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Hi Tim

Thanks for your quick response.  

I'm storing the data within my plugin for reporting and for manual grading of essay questions in a separate process and removing the data from the questions_usages, questions_attempts and associated step tables afterwards (at the end of the activity).  I think that it also makes it easier to implement privacy requirements if I have all the data and none is in the the usages and related tables.

I permit adaptive and immediate behaviours and, when the check button on the form is clicked, the data is transferred into those usage tables, so far so good.   There was a problem with saving essay data so I've added a button to allow that to be saved multiple times.

However, deferred feedback does not offer a button on the form so I've supplied a submit button in the renderer code.

public function render_question_form(
            $actionurl, $options, $slot, $quba,
            $starttime, $qtype, $behaviour) {
        $html = html_writer::start_div('mod_simplelesson_question');
        $headtags = '';
        $headtags .= $quba->render_question_head_html($slot);
        // Start the question form.
        $html .= html_writer::start_tag('form',
                array('method' => 'post', 'action' => $actionurl,
                'enctype' => 'multipart/form-data',
                'accept-charset' => 'utf-8',
                'id' => 'responseform'));
        $this->page->requires->js_init_call('M.core_question_engine.init_form',
        array('#responseform'), false, null);
        $html .= html_writer::start_tag('div');
        $html .= html_writer::empty_tag('input',
                array('type' => 'hidden',
                'name' => 'sesskey', 'value' => sesskey()));
        $html .= html_writer::empty_tag('input',
                array('type' => 'hidden',
                'name' => 'slots', 'value' => $slot));
        $html .= '<input type="hidden" name="scrollpos" value="" />';
        $html .= html_writer::empty_tag('input',
                array('type' => 'hidden',
                'name' => 'starttime', 'value' => $starttime));
        $html .= html_writer::end_tag('div');
        // Output the question. slot = display number.
        $html .= $quba->render_question($slot, $options);
        // If it's an essay question, output a save button.
        // If it's deferred feedback add a save button.
        if ( ($qtype == 'essay') || ($behaviour == 'deferredfeedback') ) {
            $html .= html_writer::start_div(
                    'mod_simplelesson_save_button');
            $html .= $this->output->single_button($actionurl,
                    get_string('saveanswer', 'mod_simplelesson'));
            $html .= html_writer::end_div();
        }
        // Finish the question form.
        $html .= html_writer::start_tag(
                'mod_simplelesson_action_buttons');
        $html .= html_writer::end_tag('div');
        $html .= html_writer::end_tag('form');
        $html .= html_writer::end_div('div');
        return $html;
    }  

This submit button works for the essay question but doesn't cause any usage data to be stored for deferred feedback.  Clearly I'm missing some important processing step. 

I wanted to report the student responses for later review and I had intended to cover the main question types, t/f, multiple choice, fill blanks, matching and essay.  I have not yet thought about D&D and so on.  The original intent was simplification (for teachers) as quiz/lesson already offer pretty comprehensive alternatives.