Flex Quiz is an activity module for Moodle. It creates quizzes in an automated manner, allowing teachers to test the knowledge of their students in a dynamically adapting way without the need for manual quiz creation.

Moodle 3.8+

After installing the Flex Quiz plugin, you can change its settings in the administration menu by going to "Plugins / Activities / Flex Quiz". There you can specify if you want to allow the AI powered mode for your Flex Quizzes. Note that you can still change if AI should be used for each Flex Quiz activity individually. In the plugin settings you just globally specify your AI API credentials. For more information on basic mode vs. AI mode, refer to the Modes section futher below. If you are just getting started with this plugin you may experiment with basic mode first, before trying out AI mode.

If at some point quiz creation should fail or is not possible, the "Flexquiz children cleanup" task of this plugin will resolve any issues the next time it is run. You can access it via "Scheduled tasks" in the "Server / Tasks" part of the administration menu. It is recommended to run it once per hour with the default minutes setting "R".

Once installed and set up, you can create Flex Quiz activities inside your Moodle courses. In the creation form you have following plugin specific fields:

Once a Flex Quiz activity has been created, each enrolled student of the course will start getting quizzes that he/she solves over the span of the activity's duration. This also works retroactive, i.e. if a student gets enrolled after a Flex Quiz activity has been created, he/she will also be enlisted in the activity and starts getting quizzes as well. However, this will not happen immediately but only on the next scheduled task run (See Plugin setup > Server tasks section above).

Each student always has up to one active quiz per Flex Quiz activity created inside a course. On completing the quiz, a new one will start until there are no more eligible questions for this student. Eligibility of questions depends on a student’s past performance and on the active cycle - in general, questions where the student performed worse will appear more often than questions where the student performed better.

Each question which is part of the question pool will be used at least once per cycle for each student. Completed quizzes will be removed automatically, there is no need to clean them up manually. Once the Flex Quiz has reached its end date, no more new quizzes will be created.

Grades of the Flex Quiz activity will be updated with each quiz completion (There are no grades for individual quizzes spawned by a Flex Quiz activity though, only for the whole activity). You can see the grades of each student in the activity's overview at any time. Students can see their own grade when they view the activity's overview as well.

A Flex Quiz supports the following two modes:

The questions used in each quiz are determined by an AI providing smart individual selection based on the skills of each student. This mode requires an AI connection to be set up and correctly configured via the plugin admin settings.

To get information on the AI setup for this plugin and how to get an API-key and the API-url, please contact us at https://danube.ai/contact. The first month of API usage is free.

Selection is done in a much less sophisticated way, albeit there are mechanisms in place to ensure that each student has to answer every question that is part of the question pool at least once per cycle. Questions which have been answered correctly will not reappear within the same cycle unless the "Minimum number of questions" setting enforces it.

The Flex Quiz does not have any other plugin dependencies, but it supports using the Flexible Sections (https://moodle.org/plugins/format_flexsections) format to keep the quizzes generated by the activity organized inside your courses. If a course has the Flexible Sections format enabled, for each Flex Quiz activity, a collapsible section will be created where all student quizzes are put inside. Note that this does not work retroactive, i.e. if you enable the Flexible Sections format after a Flex Quiz activity has already been created, for this particular Flex Quiz activity no section will be created.