Hi Douglas,
You're right - it's not easy to find an up-to-date, non techie overview. I can only suggest looking at videos like this one and others on YouTube:
and writing your own. You'll certainly be very popular if you do and put it online.
Cheers,
Glenys
PS There's always Mary Cooch's book "Moodle 2 First Look.
Hi Barfus,
If you go to Gordon's site:
you can look at 06_audio_b.htm and if it's the sort of thing you want to do, you can download the folder jcloze_dewplayer from the Legacy files area to see how I did it.
Using Dewplayer is just one possibility.
Cheers,
Glenys
Hi Chick,
This could be because the sound and image files have not been uploaded with the HP files and the links in the exercises are pointing to somewhere the "admin" role has acces and the "student" role doesn't.
Are you by any chance using groups and groupings?
Are you using the Hot Potatoes activity or QuizPort to display the exercises?
If you upload the exercises to Gordon's site, what happens?
Cheers,
Glenys
Hi Barfus, Gordon and everybody,
I thought your question, Barfuss, "Is it possible to make a similar comparison between "Adding the hotpot as an activity" (directly from the course frontpage) and "Adding the hotpot as a quiz" (importing it into the question bank)?" and Gordon's answer really useful. I'd like to take it further.
Like Gordon, I mainly use Hot Potatoes, these days through QuizPort, for making learning exercises and only use Quiz for testing.
However, I realise that it's partly because I'm just more familiar with Hot Potatoes and so it's quicker for me to create exercises that way. But recently Tim Hunt put up a list of Quiz Question Types and I realised that there are a lot of things that can be done in Quiz that I wasn't aware of. His list doesn't make explicit what each type actually does because that wasn't his purpose in making the list. I feel it would be really useful to have a list that does make that clear.
Stan Bogdanov has already done this and more for HP with his Hot Potatoes Taxonomy & Samples. People new to HP are often put off by the "look" of the exercises in Martin Holmes and Stewart Arneil's tutorials, for example: "How can I make it look like my website, and not web circa 2001. How can I add flashier graphics?" Jay asked recently (June 1) on the Hot Potatoes Users Group. Stan not only shows examples, he also provides tutorials on how to achieve this.
Deborah Delin is busy exploring what can be done with Xerte because it uses Flash and can integrate sound in a way Quiz and HP can't (or at least, I don't know how to do so) and also proposes different exercise types such as "hot spots" images and classifying. (See Deborah's blog and the Moodle for Language Teaching forum for more details.) I'd really love to be able to insert Xerte exercises into QuizPort but I don't know how to. Though Xerte is a html page, it can't be added to a QuizPort sequence like a "normal" html page.
Cheers,
Glenys
Hi Mary and Joseph,
I've never joined a fan club, but I'd join that one.
When I've used the Quiz results block, I've put up all the results but anonymously. It was for a "placement" test with a very heterogeneous class: the results went from 12/50 to 40/50. I couldn't actually put them in groups - all 45 students were in the same group. I felt it was useful for them to see where they were level-wise in relation to the others and to realise if they were very strong or very weak the course wouldn't be a perfect fit for them. I don't know if it was because of that, but I had very few complaints about the course being too easy or too difficult.
I didn't have the scroll of death problem, because I removed it as soon as everyone had finished the test.
Cheers,
Glenys