Hi all,
I have about 300 students to test. Even for those who attend classes regularly it is hard to remember who is who, and I really cannot say anything about those who attend rarely or not at all.
In order to make sure that the person filling in the quiz is exactly the student that is supposed to be (the exams are held at the info lab inside our faculty), it would be really helpful to have the student's picture on the screen at all times, to compare it with the student's face.
I can scan the picture from the student's registration file.
I am not a programmer, but I reckon it shouldn't be very hard to do in Moodle, since the user already has the possibility to add a picture.
All the best,
Adrian
Good idea, Adrian.
-- Art
-- Art
Oops ... I thought this one would be relatively easy to add to the quiz module, as the Quiz module already allows blocks to be displayed. Unfortunately I discovered that the Quiz page allows blocks to be displayed only before attempting the quiz. (see screenshot)
As such my block is not very useful. You could try adding
print_user_picture($user->id, $course->id, $user->picture, true, false, false);
somewhere in the footer of your theme.
It seems the code to display blocks on every page has not yet been added to the attempt.php file. Will it be added later on?
Are you sure posting user pictures is really a solution for students switching identities? You would need to disable students uploading their own pictures / make sure that students can't change the browser's cache / etc.... Is it worth it?
As such my block is not very useful. You could try adding
print_user_picture($user->id, $course->id, $user->picture, true, false, false);
somewhere in the footer of your theme.
It seems the code to display blocks on every page has not yet been added to the attempt.php file. Will it be added later on?
Are you sure posting user pictures is really a solution for students switching identities? You would need to disable students uploading their own pictures / make sure that students can't change the browser's cache / etc.... Is it worth it?
Hello all (again),
I got another idea last night (they usually come that way) so that students can do nothing to cheat:
why not having *two* databases for pictures, one of them to be 'official' where only teachers and secretariat can upload the pictures...
On formal quizes, it is much more simple to add a feature like "force official picture database" instead of locking profiles, don't you think?
This way students cannot change anything: problem solved.
What do you say?
I got another idea last night (they usually come that way) so that students can do nothing to cheat:
why not having *two* databases for pictures, one of them to be 'official' where only teachers and secretariat can upload the pictures...
On formal quizes, it is much more simple to add a feature like "force official picture database" instead of locking profiles, don't you think?
This way students cannot change anything: problem solved.
What do you say?
Nice idea Adrian,
From the point of view of "objective self awareness theory" (1971 Duval and Wicklund) the presence of the photo on the screen should also encourage students to be less likely to cheat in other ways since "self-focus" is shown to increase pro-social (moral) behaviour.
Timothy
From the point of view of "objective self awareness theory" (1971 Duval and Wicklund) the presence of the photo on the screen should also encourage students to be less likely to cheat in other ways since "self-focus" is shown to increase pro-social (moral) behaviour.
Timothy
Timothy,
do you have more references on that topic? I am very interested.
do you have more references on that topic? I am very interested.
Yes, I have lots more. I do very little research these days, but when I do it is on this topic - and particularly the fact that the same phenomena is not found among Japanese. Do you want me to send you a list of papers? If you can use Psychinfo then just type in objective self-awareness. Also I believe that Dr. Franzoi has done a recent review, but I am not sure. He did write a review a few years previously.
Franzoi, S. L., & Davis, M. H. (2005). Self-awareness and self-consciousness. In V. Derlega, B. Winstead, & W. Jones (Eds.), Personality: Contemporary theory and research. pp. 281-308. 3rd edition. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.
It is not avaiable from Dr. Franzoi's web site
http://www.marquette.edu/psyc/franzoi.html
If you can get the above then I would very much like a copy!
I can also send a ppt if you are interested but I think that you would need the explanation to go with it.
Timothy
Franzoi, S. L., & Davis, M. H. (2005). Self-awareness and self-consciousness. In V. Derlega, B. Winstead, & W. Jones (Eds.), Personality: Contemporary theory and research. pp. 281-308. 3rd edition. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.
