Glenys Hanson

Hi Ryan,

I think there's maybe a bit of a vocabulary problem.

In ordinary English "quiz" and "test" are often used interchangeably.

Here I'll use "test" to mean "assess a student's knowledge".

"Quiz" is a native Moodle module/activity which creates various interactive quizzes (QCMs, gap fill, etc.) and is primarily designed to make tests but can also be used for learning exercises.

"Hot Potatoes" is an non-native module/activity which also creates various interactive quizzes (QCMs, gap fill, etc.) but they're primarily designed to be learning exercises (students get helpful feedback and can explore until they find the right answer).

One of the exercise types in in Hot Potatoes is called JQuiz - it produces mainly MCQs.

Hot Potatoes exercises can be uploaded and integrated into Moodle in 4 different ways :

1. As HTML pages: the scores are not recorded in the Moodle gradebook.
2. Through the Hot Potatoes Module (exists for Moodle 1.9 - has to be turned on by the admin & Moodle 2 - has to be added as a plugin). The scores are recorded in the Moodle gradebook.
3. Through the QuizPort Module (exists only for Moodle 1.9 - has to be added as a plugin). This has more sophisticated ways of presenting the exercises and guiding the student through sequences of exercises. The scores are recorded in the Moodle gradebook.
4. They can be imported into the Quiz module where they appear to the student just like other questions created in Quiz itself.

Hope that helps,

Glenys

Hi Bohdana,

Nice to see you here.

Yes, you can control that with QuizPort.

When you create the exercise (or edit it), scroll down to the section  "Access control" and click on the "Show advanced" button.

Then in Delay 3 "Time delay at the end of the quiz" you will find a dropdown menu which will give you several possibilities.

I choose "Wait till student clicks OK" so they they can decide how long they want to look at the completed exercise.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Ashley,

I run a site for an association with a lot of interactive exercises for ESL / EFL students. As I'm a Silent Way teacher, they may not be your cup of tea but they are available free to anyone interested under a Creative Commons Licence, see Une Education Pour Demain (yes, a French site, but many of the courses are in English).

Cheers,

Glenys

Bonsoir Jean-Luc,

Je suis bien jalouse de tous ceux qui peuvent voir vos tutoriels vidéo. Dans un petit village en Franche-Comté le soi-disant haut-débit est trop faible pour visionner vos vidéos en confort. Pensez-vous les mettre sur YouTube ou similaire où les péquenots pourraient en profiter aussi ?

Cheers,
Glenys

Hi Gordon,

Now the popup help window is working beautifully in QuizPort on my local server too.

Thanks a lot.

Cheers,

Glenys