Joseph Rézeau

Spaces were never meant to be used for "presentation". Have you tried to use non-breaking spaces? You say you try to "upload a quiz in xml". Do you in fact mean you are importing a set of questions to the Moodle question bank? Can you attach the xml file so we examine your problem?

Remember that the more information you provide in these forums the more likely people will be able to help you.

Joseph

Unfortunately you did not say which question type you want to use.

Hi Katie,

Are you using the word "Lesson" in the sense of the Moodle Lesson activity or in the general sense of "course"?

It seems to me that easiest way to obtain what you want would be indeed to use Moodle's Lesson activity, where you can tune the student's path (forwards or backwards) according to their answers to the questions being asked.

Joseph

Hi Katie,

#1.- I expect the reason why you ask this question is that your question pages consist of a text of a certain length, such that when the student has responded to the question asked at the bottom and the page is re-drawn, they have to scroll down to the bottom of that page to see the question and their response and the feedback message. The problem we have with question pages in the Lesson activity is that the "reading" contents of such pages can display a wide variety of "length" (text, images etc.). Sometimes - as I presume in your case - the "reading" contents will be large, at other times they will be minimal. It would be feasible (although not easy) to modify the Lesson activity script (programme) to obtain the behavior you want. But, that behavior may not be desired by other Moodle users.

#2.- For your second request (taking the student directly to the next page upon a correct response) this feature may be desireable in some cases and not at all in other cases. You are forgetting the importance of the positive feedback messages in computer-aided instruction (or maybe you don't need such feedback at all in your teaching strategies with Moodle's Lesson activity).

Here is the scenario when you ask e.g. a multiple-choice question.

• Student selects one of the incorrect choices -> teacher provides a so-called "negative" feedback message which normally has 2 parts:
  • telling the student why that choice is incorrect;
  • guiding the student towards the correct choice (hinting, etc.).
• Student selects the correct choice -> teacher provides a so-called "positive" feedback message which may have one or more of the following parts:
  • congratulating the student;
  • confirming that the choice was correct (so-called "re-inforcement" function)

Note-. for the benefit of the student who randomly selected the correct choice, the congratulations are not deserved, but the re-inforcement part is essential.

I hope that helps.

Joseph

Hello Jérôme,

Nous voici à la Chandeleur... Tu pourrais peut-être maintenant "ranger" le mur de souhaits pour 2011 ? et le mettre de côté pour 2012.

Joseph