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.>

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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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  • ISABELA TERRA
    Thu, 29 June 2017, 6:53 AM
    Hello.
    I installed the Offline Quiz in Moodle 3.0 and I'am having problems with cron. Is there a way to put cron on a button on the screen for the user?

    Another detail, the answer form have no way out with the student's code and name?
    That would make life easier for teachers.

    Thank you very much
  • Thomas Wedekind
    Thu, 29 June 2017, 3:58 PM
    Hello,
    it is not possible to implement a button, since the cronjob takes a while to scan the pages (around 20 seconds per page on my local computer e.g.). We don't want the users to have to wait 20 minutes after a big upload, especially since you already should have a cron installed for moodle itself.

    About the real Name of the students: This is actually one of the most requested features, but not that easy to implement since the algorithm would not allow such a change at the moment. We are working on making this change possible in the mid to long future, but it's not the first priority at the moment.

    Best regards
  • ISABELA TERRA
    Thu, 13 July 2017, 8:31 AM
    Thank you for your information.

    Now I would like to know which ID number to fill in form for answers? I put the idUser and it is informing that there is no user.

    User ID Model: 0007627

    Thank you again.
  • ISABELA TERRA
    Wed, 9 Aug 2017, 5:55 AM
    Hi!! I solved the last problem. Sorry! I didn't see the configurations after installation.

    Now I need update Moodle to 3.3 version. In Test Moodle 3.3, I install OfflineQuiz and didn't have any problem. There are some information to me about this? It's work normaly..

    Thank you!!
  • Thomas Wedekind
    Wed, 9 Aug 2017, 2:29 PM
    The offlinequiz-plugin for 3.3 will be released very soon. We maid the plugin Boost-Theme compatible, thats why it took a little bit longer this time. We will make a comment here, once its released. If you want to use the beta-Version of 3.3 look at our master in the github repository.
  • ISABELA TERRA
    Fri, 11 Aug 2017, 4:22 AM
    Thank you Thomas!
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Mon, 14 Aug 2017, 12:22 PM
    We just published version 3.2.5 of the Offline Quiz plugin fixing a Boost theme related bug (questions could not be aded).
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Thu, 17 Aug 2017, 10:50 PM
    We just published a version of the Offline Quiz plugin for Moodle 3.3 – have fun.
  • Carly Born
    Mon, 2 Oct 2017, 10:20 PM
    Hi, I'm having a little trouble with the scanned PDFs being recognized properly. It seems like it is having trouble recognizing where the boxes should be on the page, and it's not recognizing the answer area at all. I wonder if this is related to the answer sheet being printed on 8.5" x 11" paper rather than A4 paper? I have some screenshots of what I am getting here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6I1jvY2f3bgN0VoUVN1bTNVV28 Can you provide any assistance?
  • Thomas Wedekind
    Mon, 2 Oct 2017, 10:27 PM
    hi Carly, unfortunately the offlinequiz only supports A4 at the moment. The US-Letter format is not supported. Its a feature we have on our list, but since its not easy to implement (the scanning algorithm is not easily changeable in that matter) this feature will not come very soon. Once our new scanning algorithm is rewritten, we will work on that feature.
  • Carly Born
    Mon, 2 Oct 2017, 10:54 PM
    Thomas, I tried printing on US Letter without scaling, and although the guides did match up the system still did not seem to know where the boxes were supposed to be. I was hoping that would work, but it did not. I tested the system with an A4 answer sheet, and it worked as advertised. Mostly I'm posting this as a warning to others in the US who might be struggling with this. Thanks for responding so quickly.
  • Carly Born
    Wed, 25 Oct 2017, 11:25 PM
    Hello again, I see from your git repo that being able to use the custom profile fields for the key identifier is on your list and possibly triaged. Do you have a roadmap that shows when this feature might become available? I'm hoping to be able to promote this module across my campus, but I need this feature to truly streamline the workflow. Thank you.
  • Rajesh Thingmax
    Thu, 2 Nov 2017, 2:23 PM
    Hi i am unable to run cron. If i run the moodle cron offline quiz is not detected in the process
  • Richard Samson
    Mon, 6 Nov 2017, 6:22 PM
    We are just starting to use this plugin. It is great. Congratulations!

    We have an issue that we don't know how to deal with. Most of our users have 8-digit IDs in the Moodle user table. But some earlier ones have only 6 digits. If we set up the formula as a[8]=username, the 8-digit students are identified correctly but not the 6-digit ones.

    Any help appreciated.
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Fri, 10 Nov 2017, 1:03 AM
    We just published version 3.3.2 of the Offline Quiz plugin for Moodle 3.3 (additional index for tables page_corners and scanned_page).
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