Quiz

ability to import LXR test questions
essay mode
multimedia display options
anti copying tricks

Long-answer/essay questions (or just the ability to manually adjust the scoring, then you could use the short answer type question that is already there and not worry about the "right" wording in the answer).

Thomas Robb has already made the survey mode quite easy with his detailed report options.

Ability to email test taker a certificate as a PDF file. 

Perhaps a field could be added that allows the user to specify the name to be printed on the certificate. This way I can keep my name as Joe Vargas in my profile, but when I print a certificate it could say Joseph J. Vargas, M.D.

I have other thoughts on this should you be interested

These are some of the features we need:

• paragraph questions (long answers).
• quiz preview button.  This could include a non-recorded quiz attempt, so that quiz feedback can be tested as well.
• time-restricted attempts (including the displaying of a javascript clock/timer on the screen, so that people know the time left!  Many students do not have the correct time or don't have a watch!).
• submit questions one at a time.
• activity locking based on quiz score.
• javascript tricks to prevent copying (saving to file, printing, copy to clipboard).  Allow these options to be switched on/off independently in each quiz, since some assignments are given in the form of quiz, but do not need all the restrictions.  This would allow some quiz-type assignment to be copied or printed as required).
• GUI for embedded answer questions.
• "survey" mode.
  

• long answers, manualy graded
• preview-button for questions to test them (whole test is not nescessary since you can try it and delete the attempt thanks to Robb)

1. activity locking based on quiz score
2. "survey" mode ( with very usefull existing reports )
   
3. submit questions one or grouped as we want at a time
4. javascript tricks to prevent copying
5. quiz preview button. ( quiz feedback can be tested as well. )
6. time-restricted attempts

• time-restricted attempts
• more options for displaying multimedia
• activity locking based on quiz score

I'm not sure about the "submit questions one at a time" option.  Does that mean the student receives all the questions upon starting a quiz and can then submit them one or more at a time, or does that mean that the quiz is delivered to the student one at a time?  If it's the latter, put me down for a vote on that also.

The "security" related items are of high importance to me:

time-restricted attempts (with a countdown clock )

Hello Martin,

Our Christmas list would look something like this:

1. Paragraph writing questions, manually graded and commented
2. Timed quizzes with visible timer
3. Any additional security tricks that do not pose obstacles to students taking the test. The most useful elements in our eyes would be:
   • an option that would block access to the rest of the course environment until the quiz is submitted
   • a standard script blocking copying and viewing the source of the quiz.
4. And finally, regulating access on the basis of quiz (and/or assignment) scores can be useful, though we do not consider it essential.

With warm greetings from Finnish Lapland (Now that I think of it: Does Santa moodle too? )

Paul.

• preview quiz
• time-restricted attemps
• activity (un)locking based on scores
• all the tricks that can make things harder to cheaters

• Hi I would find it nice if the following was possible
  
  
• long answers i quiz, manually gradeable.
• A nice thing (but obviusly very deficult) a computeractivity logger during test, What browsers do they have open, what URL are else open and what programs is running in the backgound?
  
• The abillity to create pages and group questions in the quiz, eksample 5 questions in one page, go back and forth between the pages and submit when done.
  
• Preview questions and jump between the full quiz and edit question.
  
• A simple help for cloze questions, simple because a full GUI whould often be wery cumbersome, and slow compared to manually typeing. A short helptext/javascripsinserts, and a autorefreshing preview would do for me.

Best Regards Kristian Nielsen

1. more options per question
2. feedback in embedded answers type
3. activity locking based on quiz score
4. grouping questions into pages and a possibility to save answers after each group
5. Long-answer question type, manually graded and commented
6. survey mode
7. GUI for embedded answers type
8. preview button for questions
9. embedding sound
10. bulk-delete of questions from quiz and category

• long answer question type
• in the matching question type, to have more answers (in the list) than answer
• in the matching question type, to be able to put easily images for each  answers
  

• Password protected quizzes (would allow a student to take a quiz after a deadline had passed)
• Images allowed in multiple choice answers

Support for QTI would be a jump forward!

I can see it..or is it to far ahead of the herd?
I create a map of the Netherlands in another QTI-tool and you can point with your mouse in Mootle at the capital Amsterdam if you are asked to do that. On  problem I have to find that other FREE QTI-tool first.

(NO seriuos, the world to other products that will support QTI in the future would open up, in our case this would be that Dutch Wintoets program, used by secondary school mucisians.)

My other wish is to have more layout control on the question page: where should the image go without my workaround-trics? etc..

