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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  • kumar SAURAV
    Mon, 26 Mar 2018, 6:07 PM
    But is it possible to do so? Should i contact a php developer for this?
  • Thomas Wedekind
    Tue, 27 Mar 2018, 2:31 PM
    It is possible, it's just a question of effort. The evaluation of the answer sheets is the most error-prone part of this plugin. changing the amount of answers that fit on a sheet will need a lot of changes in the code, because the plugin was not written with changing the sheets in mind, sadly. We are in the process of rewriting the evaluation, but it takes a lot of time.
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Mon, 7 May 2018, 8:21 PM
    We just published version 3.4.2 of the Offline Quiz plugin (see CHANGELOG.txt).
  • Dinis Medeiros
    Mon, 7 May 2018, 9:43 PM
    Invalid get_string() identifier: 'offlinequizclosed' or component 'offlinequiz'. Perhaps you are missing $string['offlinequizclosed'] = ''; in mod/offlinequiz/lang/en/offlinequiz.php?

    line 349 of /lib/classes/string_manager_standard.php: call to debugging()
    line 7083 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to core_string_manager_standard->get_string()
    line 373 of /mod/offlinequiz/classes/structure.php: call to get_string()
    line 305 of /mod/offlinequiz/classes/output/edit_renderer.php: call to mod_offlinequiz\structure->get_dates_summary()
    line 160 of /mod/offlinequiz/classes/output/edit_renderer.php: call to mod_offlinequiz\output\edit_renderer->offlinequiz_information()
    line 360 of /mod/offlinequiz/edit.php: call to mod_offlinequiz\output\edit_renderer->edit_grades_page()

    Is this OK?
    $string['offlinequizclosed'] --> Missing
    $string['offlinequizisclosed'] --> Exists
  • Dinis Medeiros
    Mon, 7 May 2018, 9:56 PM
    Changed mod/offlinequiz/classes/structure.php line 373, error GONE
    From
    $dates[] = get_string('offlinequizclosed', 'offlinequiz', userdate($offlinequiz->timeclose));
    To
    $dates[] = get_string('offlinequizisclosed', 'offlinequiz', userdate($offlinequiz->timeclose));
  • Nicolas Dunand
    Wed, 9 May 2018, 6:03 PM
    Hi,
    Thanks for this plugin!
    We just tested this on the current Moodle 3.5 beta, and it looks like it is working. Will you support 3.5 officially in the short term?
  • Thomas Wedekind
    Wed, 9 May 2018, 7:07 PM
    Hi Nicolas,
    yes, we will support 3.5, but probably not on day 1. How fast we will release a version for 3.5 will depend on how many bugs we find and how fast the development for the privacy API is done.
    I'm also not aware of any problems using the 3.4 plugin in 3.5, I haven't found any errors.
    But do that at your own risk.
  • Bruno
    Fri, 18 May 2018, 1:44 AM
    Hello everyone, first i would like of say this mod is awesome, congratulations!
    I just have a question, the answer form have no way out with the student's code and name?
    That would make life easier for teachers, if no, there date for release? thanks very much
  • Girish Belkar
    Tue, 22 May 2018, 12:30 PM
    Hello
    Thanks for the plugin. It say quiz can be exported to LaTeX and Docs as well. Can anybody tell me how to do it?
  • Thomas Wedekind
    Tue, 22 May 2018, 2:52 PM
    @Bruno No, thats not possible at the moment and there is no change planned at the moment.
    @Girish Belkar: You can change the type of the output-file in the configuration of your offlinequiz instance.
  • Girish Belkar
    Wed, 23 May 2018, 11:18 AM
    Thanks Thomas
    But that option is locked and I am unable to change
  • Girish Belkar
    Wed, 23 May 2018, 11:28 AM
    Ok Got it. I need to delete the generated doc before changing
    Thanks Thomas
  • Girish Belkar
    Wed, 23 May 2018, 12:11 PM
    Two issues
    1. Is there way to numbering the questions.?
    2. Can the marks for the questions be displayed?
  • Girish Belkar
    Wed, 23 May 2018, 3:13 PM
    Is it possible to include short answer question?
  • Thomas Wedekind
    Wed, 23 May 2018, 9:36 PM
    1.) Aren't they numbered already? the numbers are generated automatically during document creation time
    2.) You can do that by changing the settings for "Print question grades" in your offlinequiz-instance
    3.) At the moment only single-choice, Multiple-choice and description-questions are allowed. Any other question types are not supported.
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