It is not avaiable from Dr. Franzoi's web site
http://www.marquette.edu/psyc/franzoi.html
If you can get the above then I would very much like a copy!
I can also send a ppt if you are interested but I think that you would need the explanation to go with it.
Timothy
Really good idea. 
It would quite simple to add a picture (and name) to the quiz attempt screen, as well as an option for the teacher to enable/disable this feature.
I've added feature request (bug 3156)to the bug tracker.
A student could currently change their image if they were determined, but in combination with the user profile field locking this wouldn't be a problem.
It would quite simple to add a picture (and name) to the quiz attempt screen, as well as an option for the teacher to enable/disable this feature.
I've added feature request (bug 3156)to the bug tracker.
A student could currently change their image if they were determined, but in combination with the user profile field locking this wouldn't be a problem.
Voted for it at http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-3156
To keep it alive, maybe some others could do the same. (Although it looks like it is going to be in 2.0 anyway.)
-- Art
To keep it alive, maybe some others could do the same. (Although it looks like it is going to be in 2.0 anyway.)
-- Art
I thought adding it as a block would be easier, as you could add configuration to the block itself (where it belongs) and you can use the same block in other modules... to increase this self awareness Timothy was talking about.
Here is the block I was working on, if someone wants to continue it. Just put the file it in a new directory eg /moodle/blocks/userpicture and visit the admin page of your Moodle install.
Like I said it doesn't display in Moodle Quiz attempt, only in Quiz view.
Here is the block I was working on, if someone wants to continue it. Just put the file it in a new directory eg /moodle/blocks/userpicture and visit the admin page of your Moodle install.
Like I said it doesn't display in Moodle Quiz attempt, only in Quiz view.
Thanks for your replies and sorry for my delay (I receive all messages in digest).
Uh, yes I think it worth it; usually students are ahead of teachers on computers, but in my case (sociology, where most of the students have little experience) it should be ok. I have a second database with students' registration photos; I can easily double-check should there be any suspicion.
I believe there will be attempts to by-pass all protection systems we might think of, but generally I feel comfortable when I can check all sorts of things.
I totally agree with the self-awareness theory and I expect this feature to drastically reduce the cheating probability.
In the mean time, I will try your suggestions and wait for the next release of the quiz module ;)
Best,
Adrian
Uh, yes I think it worth it; usually students are ahead of teachers on computers, but in my case (sociology, where most of the students have little experience) it should be ok. I have a second database with students' registration photos; I can easily double-check should there be any suspicion.
I believe there will be attempts to by-pass all protection systems we might think of, but generally I feel comfortable when I can check all sorts of things.
I totally agree with the self-awareness theory and I expect this feature to drastically reduce the cheating probability.
In the mean time, I will try your suggestions and wait for the next release of the quiz module ;)
Best,
Adrian
Dear all,
Some months ago I started this thread about using pictures during a quiz exam. As everyone seemed to be very interested, I wonder if there has been some coding in this direction.
I thought if I bring it up again, the interest could rise again. If I remember correctly, this feature was added to the wish list, right?
Thank you in advance,
Adrian
Some months ago I started this thread about using pictures during a quiz exam. As everyone seemed to be very interested, I wonder if there has been some coding in this direction.
I thought if I bring it up again, the interest could rise again. If I remember correctly, this feature was added to the wish list, right?
Thank you in advance,
Adrian
What is the status of this?
Ger, I just checked with the latest Moodle. The quiz code has not yet been adopted to allow blocks to be added to the actual quiz attempt page. Blocks can only be added to the Quiz info page, the one that shows up before a student starts a quiz. As such the block is not a solution.
any updates along these lines, or an update for the block above?
.. note... must run notifications to get it to work (just found that out)
is it possible to display the large pic??
.. note... must run notifications to get it to work (just found that out)
is it possible to display the large pic??
Is it not possible to have the picture of the student in a popup screen like the timeticker popup?