Moodle plugins directory: Active quiz | Moodle.org
Active quiz
John HoopesThis is a type of quiz designed to be used in face-to-face lessons, with a classroom full of computers/tablets/phones.
The teacher creates the quiz in advance - adding question bank questions from the Moodle question bank. (This includes any question type available for Moodle)
The quiz can be set up to take the quiz in class groups (set up through the Moodle built in groups functionality). Group attendance may also be used in order only give present group members the final grade.
During the lesson, the teacher starts the quiz. Students can now connect to this quiz. Once the teacher is satisfied that all students have connected to the quiz, they can click on "Start Quiz"
Depending on the question settings the question will end automatically, or will need to be ended via the instructor's "end question" button. The instructor can review student responses in real time and re-poll the same question, go to the next question, or jump to any question set up for the session.
The teacher can, at a later date, go back through the results and, for each question, see exactly what answer each student gave. Students will also be able to view their attempts based on the display options in the quiz settings. Grades are also recorded based on the module settings for whether or not this particular quiz was assessed.
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The original plugin (real-time quiz) was written by Davo Smith, to which the University of Wisconsin - Madison (funded by an educational innovation grant given to the Medical school) re-wrote the plugin, which is now named active quiz.
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Is there any way to delete attempts? In the process of testing the courses I want to delete and then reattempt the active quiz results numerous times. If an attempt remains then it ruins the completion data for the course. Apparently Active Quiz isn't available to 'reset' like the other types of activities and grades/attempts can't be deleted that way.
You've made a great plugin and I appreciate any help you can give me!
Please reference this issue: https://github.com/jhoopes/moodle-mod_activequiz/issues/34. My apologize on not being able to delete attempts. Seems like a basic feature that I left out when initially building this plugin. Unfortunately, I have enough issues for version 3.7, and so I'm going to push this to version 4, which I hope to have released by April 1, along with a lot of other upcoming features.
You can follow along as I add new issues for each of the releases here: https://github.com/jhoopes/moodle-mod_activequiz/milestones
John
If you still want a site where you can have an account to try out the activequiz module, I think I can provide that for you tomorrow if you will communicate directly with me (junkinwf@eckerd.edu) so that I can give you a user name and a password. The site will have both the activequiz module and the ipal module. Both allow for in-class polling and you may want to try out both.
Here is a brief summary of some of the differences (as far as I know):
1) activequiz puts an entry for the polling in the grade book and grades all those with automatic grading. Ipal doesn't put any entry into the grade book.
2) Ipal has apps for both the Android and iPhone platform so that students can answer questions with their smart phones. Activequiz has no apps but both allow for answers from web-enabled devices.
3) activequiz allows for timing of questions while ipal has unlimited time (until the teacher stops polling for that question).
4) Ipal allows questions to be added after a session has started while activequiz does not.
5) activequiz allows for all types of questions to be used while ipal is restricted to multichoice, true-false, and essay questions.
6) ipal has a real-time spreadsheet for all answers
7) activequiz supports multiple sessions with the same questions while ipal requires the teacher to duplicate an activity of she/he wishes to use the question set over again.
8) ipal interacts smoothly with several other optional modules (attendance and ejs)
I hope this helps.
I just use this in one or two high school classrooms, but id be happy to contribute some money for the development of this feature?
I am trying to figure out why you want the extra noise in your classroom. Also, the research that I am familiar with indicates that the greatest value of in-class polling comes when students discuss their answers, either with each other, or with the class as a whole, and do this before they know what the "correct" answer is. However, I have never taught in the high school environment and, if you find this is desirable, I may be able to help you. A lot will depend on the type of devices that students use to respond to questions and the browser they are using. If you would like me to try and help you, it may be best if we communicate directly. My email address is junkinwf@eckerd.edu.
Continue with the last conversation we've had on Sep 17, 2015, we are really looking forward to the function which teachers can export the response result into a CSV after ended the real time active quiz. Currently, teachers can only make a screenshot of the bar chart in class to keep a record of what did the students' respond. Is there any update about this function?
Many thanks for your great contributions and we will look forward to your reply.
Best wishes,
Lina
Thanks to everyone that has given feedback thus far!
On that note, please could I quickly query whether you have any plans to update the plugin to be fully compatible with Moodle v3.1, and its new Global Search feature in particular? To clarify: while we’ve tested the Active quiz plugin under v3.1 and all of the core functionality seems to work fine, we’ve found that instances of the activity are not searchable via v3.1’s Global Search feature. Please see the following screenshot for details, which lists all of the available areas that can searched under v3.1 (note that these settings are available via: Site Administration -> Plugins -> Search -> Manage Global Search):
http://imgur.com/lWWQByE
Note also that the above screenshot was taken on a v3.1 system where the Active quiz plugin is installed and available. However, as you can see, the Active quiz activity is not listed as being available to be searched. Obviously, this is likely to be a significant problem/cause of confusion for users who might want to search for specific instances of the Active quiz activity across Moodle.
I’m not a developer, but my understanding is that mod plugins can be made searchable relatively easily via the addition of a new search class within the plugin’s codebase (located at ../classes/search/activity.php). Please see the following for further details:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=334938
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Global_search
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Search_API
We really hope this search capability can be added to Active quiz as I’m sure it would be a huge benefit to our users (as well as those of other v3.1 systems) and, again, many thanks for all your efforts to develop this plugin and share it with the community.
Best wishes,
Lina
After creating an active quiz, a teacher starts a new session to test the active quiz. The teacher chooses a choice in the question, then click the “end questions”. After trying all the questions in the active quiz, the teacher closes the session. And the responses from the teacher is stored in the “view responses” section.
(Screen shot 1: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1c9VF5O)
(Screen shot 2: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1pL8PlVX)
Then, the teacher asks the students to join in the active quiz in the class. The “fully anonymise student responses” setting is not ticked, as can be seen below. After students answer the questions in the active quiz, they cannot see the response history.
(Screen shot 3: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1gf4vNkJ)
(Screen shot 4: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1slesZX7)
However, I duplicate the active quiz and keep the session setting the same with the one before. Then I let students to answer the question in the new active quiz, without teacher trying the questions at first, students can see the response history.
(Screen shot 5: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1midhqqO)
Though a teacher is not a normal ”student”, it should not cause problem for the sessions later after the teacher answers the questions in active quiz. It is really confusing since many teachers are willing to have a try before using the active quiz in the class. And reviewing response history plays a significant role for students. I really hope this bug can be fixed soon.