Today one student called me to say that while taking quiz with 4 options (only 1 correct), she had chosen options b and c for two consecutive questions. However, when she saved the quiz and checked her answers, she found that they were marked as d. There was nothing wrong with other 18 questions in the same quiz.
She also told me that she had checked all the options before saving the quiz.
The quiz has been checked and there is nothing wrong with those 2 questions.
We are using Moodle 1.4.5. The student said that she used the browser I.E. 6.
How can this thing happen?
I am replying to this myself after having more experience with Moodle.
I suspect that the problem can be with the usage of scroll mouse. If option (b) is selected and mouse is scrolled, there is a possibility for the option to change to some other value without realising.
After that incident, I have added a line in quiz instructions that mentions that the students using scroll mouse need to be careful so as the option selected is not changed.
I can only think of this as the possible answer to this issue.
I suspect that the problem can be with the usage of scroll mouse. If option (b) is selected and mouse is scrolled, there is a possibility for the option to change to some other value without realising.
After that incident, I have added a line in quiz instructions that mentions that the students using scroll mouse need to be careful so as the option selected is not changed.
I can only think of this as the possible answer to this issue.
Manish...
Your suspicion is probably correct insofar as the scroll button on the mouse is concerned! I have found it to be the case. Shen I have selected a combo box and a drop down appears, I can select with the left mouse button. However, if I don't click off the combo box, in other words, it is still selected, and I happen to use the scroll button on the mouse, the selection will change in the combo box. In other words, making a selection from a dropdown menu does NOT deselect the field. That has been my experience.
madea
madea@mmsi.com
The scroll mouse issue described by Manish is always annoying when filling forms anywhere on the web. Users usually expect the page to scroll up down instead of the options in the select box after they have selected one of the options.
A humble suggestion to quiz module developers: How about handling the javascript event (onchange="moveFocusToSomthingElse();") of the select box to move focus to next control or something.
I understand that this might not be very simple due to the dynamic generation of quiz questions. Just a thought.