But also more control in the m.c-answer-boxes: I can embed a sound in the question-page that is forced to be played with a minimal controlbar, and forcing to use my plugin, not some of the other installed players, like that agressive Player One.

But if I try to do that in the answerbox: after offering a "sounding"question and then let them choose between different answer-sounds (my language teachers would love it!) I have not enough room to type that script in the answerboxes...

EXTENDED ANSWER Quiz questions please. Multiple Choice formats have questionable educational validy as an **assessment tool** and "Short Answer" (ie one, or two words) is too limiting.

Initially, all that is needed is to increase the dimensions of the Input Box for the Short Answer type. All the other 'fancies' and Menu listing can come later.

My suggestion is the full width of the page and perhaps 3 to five lines high.

(I don't know enough about PHP to make the change. Is this something the Site Administrator could do?)

Merry Christmas and Thankyou for your efforts.

Jim Fuller
Secondary Computing Teacher
ECAWA Member
Western Australia

1. QTI import support please!
2. Timed Tests

I hope voting is still on. We have a kernal group of Moodle advocates at our college, but with enhanced quiz and grade book features, we would see a steady flow of converts (from the Bb seasons of discontent) into the arms of the Moodle VLE.

• javascript tricks to prevent copying
• time-restricted attempts
• paragraph questions (long/short answers  that can be manually graded)
• submit questions one at a time

jean

I'm trying to resolve a problem. Maybe this could be new feature or something like that...

I have topic based course. After each topic I have quiz. And after final topic I have final quiz. How can I make that all other quizes must be done before final quiz for every user or group?

Essay Question within the quiz

Time controlled

Ability to print quiz questions and answers.

Open-ended questions (essay/paragraph/long answer) that are manually graded.

Thanks!!

Sue

Has anything happened with this module?  Is it in the latest Moodle release?

Thanks!
-Brian

Show test takers the (rolling) average grade of all persons who have taken the quiz

Show the total number of persons who have taken the quiz

Report to instructor: average, mean, standard deviation, percent of test takers who missed each question

Allow student to MARK questions for review before submission

Allow student to send comments on MARKED questions to instructor

• Smart Quiz

What I meant by "Smart Quiz" is that with every "multiple choice" quiz questions, the student will get three extra choices (other than the regular choice items): A green light button (means that the student is TOTALLY confident with his/her answer is correct), a yellow light button (means that the student is SOMEWHAT confident but not 100% sure about the answer), and a red light button (means that the student is totally NOT SURE about the answer and could only "guess)...Then these choices will be also measured and weighted so that the next round of the quiz test (or if the student is to retake the quiz again), all those red light questions (and the wrong answers questions) will pop up again to strengthen the students' memory...

If somehow this could be implemented, I think this would be great for language teachers.

I'm now to Moodle, so apologies if this already exists and I don't know how to do these.

1. I want to produce low level picture vocabulary tests in different foreign languages so I would like to up load the pictures once into a test and then copy the test and just change the word. e.g. The first test in English would have picture 1. a cat , 2. a dog etc. and the pupil would just have to type in the corresponding word cat, dog etc. I would then copy this keep the pictures and just change the answers for another foreign language: 1. gatto, 2. cane etc.

2. An easy way to put foreign accents in at the moment I am copying and pasting from Word

3. Something to stop autofill. At the moment the pupil just types the first letter and then sees the rest of the answer.

I'd vote for QTI (both import AND export). It will very rapidly provide access to a wide range of assessment material as well as providing people with a way to migrate more easily.

At the same time, it will provide a good basis for the development of question structures, learning from the wider community (ie not just Moodlers)

In the UK, the TOIA project has just delivered its first iteration of a QTI based Assessment Management System. This is free to all HE/FE establishments, and I think it will make a real difference to the way people do assessements. Being able to trnsport question sets to and from the VLE will be an important part of this.

VLEs that can do it will have a big advantage.

Is there a way to make to produce a result based on score at end of Quiz?

I.e. a 70% result redirects them to a passing certificate.

I'm relatively new to moodle, but I'm a php mysql developer and an educator and would like to contribute since I really need the following quiz features for an Internet based class: 

• time-restricted attempts (with a countdown clock)
• submit questions one at a time
• javascript tricks to prevent copying (with javascript detection - don't allow quiz to be taken if javascript is turned off)

Please let me know if anyone else is already working on these features so I don't duplicate effort.

Hi,

firstly, now that you have done two of the options in the quiz poll, couldn't you remove those options and add two more?

my wishlist...

Ability to add more than 10 answers - one of my course creators wanted a 15 option multiple choice. Perhaps a button at the bottom to add new answer.

