Joseph Rézeau

Hi Rick,

I am very interested in the possibility for students to author their own questions and quizzes in Moodle. I am especially thinking of my language teaching students at an advanced level, who need to practise their authoring skills. Up to now I've used Hot Potatoes for that, but I would be interested in using Moodle's own quiz as well.

As I have already explained at length here, I am not interested in using quizzes for testing, but for learning purposes. In that perspective, I am a little disconcerted by your approach which seems to consider a quiz as a hapazard collection of questions. For me, a quiz is certainly not a random collection of questions, but a well-constructed set of questions, of varied types, usually graded (starting with easier questions and finishing with harder ones), etc. This is why I would never ever use the "random questions" facility in Moodle quiz building. I have no use either for a "question bank" or for publishing questions. In my practise, any particular question can only belong to one quiz. I consider it equally important to teach my (language teaching) students how to build a quiz as to teach them how to create individual questions.

Of course, I do appreciate that there are completely different teaching/learning situations, where a large question bank of hundreds or thousands of questions from which a certain number can be randomly selected to build a testing quiz is needed. But this is not my situation.

Joseph

Bonjour Arnaud,

A priori je dirais que la réponse est Non. Gordon Bateson a fourni un travail de développement considérable pour intégrer Hot Potatoes à Moodle.

As-tu une raison particulière pour vouloir utiliser Netquiz pour créer tes exercices plutôt que Hot Potatoes ou l'outil Quiz (Test) de Moodle?

Joseph

Hi Andrew,

Just tested your new Content Choice question type in Moodle 1.7.1+.

Installation works OK. The only problem is that one has to overwrite one's current distribution of lang/quiz.php file in order to add your various contentchoice strings. This is a real problem for any new question type.

I found it quite easy to create a new content choice question.

You say "this type of question could be made with the multiple choice question type. However, the advantage of this question type is that it offers the teacher input techniques that can save valuable time."

I am not convinced that using ContentChoice saves much time over using the standard Multiple Choice question type. Maybe it would save time if I had lots of such questions to author, I can't tell. As it stands, ContentChoice can hardly be called a new question type. It would be more interesting (but, of course, much more difficult to program) if the various underlined "hotwords" in the text were made into clickable "hotwords", rather than being "inactive" underlined words and being "repeated" in the traditional MCQ a,b,c,d, format underneath.

At the moment it is not possible to export/import ContentChoice questions in Moodle XML format. This is another problem with new question types, you'll have to hack the XML format file in order to provide that facility.

Hope that helps,

Joseph

Amy,

1- Here is the principle of my spreadsheet formulas. Suppose during one term I have 4 forums, which are teacher-rated on a 0-5 scale. Let's take 2 typical students, student A and student B .

Formula in cell I3 (student A) =MIN($I$6;SUM(G3;H3/2))

Formula in cell I4 (student B) =MIN($I$6;SUM(G4;H4/2))

Formula in cell J3 =MIN($J$6;SUM(F3;I3))

Formula in cell J4 =MIN($J$6;SUM(F4;I4))

I must admit I have not explained this system to my students and I don't know if I should.

2- Teacher's role: Omniscient but invisible. I agree.

Joseph