Peter Ruthven-Stuart

Tim

I think you'll find that it's not yet possible to upload more than one [Embeded Answers (Cloze)] 'item'.

It is possible to upload multiple items written in the 'GIFT format', but not the [Embeded Answers (Cloze)] 'item'. This obviously raises the question of, why then have an import feature for this format? I believe that the answer to this is, 1) it allows you to make questions offline and then upload them (one at a time) when you have a connection to the Internet, and 2) I was told that at some point someone would probably write some code to make multiple item imports possible. 

Here is one possible solution that does not require any alterations to the moodle code:

1. Set up a Forum called 'Word of the Day'
2. set it so that all students are automatically subscribed to this forum
3. Turn on the 'Glossary Auto-Linking' Filter
4. Post to the Forum; in the post include your 'word of the day', which is a word in your glossary

• As long as 'Glossary Auto-Linking' Filter is on, and the option, 'This entry should be automatically linked' has been checked, then the word when clicked on will take your students to the relevant section of the glossary.

Obviously, this solution is not automatic, but it would only take a minute or so to post to the 'Word of the Day Forum'. You could then have students use the same forum to demonstrate they understand the word, etc.

Ken,

It is possible that the 'Glossary Auto-linking' filter is inactive.

Can you access your moodle as an administrator? If so, go to Admin > Filters, and make 'Glossary Auto-linking' active.

It's also possible (in version 1.5 and up) to further fine tune text filtering in the config.php. Have a look for these lines in your 'config-dist.php', and add as appropriate to your config.php:

// Enabling this will make most text-based filters only match the first time
// a phrase occurs in a given text.  Otherwise all are matched.
//      $CFG->filtermatchonepertext = true;
//
// Enabling this will make most text-based filters only match the first time
// a phrase occurs in a given page.  Otherwise all are matched.
//      $CFG->filtermatchoneperpage = true;

Dan,

So, it is not at the moment possible to create adaptive questions - despite what the help files suggest. The only thing that comes close to adaptive questions is to add feedback containing hints, as explained above.

If you want to make adaptive questions now, my suggestion is to use the Hot Potatoes software, and then use the HotPot module to import them into moodle.

Specifically, use the Hot Potatoes JQuiz template. Then, within that template set the question type to 'Hybrid'. A hybrid question first requires a student to type in an answer. If a student gets this wrong a number of times (this number can be set by the question maker), then a number of choices will appear from which the students can choose. Each choice can have feedback to further guide students towards the correct answer. This 'adaptive' type of quiz already exists in Hot Potatoes, and I imagine it is what the writer of the above mentioned help files was thinking about. Let's hope this feature becomes a reality .

Satish,

Once you have installed the Questionnaire module- see Helen's message above -, you will then be able to access the Questionnaire help files, the links to some of which I have typed above. Note that you will have to replace the part of the link in yellow with the url of your own moodle.