the HotPot/QuizPort module. I would very much to meet with you when I am in Nottingham this August for EuroCALL 2011. I would also like to pursue the idea of closer integration between Xerte and QuizPort, along similar lines to the way that a Qedoc exercise can be initiated and tracked by QuizPort:

• Using Moodle's QuizPort with Qedoc

best regards
Gordon

That's great news Gordon.  I'll update as soon as possible and try it out.

Thanks so much.
Deborah

Hi Deborah
here is a modified version of the function that can optionally accept values for score, status, xml (results) and delay (in seconds) for the form submission.

To submit the form with the default values, try either of these:

• getURL("javascript:submitForm()")
• getURL("javascript:submitForm(100, 4, '', 0)");

Or to submit a score of 79% with a delay of 2 seconds, try this:

• getURL("javascript:submitForm(79, 4, '', 2)");

Or if the score and delay are stored in varlables, "myScore" and "myDelay" in your ActionScript, you can pass those like this:

• getURL("javascript:submitForm(" + myScore + ", 4, '', " + myDelay + ")");

Hopefully that should give you a few ideas to experiment with

all the best !
Gordon

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
function submitForm(score, status, xml, delay) {
    // score  : 0 .. 100
    // status : status of quiz attempt
    //          1=in progress, 2=timedout, 3=abandoned, 4=completed
    // xml    : details of quiz attempt, encoded as XML
    // delay  : time delay (in seconds) before results are sent

    // locate submission form
    var obj = document.getElementById('store');
    if (obj) {

        // set default values
        if (typeof(score)=='undefined') {
            score = 100;
        }
        if (typeof(status)=='undefined') {
            status = 4;
        }
        if (typeof(xml)=='undefined') {
            xml = '';
        }
        if (typeof(delay)=='undefined') {
            delay = 0;
        }

        // insert values into form
        obj.score.value = score;
        obj.status.value = status;
        obj.detail.value = xml;

        // submit form (after delay, if required)
        if (delay) {
            setTimeout("document.getElementById('store').submit();", delay * 1000);
        } else {
            obj.submit();
        }
    }
}
//]]>
</script>

Hi Gordon

One Xerte is made up of many pages.  In the case of my Xertes most of these pages are exercises which yield a score.  

When I call the Submit Form function on the last page of my Xerte a score is submitted but the record will only show that score.

Would there be a way of submitting the scores from previous pages, without  the whole Submit Form function which causes Quizport to move the student to the next quiz in the Quizport?

And if this was possible, could I give the previous pages identifying names with encoded xml and could you please give me an example of how the page name would be coded?

if (typeof(xml)=='undefined') {
    xml = ''; // details of quiz attempt, encoded as XML
}

I hope this is clear and I hope I'm not being too greedy.

With thanks in advance.
Deborah