JazzQuiz

Activities ::: mod_jazzquiz
Maintained by George Schaathun, Sebastian Gundersen, André Storhaug
JazzQuiz lets the teacher run a preplanned quiz, but with the power of improvisation. Several improvise questions are included, which lets you quickly run a multichoice or short answer question during the quiz. You can also start a vote on the students' responses. After the session, you can review the responses for each question (even repolls). You can also download reports for attendance or responses in CSV.
Latest release:
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292 downloads
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Current versions available: 4

What is it?

JazzQuiz is designed to be used in face-to-face lessons. The teacher may plan questions in advance, but can also easily improvise on the fly.

Write your question on the blackboard, and select an appropriate question type from the dropdown menu. Several improvise questions will already be included: Short answer, multichoice (3, 4 & 5) and true/false. These are put in the default question category for the activity. If you want to add your own improvise questions, simply add them in that category and prefix their names with {IMPROV} like the default ones.


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 teacher can start a vote, with the selected responses, which students can answer.


The teacher can, at a later date, go back through the results and, for each question, see exactly what answer each

student gave. The repolls are treated as separate questions, and you will get a correct order in the review page.


Feedback

Project lead: Hans Georg Schaathun: <hasc@ntnu.no>

Developer: Sebastian S. Gundersen: <sebastsg@stud.ntnu.no>


Acknowledgements

The original plugin, Realtime Quiz, was written by Davo Smith: <moodle@davosmith.co.uk>

Afterwards came ActiveQuiz, funded by an educational innovation grant given to the Medical school, the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The plugin was rewritten to integrate the core Moodle question engine. John Hoopes: <john.z.hoopes@gmail.com>

JazzQuiz is a fork of ActiveQuiz, intended for different use cases. Initial development 2017-2018 was funded in part by Norgesuniversitetet (grant no. P34/2017) and undertaken by NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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Contributors

George Schaathun (Lead maintainer)
Sebastian Gundersen
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  • Sebastian Gundersen
    Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 2:50 PM
    Thanks for your feedback. The Moodle 3.1-3.4 and Internet Explorer compatibility issues have been fixed in v0.9.1. In addition, some other critical bugfixes as well.
  • Roland Sherwood
    Thu, 1 Nov 2018, 5:40 PM
    Huge thanks, Sebastian - and just to confirm that everything is working fine here now with IE. Really do appreciate your help with this!
  • Mark john
    Fri, 2 Aug 2019, 1:53 AM
    Wow, what a great article it is! Your posts are so interesting and providing me great information.This is really effective for us. Thanks for the shearing…
  • Florian Leupold
    Wed, 27 May 2020, 5:11 AM
    Thanks for this great activity! Just in the interest of house keeping, I was wondering whether it is possible to delete sessions, e.g. one that were only meant for testing.
  • George Schaathun
    Wed, 27 May 2020, 1:47 PM
    Of course, but that is done at the course level, like any other quiz activity, and thus has nothing to do with JazzQuiz. JazzQuiz does not maintain any data which is not part of the activity instance, so once you delete it from the module, it should be clean. If it isn't it is a bug.
  • scott hallman
    Thu, 20 Aug 2020, 9:56 AM
    Hi. we installed and tested Jazz quiz, after using active quiz for a while. The staff reports are well received, however we only just noticed that jazz quiz does not go to the gradebook and also does not give a report for the students to review previous attempts. Is there a way to turn this functionality back on so we can have the best of both worlds. Good reporting for staff and grade in the gradebook with a student review page
    Cheers Scott
  • George Schaathun
    Thu, 20 Aug 2020, 1:08 PM
    No, sorry. We designed JazzQuiz as a medium for spontaneous discussion and polling. Grading the students' answers was never part of the use case. Grading participation arguably could have been.

    I'll think about it, if it might be feasible to extend the scope in a future version, but it won't be soon.
  • Joan Codina Filba
    Tue, 8 Sep 2020, 9:12 PM
    Hi, it looks great but my institution uses version 3.9 sad I see that the last supported version is 3.7
    Have you tested with that version of moodle? Are there plans to support this version?
  • George Schaathun
    Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 12:11 AM
    Sorry about that.
    Yes, it was my intention to keep it up to date, and I think it unlikely that it does not work with 3.9 without too much trouble, but because of the pandemic, I find myself not using JazzQuiz this year. I'll have a look and see if I can do some testing and a release next week.
  • Florian Leupold
    Mon, 14 Sep 2020, 9:03 PM
    On the note of compatibility with Moodle v3.9 I would like to mention two things that I think do not work properly (even though I have no comparison to earlier versions). First, while editing Jazz Quiz' content, filtering by tags does not work (the selected tag just disappears upon the automatic refresh), and neither does unticking any of the three check boxes underneath ("Show question text..." etc.). Second, the Vote button always appears greyed out such that it cannot be clicked. Can you confirm this?
  • Florian Leupold
    Mon, 14 Sep 2020, 9:06 PM
    George, thanks for your reply on May 27. What I meant to be asking was whether it is possible to delete session reports (under the rightmost tab of the three tabs "View" – "Edit" – "Report") inside a Jazz Quiz instance without deleting the instance itself.
  • P H
    Sat, 23 Jan 2021, 6:22 PM
    Hello. This plugin seems very useful and I would very much like to give it a try. However, my installation is v3.9. I have read George's comment (on Sept 8) and also Florian's comment (Sept 14) about problems on a 3.9 installation, and I wonder if there have been any developments and if the plugin is still actively maintained. I would appreciate it if you let us know.
  • George Schaathun
    Sat, 23 Jan 2021, 9:15 PM
    Sorry about the low activity and long delay. My intention is to keep maintaining it, but I am not in a situation where I can make promises. Last year was particularly bad. Now I will have to have a serious look at all the Moodle plugins that we maintain over the next few weeks, and get them up to date with new versions of moodle. I think we can manage that at least.
  • P H
    Sun, 24 Jan 2021, 12:02 AM
    That's good news George!
    Yes, 2020 wasn't the best of years, was it? Better days ahead hopefully.
    Thank you and as the French say, "bon courage"!
  • George Schaathun
    Tue, 26 Jan 2021, 8:04 PM
    I have tested JazzQuiz with Moodle 3.9 and 3.10 and there seems to be no problem.
    I need to talk to another developer before I make an official release, but hopefully in a few days.
    About deletion of reports, that will probably have to wait, but I'll look into it.
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