Offline Quiz

Activities ::: mod_offlinequiz
Maintained by AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
The Offline Quiz activity allows the creation of multiple choice tests with questions from the question bank of a Moodle course, which are handed out to students in printed form. After completion, the answer forms are scanned and can be automatically evaluated online directly in Moodle.
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Offline Quiz

The Offline Quiz activity allows the creation of multiple choice tests with questions from the question bank of a Moodle course, which are handed out to students in printed form. After completion, the answer forms are scanned and can be automatically evaluated online directly in Moodle.>

No support in the comments section on this page! See below for bug reports and support.

Usage

Teachers want to conduct the final examination of a course with several hundred students in a lecture hall. For this purpose, an offline quiz is created in a Moodle course and the quiz is filled with questions from the question bank. To make copying more difficult, the lecturers decide to create several groups in the offline quiz that contain different questions. The forms are then generated, downloaded and printed out.

Two forms are handed out to students during the exam: the questionnaire (contains the questions and answer options) and the corresponding answer sheet (form with boxes to tick the selected answers). After the exam, all answer sheets are scanned and uploaded in the offline quiz of the Moodle course for evaluation.
Forms that could not be automatically evaluated by the system, e.g. because the ID number was incorrectly ticked or ticks or crossed out ticks are unclear, must be corrected by the teachers in the offline quiz.
Teachers can now allow students to view their exams online, where they can, for example, see the points they have achieved and check that their ticks have been recognized.

Note: The question types multiple choice, description and all-or-nothing multiple choice are currently supported. Questionnaires can be downloaded in PDF, DOCX or LaTeX format.

Documentation

You can find a documentation for the plugin on the AMC website.

Bug Reports / Support

We try our best to deliver bug-free plugins, but we can not test the plugin for every platform, database, PHP and Moodle version. If you find any bug please report it on GitHub. Please provide a detailed bug description, including the plugin and Moodle version and, if applicable, a screenshot.

You may also file a request for enhancement on GitHub. If we consider the request generally useful and if it can be implemented with reasonable effort we might implement it in a future version.

You may also post general questions on the plugin on GitHub, but note that we do not have the resources to provide detailed support.

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Contributors

AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation (Lead maintainer)
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  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Wed, 8 June 2016, 10:52 PM
    Dear Dino,
    thanks for sharing your thoughts and problems with us.
    May I ask you to check the documentation as well as your settings concerning the Offline Quiz Module. If you still will remain having these issues I would recommend to post all issues with the moodle Offline Quiz Module in github — the official bug tracker for all AMC modules.
    Thank you so much.
    Cheers Kataryzna Potocka
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Tue, 14 June 2016, 5:16 PM
    We just published a version of the Offline Quiz Plugin for Moodle 3.0 – have fun.
  • C'est moi :-)
    Tue, 14 June 2016, 10:11 PM
    Nice for the Moodle 3.0 compatible version, thanks.
    The Moodle 3.1 compatible version is still planed for september? If you could make it sooner, it would allow other people/universities to test it before september, also allowing you to gain time wink
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Thu, 16 June 2016, 3:10 PM
    Yes, it is still planned for September. Maybe we can publish it a little bit earlier, but I can't promise that.
  • Niall Sheehan
    Thu, 16 June 2016, 9:27 PM
    Having issues with this plugin and Moodle 3.0.2. From documentation unable to determine method to create Question sheets. Zip file download is always corrupted. Many questions are displayed as question number, however the question and answers are blank. This appears to have lots of potential, if I can figure out these issues.

    Thank you
  • Niall Sheehan
    Mon, 20 June 2016, 9:12 PM
    This is a fantastic plugin, I hope. We are having issues with the lack of documentation and trying to figure out some fairly basic information to continue testing.
    Problem 1: We assign students, the ID number is not populated, under participants, is this 'normal'?
    Problem 2: Answer sheets uploaded, not able to determine how to grade the sheets. There is a message indicating X answer form(s) is/are pending evaluation. IF this is where the CRON job is required, add that text so it reads: X answer form(s) is/are pending evaluation. Run the CRON Job to complete grading.
    Problem 3: Found a page to import a list of participants, no information on how this file needs to be laid out to import, if it is required, etc

    Thank you
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Tue, 23 Aug 2016, 8:24 PM
    We just published a version of the Offline Quiz Plugin for Moodle 3.1 – have fun.
  • Dinis Medeiros
    Tue, 20 Sept 2016, 6:29 AM
    Sorry but i need help: For the evaluation of answer forms an additional cronjob has to be installed.
    Can you help me? http://www.escolaagricolavendasnovas.com/moodle/
  • Dinis Medeiros
    Mon, 26 Sept 2016, 9:38 PM
    In Cpanel, what is the command to work?
    http://imgur.com/a/QEDi1
    I after execution, always this:
    http://imgur.com/a/RE53Y
    Any help? Thanks
  • Thomas Wedekind
    Mon, 26 Sept 2016, 9:50 PM
    The second command seems about right. Do you have the right user executing the cronjob? The user running the cronjob has to have the same rights as the user your webserver is running with.
  • Dinis Medeiros
    Mon, 26 Sept 2016, 11:32 PM
    I changed the offlinequizz cron.php to run it via web interface (true/false): http://dinismedeiros.webtuga.net/moodle/mod/offlinequiz/cron.php
    I don't understand your question? I'm a newbie. Can you more explicit?
  • Trần Nam Định
    Mon, 26 Sept 2016, 11:58 PM
    Error occur when I export question with equation.? Can I fix it?
  • Dinis Medeiros
    Wed, 28 Sept 2016, 5:55 AM
    This is the log of cronjob:
    X-Powered-By: PHP/7.0.11
    Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    Any help?
  • Thomas Wedekind
    Mon, 10 Oct 2016, 11:32 PM
    @Dinis Medeiros: The cron can't run with the webinterface. I can't see any errors without further looking into your setup, I'm sorry. From my perspective your setup should work as intended.
    @Trần Nam Định Can you give me more specific information? What did you do to get the error? What was the exact error message? If you want to report a bug, just report it at our bugtracker here: https://github.com/academic-moodle-cooperation/moodle-mod_offlinequiz
  • Dinis Medeiros
    Sat, 15 Oct 2016, 4:33 AM
    Any help?
    I only access my server via cpanel.
    Can anyone tell me what is the full line of the command in the cronjob? PLEASE! I have: php /home/pm1yedpj/public_html/moodle2/mod/offlinequiz/cron.php
    http://imgur.com/a/HJg3k
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