Quizventure

Activities ::: mod_quizgame
Maintained by John Okely, Stephen Bourget
Part of set Gamification.
Quizventure is an activity module that loads quiz questions from the course it's added to. The possible answers come down as space ships and you have to shoot the correct one.
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Students procastinating too much? Are they playing games instead of studying? Well now you can motivate them by allowing them to do both at once!

Quizventure is an activity module that loads quiz questions from the course it's added to. The possible answers come down as space ships and you have to shoot the correct one.

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John Okely (Lead maintainer)
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  • Ziyad Muslat
    Thu, 5 Mar 2015, 12:36 AM
    Hi John,
    I have tested the activity. IT works really great. I think it would be a very useful activity for engaing students in online activities. However, It seems to pull the questions from the whole question bank. It would be more effecient for instructors to use if question categories can be assigned in this activity. Adding a grade element would also more motivating to students as they would see their game acheivement being reflected on their course progress.
  • John Okely
    Thu, 5 Mar 2015, 11:21 AM
    Hi Ziyad, what version of Quizventure are you using? Older versions used all quiz questions, but now you can set the category in the module's settings.

    Good suggestion about the grade item. Not sure how I could predict a maximum grade considering the game just keeps going. But it's definitely something that could be good to add!
  • Stephen Parry
    Fri, 3 Apr 2015, 3:16 AM
    Hi, I like this plugin very much, but I've noticed a couple of issues:
    - Sometimes killing the correct answer leaves some incorrect ones off screen - making the next question very confusing.
    - multi-answer questions are included but only the first correct answer is used. You should have to kill all the correct answers.
    - Some resolutions / browser combos don't seem to work I will report further on this later.
  • John Okely
    Mon, 13 Apr 2015, 10:59 AM
    Thanks Stephen.

    I have seen the bug in point #1 before, any idea what causes it? I haven't been able to work out exactly what to do to reproduce it yet.

    With point #2, how would you expect multi answer questions to behave? To me it made sense to have to destroy all the correct answers, but perhaps it's better to make it so you can destroy any answer worth 100% to win.

    And thanks in advance for the report on browser compatibility issues etc, I will need to start looking into more browser combinations
  • vitoria moraes
    Thu, 30 July 2015, 5:02 PM
  • Chris Simpson
    Wed, 12 Aug 2015, 11:01 AM
    Hi John,

    Just wondering if you had a chance to look at the error message i showed/emailed to you at the moot in Clayton. I have a few people keen to use this but still doesnt work on our site.

    Cheers, Chris
  • John Okely
    Wed, 12 Aug 2015, 4:30 PM
    Haven't figured out a solution yet, unfortunately. The best option may be for you to clean the questions of that not found type out of the db. But It may be possible that they are created by a strange question type.

    Really, it's a problem with the quiz API that it fails completely when you have a non-existent question type, but I'll need to look into that some more
  • Rene Vendrig
    Tue, 8 Dec 2015, 12:53 AM
    Hi John,

    Thanks for this great plugin. When I start the game it automatically goes to full screen, is it possible to switch that off? I also want to change the width settings to 100% if I go back from full screen to normal screen but I can't find the file where I have to change that.
  • John Okely
    Tue, 8 Dec 2015, 12:15 PM
    Thanks Rene for reporting this issue.

    I've fixed the fullscreen problems and uploaded a new version of Quizventure. Let me know if it works for you
  • Rene Vendrig
    Tue, 8 Dec 2015, 10:26 PM
    Hi John,

    Thanks for your fast respond. It works now good for me in full screen mode and in normal mode. But I have a other issue, sorry. When the game ends you have a option "Press space or click to restart". That doesn't work, only with a refresh of the screen I can continue.
  • John Okely
    Wed, 9 Dec 2015, 2:50 PM
    Thanks Rene for letting me know! I've fixed that bug now, should be back to working order!
  • Rene Vendrig
    Wed, 9 Dec 2015, 10:10 PM
    Hi John, it works perfect now. Thanks for solving this.
  • Jaroslav Novak
    Fri, 1 Jan 2016, 11:37 AM
    Hi John,

    Thanks for a great plugin! It has been working fine for months but recently it stopped working.. I get this message: Can not find data record in database table qtype_multichoice_options..
  • John Okely
    Mon, 4 Jan 2016, 12:03 PM
    Thanks Jaroslav. I've seen this error before and I want to fix it, but I'm having trouble working out replication steps. Do you know what was done just before it stopped working? For instance, uninstalling a question type or even just deleting a question from the question bank.
  • Emanuele Aloi
    Thu, 17 Mar 2016, 6:30 PM
    very nice plugin!is it possible replace the moodle's logo with a spaceship?
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