Quiz

Hi Tim!

Things are not always so simple  !

This is my situation: I'm working in an asynchronous flipped learning environment where some students decide to take an "exam" (an automated test to decide if they are able to sustain an assessment - prepared by the teacher - of their mastery of skills) while others are engaged in learning activities. The group of students taking the exam changes with time and with respect to the learning module they are studying: the existence of groups of variable geometry precludes the use of the proposed strategy. Furthermore the presence, in the same class, of students who take the exam and others who don't, forces me to change the password every day.

I therefore ask for the possibility to define a password automatically calculated.

An example.

In the quiz settings there should be the possibility to choose between a standard password and a calculated one. In the second case there would be provided four (or more, or less) fields where to put formulas: the password should be computed by concatenating the strings obtained from the calculations. If the variables y (for year), m (for month), d (for day) and h (for hour) are available, together with simple mathematical functions (+, -, *, /, INT), one could e.g. enter the following formulae

d+h*2
INT(y/100)+h
m
y-100*INT(y/100)+24-h

to define an automatically computed password which requires some work to guess.

At 5 october 2015 h 17 the four fields give respectively 39, 37, 10 and 22 so the password should be 39371022.

Then, the best should be to have the password displayed automatically on the quiz page, only for teachers (of course). This helps to eliminate problems arising from the difference between local and server time.

Thanks

Please read my previous post which sets the situation. Public disclosure of the password allows students who take the exam to access it, but students not taking the exam cannot look at it at home because the password they know has expired in the meantime. If things work automatically I am not forced to go crazy to continuously activate and deactivate the quiz.

That said, the password should be automatically disclosed to the teacher, not to the student: it is the teacher that says the password to the student.

The reason to disclose the password to teachers is the following: I would like to share my courses with others - students and teachers - but I don't want to allow teachers to edit them, therefore they can't set a personal password to quizzes. At this point it is easier to give them directly the password than to say them which is the function which creates it. Indeed, this saves also my time  ...

Suppose now that the teachers using my courses live in a different time zone: there could be confusion concerning the hour (and perhaps the day) to use when calculating the password. Giving it directly to them is the better solution.

Web browsers have become increasingly aggressive in auto-filling passwords into web forms. This is a serious pain. Probably what happeend is that some teacher's web browser filled in the password field of these quiz forum without the teacher wanting that to happen.

Recently, they tried to do a work-around for that, probably in Moodle 2.9.2.