Quiz

It is good news to see the cloze question type upgraded.

I think it would be even better if someone (perhaps Davo?) would write a cloze ditor plugin for Atto, similar to the old cloze editor for TinyMCE, but expanded to include all the new accepted question types for the (new default) Atto editor.

Quite a few Moodlers (Me and 700+) are still using the TinyMCE cloze editor to write their cloze questions.

Having a friendly cloze editor would be a very useful addition for Atto.

My main feedback is surprise that someone finds the question type insufficiently complex

I think what is done here has to parallel what was doing for multiple choice, single response, with shuffled and unshuffled, and vertical/horizontal variants. (https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Embedded_Answers_(Cloze)_question_type#Format)

I wonder if a better option would be MULTIRESPONSE, with all the variants like

• multiple choice (MULTIRESPONSE or MR), represented as a dropdown menu in-line in the text,
• multiple choice (MULTIRESPONSE_V or MRV), represented as a vertical column of radio buttons, or
• multiple choice (MULTIRESPONSE_H or MRH), represented as a horizontal row of radio-buttons,
• when the quiz question behavior shuffle option IS SET YES, the following multiple choice sub-questions elements will be shuffled,
• multiple choice (MULTIRESPONSE_S or MRS), represented as a dropdown menu in-line in the text,
• multiple choice (MULTIRESPONSE_VS or MRVS), represented as a vertical column of radio buttons, or
• multiple choice (MULTIRESPONSE_HS or MRHS), represented as a horizontal row of radio-buttons.

Davo,

The scoring is more complex than the single answer case. The sum of correct (positive) answers must equal 100%, and the parser should check that. Wrong answers receive negative marks. Otherwise one could check them all. If = or ~ are used, they should default to the pattern of oumultichoice.

When I have some free time I will do the Atto plugin.

Based on the discussion here, I've updated the ticket with the following changes (text copied from the ticket):

Now called 'MULTIRESPONSE'.
Horizontal and shuffled options added (MULTIRESPONSE_H, MULTIRESPONSE_S, MULTIRESPONSE_HS).
Positive fractions (whereby '=' is treated as 100%) are scaled so that the combined total of all positive fractions is 100% (nothing happens if they already add up to 100%).
If no fractions are specified at all, then all incorrect answers are given a fixed score of -50% (to avoid having to use fractions at all in the most simple version of the question), if any fractions are specified (either positive or negative), then incorrect answers will need to be manually given a negative score.

For clarity, a couple of examples:

Please select the fruits {1:MULTIRESPONSE:=Apple~Burger~Hot dog~Pizza~=Orange~=Banana} and vegetables {1:MULTIRESPONSE_HS:%10%Raddish#Good~%-20%Chocolate~%-30%Biscuit~%-10%Cheese~=Carrot}

This translates into:

• Multichoice, multiple answer, unshuffled, vertical checkboxes
  • Apple +33.3% (scaled so all +ve answers add up to 100%)
  • Burger -50% (automatic negative score for answers not marked as correct)
  • Hot dog -50%
  • Pizza -50%
  • Orange +33.3%
  • Banana +33.3%
• Multichoice, multiple answer, shuffled, horizontal checkboxes
  • Raddish +9.1% (correct answers of +10% and +100% scaled to 9% + 91%, to add up to 100%)
  • Chocolate -20%
  • Biscuit -30%
  • Cheese -10%
  • Carrot +90.9%

So, the simple version, where no percentages are specified, works as expected - i.e. select all (and only) right answers = full marks, any wrong answers result in less than full marks. At the same time, the teacher still has the option of manually specifying percentages, at which point they have the flexibility of specifying the exact negative marks for incorrect answers (including the option of specifying a mark of 0 for any answer).

Further feedback (especially from trying out the question type) would be appreciated.