If my three hour long exam were made of only one quiz and I wanted the students to do the exam on a particular day but not at any particular time, I could easily set an open time and a close time, say from 9am to 9 pm, and a time limit of 3 hours.
How could I achieve the same thing if my exam is made up of more than one quiz? No time limit is required for each quiz, only one limit for the exam as a whole.
Hi,
I have similar requirements except that I would like the students to see only one question/quiz at a time without the possibility to do multiple attempts. The idea is that the students have 3 hours altogether but can pause the test/exam between questions.
In other words: A test is made out of a number of questions. Once a student starts the first question a timer starts counting down from 3h. When the student has the answer, the student has the choice:
1) submit answer and continue to next questions
2) submit answer and pause test
Choice 1 leads to the next question and the countdown timer continues while choice 2 stops the timer without the student seeing the next question.
Hi there,
With the help of a colleague I have modified the moodle/mod/quiz/review.php file to allow for this feature. It would be nice if this could be implemented as a core functionality but we do not know how to do this.
For the moment it works by checking the name of the quiz and if it contains a specific string (here 'paused quiz number') then the code activates and transfers unused time from one quiz to the next one until it reaches the last quiz in the sequence.
// Paused quiz modification; code goes at the end of moodle/mod/quiz/review.php
$str = $attemptobj->get_quiz_name();
// Quiz naming structure:
// Module #### paused quiz number ##; question ##/##;
if (strpos($str, 'paused quiz number') !== false) {
// load database
global $DB;
// calculate remaining time for subsequent quizzes
$attemptmm = $attemptobj->get_attempt();
$quizmm = $attemptobj ->get_quiz();
$quiztimeremaining = $quizmm->timelimit - ($attemptmm->timefinish - $attemptmm->timestart);
// get module number, quiz number, question number and number of questions from quiz title string
preg_match_all('!\d+!', $str, $matches);
// check if not last question in quiz group (defined by module number and quiz number)
if ($matches[0][2] < $matches[0][3]) {
// get id number for next quiz by searching database table for correct string (mdl_quiz)
$nextquiz = 'Module '.$matches[0][0]. ' paused quiz number '.$matches[0][1].'; question '.(1+$matches[0][2]).'/'.$matches[0][3].';';
$nextquizrecord = $DB->get_record('quiz', array('name'=>$nextquiz));
$nextquizid = $nextquizrecord->id;
// get user id
$quizuserid = $attemptmm->userid;
// create/modify the user's override record for next question in the group
$overriderecord = new stdClass();
$overriderecord->quiz=$nextquizid;
$overriderecord->userid=$quizuserid;
$overriderecord->timelimit=$quiztimeremaining;
$norecords = $DB->count_records('quiz_overrides',array('quiz'=>$nextquizid,'userid'=>$quizuserid));
if ($norecords ==0){
$DB->insert_record('quiz_overrides',$overriderecord,false);
} else {
$DB->set_field('quiz_overrides','timelimit',$quiztimeremaining,array('quiz'=>$nextquizid,'userid'=>$quizuserid));
}
}
}
For this to work as expected, the quizzes that belong together need to be named as a sequence. For example:
Each quiz needs to allow only one attempt and the time limit in the first quiz needs to be set to the overall time limit.
I hope this helps. I appreciate any comments and help with correct implementation.
Thank you, Michael