Activities: Offline Quiz
MC Offline quiz module
The Moodle MC Offline quiz module adds
paper-and-pencil multiple-choice quizzes to Moodle. In offline quizzes
students mark answers to questions on a sheet of paper (the answer
form). The students' answer forms are evaluated and graded automatically
by the offline quiz module.
More precisely, a complete offline quiz consists (at least) of the following steps:
- A teacher creates an offline quiz in Moodle and adds multiple-choice questions, all-or-nothing multiple-choice questions or description questions (text) to the quiz. This is very similar to creating online quizzes (standard Moodle quizzes).
- From the question lists the teacher creates question sheets and answer forms as PDF (DOCX) documents using the module.
- The question sheets and answer forms are handed out to students for the actual quiz. The students mark the answers they think are correct in the answer form.
- The teacher scans the filled-in answer forms and uploads the resulting images into the offline quiz. The scanned answer forms are evaluated and graded automatically by the module.
- If necessary, the teacher corrects errors that might have occurred due to mistakes made by the students or due to bad scan quality.
After results have been created in an offline quiz, students can review their result as usual. If the teacher allows it, students can also see the scanned answer forms and which markings have been recognised as crosses.
The module supports up to six groups which are not related to Moodle course groups. Each group can contain a different set of questions in a different order. Separate question sheets and answer forms are created for the different offline quiz groups.
The module also supports lists of participants which are useful for checking which students actually took part in the exam. Lists of participants are pre-filled with students in Moodle. PDF versions of those lists can be created in the module for easy marking during the exam. The marked lists can be uploaded and evaluated automatically.
Example
The offline quiz module is used intensively at different Austrian universities for mass exams. Hundreds of students can be easily examined at the same time (given enough seating space in lecture halls) without the need for expensive e-testing equipment.
Installation
Copy the module code directly to the "mod/offlinequiz" directory. Open the messages page in the administration area to automatically start the installation.
The automatic analysis of questionnaires requires the activation of an appropriate cronjob (see README.txt).
Admin settings
As an administrator you can set the default values instance-wide on the settings page for administrators in the MC Offline quiz module.
- formula for participant identification (text field)
- mix questions (checkbox)
- mix answers (checkbox)
- logo URL (text field)
- copyright indication (checkbox)
- settings for exam inspection (checkbox)
- decimal places (drop down)
- paper's white level (drop down)
- 1-click inscription (checkbox)
- role for inscription (drop down)
- saving days (text field)
Useful links
Screenshots
@Joao Have you set up the cron successfully? If not please follow the instructions at https://docs.moodle.org/36/en/Cron If that still doesn't help feel free to create an issue in our official github repository at https://github.com/academic-moodle-cooperation/moodle-mod_offlinequiz
The current version available for 3.6 (2019012901) is referencing files that do not exist within its dir structure
#require_once($CFG->dirroot . '/mod/offlinequiz/report/rimport/scanner2.php');
#require_once($CFG->dirroot . '/mod/offlinequiz/report/rimport/positionslib.php');
Introducing this file as is will break the scheduled task page, amongst other things.
Regards
-Eseosa
thank you for your report.
Yes there is a bug in 3.6.2. You can fix this by changing line 1440 to " $DB->delete_records_select('offlinequiz_choices', 'id ' . $querysql, $queryparams);"
then it will work,
We will publish a new fixed version soon.
I have a difficulty with a long offline quiz of about 100 questions, so my answer form is printed on 2 pages.
Offline Quiz corrects easily the first page, but I have a lot of errors with the second. In most cases, I have to identify it manually as the second page.
I have not find how different pages of the same answer form are differentiated.
How can I have a best result?
Have I to create 2 different offline quizzes?
thanks for trying out our plugin.
the plugin uses a bar code at the bottom right to identify the page number, which is only evaluated, if there is more than one page.
We didn't have any big problems with the multi page feature yet and it is tested quite well, even though not many people use it.
Have you tried using a different white value of your paper?
Have you tried using a higher DPI for the scans?
greetings
Thomas
The plugin, in version 3.4.2, worked perfectly when installed on Moodle version 3.4.
After upgrading to Moodle 3.5, I updated the plugin to version 3.5.4 and after this update the plugin has stopped working (it does not correctly recognize scanned pages).
In an another Moodle installation (development) I installed versions M3.6 and M3.7 with the plugin in their respective versions and could not make it work, as it has the same problems of not recognizing the scanned pages.
My current situation is as follows: I have Moodle version 3.5.2 with the plugin installed on version 3.4.2 working perfectly.
Any idea what might be going on?
Ricardo
When uploading my answer sheets I receive a message "3 answer form(s) is/are pending evaluation", and it stays there I never receive an email and it never show in the results.
I'm on Moodle 3.7 and also use the 3.7 plugin
the evaluation is done via scheduled tasks (also called cron)
have you set up your moodle instance to run cron? https://docs.moodle.org/37/en/Cron