Rating/ranking questions - presented with a list of options and asked to rank them.

Description-only quiz - did you know that if you create a quiz that only contains a description, you get an error when you submit - it says no answers submitted or something. What we wanted was a "think about this issue" question - once the students have thought about it they click submit to see our answer - we wanted our answer hidden until they had thought about it - so I guess we were after the ability to add feedback to a description question.

cheers

My needs about the quiz module are by priority (decreasing order)

• support for importing QTI format questions (because I use Questionmark Perception and I would like to migrate my  work of 2 years to moodle)
• time-restricted attempts

It needs explainations : having a time limit for a test is not satisfying, because if you use random questions with several level of difficulty questions might not have the same time limit. So the teacher could choose a time limit long enougth to include the case when a majority of difficult's questions are given to the (unlucky ?) student. But in this situation a student with a majority easy questions would have a too long time. So in my modest opinion the best way to choose a time limit for a test should be calculated (dynamically for random questions) by adding each question's time and with a possible  multiplicator coefficient (range 0.8 to 1.2 by exemple) for the resulting time

• submit questions one at a time
• javascript tricks to prevent copying
• GUI for embedded answer questions

• "survey" mode ???? What is it supposed to be ???

Congratulations to the community for this nice tools that is Moodle, and it might become better and better day by day

Sorry for my poor english

• Paragraph questions - essay format answers that the tutor can manually grade
  
  
• Selective Release - will have a go using Bernard's Activity Linking but would like to make any activity/quiz available using set parameters such as "Test n score => 80" and/or "after Date a" and/or "until Date b"
  
  
• Random quiz questions grouped by Category, then by subcategory for each Question - We have used this in WebCT where each topic has a quiz with random questions. 
  
  Each Quiz Question has several possible questions eg for Question One there would be "question1_1", "question1_2", "question1_3" etc and each time a student took the quiz there would be several different (random) versions of the quiz.
  
  
• Short Answer Questions where you can have more than one answer eg. A question displaying a block of text with four different spelling mistakes then four different short answer boxes for the student to list the mistakes.  Each answer would have a grade attached, eg 5 correct answers would have 20% of the grade.
  

Hi All,

I'm relatively new to moodling as I term it.  I teach maths in high school with some students that have poor literacy skills.  When using the quiz module and the short answer questions, I receive many and varied spelling errors, too many for simply including the spelling mistakes in the answer list.

Is there any way I can edit the students responses to correct their spelling mistakes, as they get very discouraged when they get 5% on a test when all that it wrong with their answers is a typing or spelling mistake.

I have searched the internet and this moodle site but have not found anything relevant other than a similar query posted in 2003.

Sarah 

Martin, one of the items that has just came up is the need for us to have available in the excel downloads of the quiz results, the student login and maybe even the password.  We are a middle school (grades 6-8) and if I can download test results into excel and then link them using the login id (which is assigned to individual students) to our actual student id's then this would allow us to simplify some of our district reporting which we now do on scantrons.  And our teachers take hours to correct errors and scan then into the sytem.  Our teachers would probably build you a monument.

Bill Click, Modesto, CA.

SI unit compliance. As engineering Circuit Theory Spanish equivalent to "associate professor" I would like to enforce the International System of units or SI. This means that in a numerical question a student asked to answer for the value of, lets say, an electrical charge, must supply the numerical value and the SI symbol. The absence of symbol, an incorrect symbol or bad use must imply a wrong answer. For instance, an electrical charge of two coulomb must be answered as: 2 C. (number, one character blank space and capital character C).

The correct number of significant digits is also important from the engineering point of view, providing as an answer: 2 C; 2,0 C; 2,00 C or 2,000 C have not the same "correctness". Note that in some countries the comma is the decimal separator (check your bank account or your bills to see if this is the same in your country )

When speaking of integers, if the significant digits are not important, numbers in the [0, 999] range are preferred in the SI, the SI prefixes should be only used, for instance, as follows:

··· 1 nC ··· 999 nC, 1 µC ··· 999 µC, 1 mC ·· 999 mC, 1 C ··· 999 C, 1 kC ··· 999 kC, 1 MC ··· 999 MC, 1 GC ···, 999 GC, 1 TC ··· 999 TC, 1 PT ···

I think it is so complex that a SI compliance module would be of maximum interest.

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/index.html

http://www1.bipm.org/en/si/

• Extension to "Calculated" question type that allows grading in a more flexible way than a simple PHP formula. For example, grading could be accomplished by calling a gnu-octave's script/function, which may return a number between some range (0 and 1?) depending on question's parameters and student's answer.