StudentQuiz

Activities ::: mod_studentquiz
Maintained by TimTim Hunt, Frank Koch, Dragon Dionysius, Hieu Vu Van, at the OU (Perry building)Mahmoud Kassaei
StudentQuiz enables students to collaboratively create their own question pools in Moodle. Students can filter these questions into quizzes, and they can rate and comment questions while working through the quizzes. StudentQuiz computes each students contribution and learning progress and compares this with the community. The created questions become part of the Moodle question bank and can be reused in other Moodle quizzes. The video "StudentQuiz in a minute" tube.switch.ch/videos/d0e37788 provides a quick introduction.

StudentQuiz v5.4.0

Moodle 4.4, 4.5, 5.0
Released: Friday, 26 September 2025, 10:43 AM

Change log for the StudentQuiz activity

Version 5.4.0

  • This release is compatible with Moodle 5.0.
  • Changes to use the editor based on the system setting.
  • Adds a new feature to use a customized button set with the TinyMCE editor.
  • Fixes a bug to clear the comment/reply input field after submission when using the Tiny editor.
  • Fixes an issue to allow questions from a StudentQuiz to be reused in other StudentQuizzes.
  • Calls the require_login function for StudentQuiz pages to resolve the missing userid parameter error.
  • Fixes pagination issues.
  • Fix coding style issues and automated tests.
  • Resolved performance issue caused when deleting users from the Moodle system.
  • Remove legacy support for unsupported M3.5 version.
  • Fixes an issue that caused errors when restoring a StudentQuiz with questions that have multiple versions and are disapproved.
  • Add visually-hidden class to support Bootstrap 5.

Version 5.3.0

  • This release fixes some security issues. You are strongly recommended to upgrade.
  • This release is compatible with Moodle 4.4.
  • Fixed an issue with activity completion in Moodle 4.3.
  • History table now supports anonymous users properly.
  • Improve performance of statistics calculations.
  • Fix some layout issues.

Version 5.2.1

  • Added Compatability with Moodle 4.3
  • Fixed a bug with permission checking of state changes.

Version 5.2.0

Mainly a bugfix release, but with one new feature adding activity completion.

This version works with Moodle 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2. (4.3 support is being worked on.)

  • New feature: You can now set automatic completion rules like 'Students must author at least 3 questions' or 'Students must score at least 42 points'.
  • An improvement to set the state of the question in the Moodle question bank (draft/read) based on the state of the question in StudentQuiz.
  • New actvity icon to match the Moodle 4.x style.
  • Fix to ensure that only the right notifications are sent when using separate groups mode.
  • Fix to permission checks on questions in separate groups mode.
  • Fix display order of the question list, including pinned questions.
  • Fix an issue that prevented the use of question types where the student responds by uploading a file.
  • Fix backup and restore of availability information.
  • Fix questions sometimes being incorrectly set to state Disapproved.
  • Fix the wording of one of the notifications.
  • Fix to the 'delete orphaned questions' task.
  • Fix the layout of some buttons in Moodle 4.2.
  • Technical fixes (automated testing config, coding style, improved tests for backup and restore).

Version 5.1.0

This is basically a bugfix release. Also, we can confirm it works with Moodle 4.1 as well as 4.0.

  • Show the question version number in StudentQuiz.
  • ... but don't show the Status column. We don't want to expose students to the concept of draft questions.
  • Improve validation when editing StudentQuiz settings.
  • Fix an issue where StudentQuiz events did not show in the calendar/timeline.
  • Fix a bug where names were swapped in emails about anonymous ranking.
  • Improvement to make the 3.x -> 4.x upgrade more robust.

Version 5.0.0

  • The focus of this release was getting the plugin to work again after the Moodle 4.0 question bank changes.

Older releases

Where not documented here. See the releases on GitHub. https://github.com/studentquiz/moodle-mod_studentquiz/releases

Version information

Version build number
2025070700
Version release name
v5.4.0
Can be updated from
v5.3.0 (2024092000)
Maturity
Stable version
MD5 Sum
f87e283cca030d1e014144ae3e21245a
Supported software
Moodle 4.4, Moodle 4.5, Moodle 5.0
  • Latest release for Moodle 4.4
  • Latest release for Moodle 4.5
  • Latest release for Moodle 5.0

Version control information

Version control system (VCS)
GIT
VCS repository URL

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type Activities

  1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
  2. Download and unpack the module.
  3. Place the folder (eg "assignment") in the "mod" subdirectory.
  4. Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to finish the installation