Hi
WARNING! Brain teaser ahead. Get ready to tie your brain into knots.
I am tasked with creating a placement test from which any one of eight different Moodle Certificate activities can be generated. I am using the Moodle 2.5 quiz for this placement test. My problem is to figure out how to generate a Moodle Cerificate based on this complex structure:
Structure
There are Nine parts to the Placement Test. Each part consists of a Cloze question with multiple input boxes. So the entire quiz has 9 Questions.
Placement
Test Score (%) Certificate Awarded Additional Specific criteria (if any)
0% - 9% student gets a GE Certificate
10% - 19% student gets a KE Certificate (minimum of 5 marks in Question1)
20% - 29% student gets a PE Certificate (minimum of 12 marks in Question1 & Question2 combined)
30% - 39% student gets a Pre-FC Certificate
40% - 49% student gets a FC Certificate (minimum of 7 marks in Question3 & Question4 combined)
50% - 59% student gets a Pre-CA Certificate
60% - 69% student gets a CA Certificate (minimum of 15 marks in Question5 & Question6 combined)
>70% student gets a CP Certificate (minimum of 15 marks in Question7 & Question8 combined)
What I have done, for now, is to create eight certificate activities. Each activity is conditional upon the score of the student in the placement test. So if the student scored 8% on the placement test, the first certificate activity becomes visible, and the student clicks on the activity link to popup the PDF certificate . And so on.
See those "minimum of N marks in QuestionM..."? Yikes!!!
The GE, Pre-FC, Pre-CA certificates can be generated easily and straightforward, no sweat, as they are based solely on the % score of the placement test.
The KE Certificate, however, requires me to drill down and see if the student scored at least 5 marks in Question1 of the quiz. How on earth do I check for this?
If the student scored less than 5 marks for Question1, he or she only gets the GE Certificate (one level lower). Ouch!
Even 'worse', is the PE Certificate. I have to ALSO check that the combined score of Question1 and Question2 is at least 12 marks. If the combined score is not 12 marks, then the KE Certificate (one level below) becomes visible. Mama mia!
The programmer in me knows it can be done as Moodle's PHP can be hacked with some (many?) tears shed. It's just that I don't think that Moodle-vanilla-out-of-the-box can handle this stringent and detailed requirement.
regards
Frankie Kam