Quiz

Dear Gustav,

Thank you for your reply. I guess I will have to be patient and wait for this new plug-in mechanism you are mentioning before re-submitting my proposal for 1.6.

I hope you will survive the bottleneck,

All the best, and thanks for your great work on the Quiz module,

Joseph

PS For other moodlers, I'm looking forward to more test reports on my test site, as mentioned in my initial post on this thread.

Jeff > Any possibility to get a teacher login to your course (or a cut down copy) to try out the question-making interface?

In answer to your query, I am glad to announce that it is now possible to log into my test site as a teacher in order to experiment with the question-making interface.

Anyone interested just send me an e-mail (preferably stating your institution, etc.) to require a username and password and I will enrol you into the Sandbox course with (limited) teacher rights immediately.

Looking forward to intriguing and effective regexp formulae being devised by daredevil moodlers,

Joseph

 $mform->removeElement('generalfeedback');

At the moment we use Moodle 1.8.2, upgrading recently from 1.6.4.

Our teachers use moodle in their classes and they must explain to the students their mistakes. It's well for learning, but it takes time. I quite understand value of General Feedback after first lesson, where I repeat similar explanations more than 15 times. General Feedback saves a lot of time for the teacher. Also, it work quite well for the training quizzes: even after very nonstandard mistake student can see what he must know to correctly answer on the lessons.

As for the dubious nature of General Feedback ... well, I think, sometimes it's better to tell the students how (and why) do things right, than detect and explain every possible way to do them wrong (after all, there can be far too much of them to do it in every single question - consider questions, which asks for a string on the programming language).  Anyway, I doesn't see the point of disabling a feature: these, who don't want it, may not use it, but it'll hurt those, who want it.

P.S. There are some other problems during upgrading. Question now complains for using in regular expression wildcard symbols like * or + (which where hardly used in our questions); what more - even students can see these complains and regular expression with them - this is security risk, for they can get an answer from it! Is there a way to disable expanding regexp feature for such questions, or otherwise continue to use wildcards? I don't want to interfere with you code because then I must edit it every time you upgrade you question.

P.P.S.  Thank you for the slick interface. It's much more usable (exluding deleted General Feedback), than interface of the standard question types. THANKS!

Hello Joseph,

we'd like to use the REGEXP question type in our bayernmoodle. A moodle for the schools in Bavaria. We are using ver. 1.9.9

The question type installs fine but it doesn't work as expected. Everytime I use the .* combination I get the following error:

"SORRY! Cannot generate sentences from a regExp containing one of these metacharacters: + * . { }"

Would be great if you could help us out.

Thomas