Moodle plugins directory: StudentQuiz
StudentQuiz
Dragon DionysiusStudents like quizzes to prepare for exams. However, it’s hard to create all the questions needed for assessments and exams. That’s where the Moodle plugin StudentQuiz comes in. StudentQuiz enables students to collaboratively create their own question pools within Moodle. This allows a better learning experience because knowledge is actively constructed by the learner, not just passively received from the environment. And even if an individual student contributes a few questions only, a larger cohort can easily build up an extensive question pool.
In StudentQuiz, learners can create individualised quizzes. They also add their feedback to each questions by rating and commenting while working through the quizzes. Students can see their personal learning progress, and they can compare their contribution and competence with their peer group. Furthermore, the created questions become part of the Moodle question bank and can be reused in standard Moodle quizzes.
The teacher can approve/disapprove questions, or hide or delete questions. The teacher can also configure:
- whether students’ names are displayed or kept anonymous.
- whether questions are published right away or have to be approved first.
- the number of points assigned to questions contributed and answers given.
- what user roles to exclude from participation.
- what questions types are allowed to be added to the pool.
- whether students are enforced to rate questions.
- whether students are enforced to comment questions.
The video StudentQuiz in a minute provides a quick introduction. There's also the 16 mins video Tutorial for Teachers.
StudentQuiz is available in many languages. Please feel free to add your language to the AMOS translator.
Installation
The simplest way to install the StudentQuiz is by going to the Site administration -> Plugins -> Install plugins page.
You can try StudentQuiz without installing on the StudentQuiz Demo Page.
Upgrade
For changes and instructions please read the Release Notes.
Documentation
You can find manuals for each role in the manuals website. For technical issues and help raise an issue in our Issue Tracker.
Compatibility
See Versions tab.
Refer to the Moodle release notes for the minimum requirements for PHP and the databases. Other modern browsers should be compatible too, it's just not tested or developed against them explicitly.
Contributing
Please help translate StudentQuiz into your language on AMOS.
Feel free to submit code changes as Pull Request or help people and universities around the world in our Issue Tracker.
License
Screenshots
Contributors
I like your suggestion of an admin setting (a bit like the one to let admins control which roles teachers can change the settings for).
1. setting the number of shown questions aka page size (default=20) to e.g. 100 doesn't get remembered when you edit a question and save. the same is true when using the filters in the question overview.
2. the sizing of the questions seems to not be limited resulting in the preview, edit question, delete, and show buttons (and all other content on that row after it) to be off screen. So you have to scroll side ways. many students cannot find these controls.
I'd be happy to supply a screen shot but cannot add that here.
3. how do we see whether students have made changes to a question after we have put them into "changed" state. The documentation doesn't explain this workflow. For example, a student submits a questions. We ask them to make changes. Set the state to "changed", they get informed by email, edit the question to fix the problems, ....
How do we find these questions that have undergone fixing?
I believe I've found a bug. When you look under ranking it seems that the "published question factor" doesn't get applied or rather only once the questions are approved. I understood that any question created would be considered a published question and trigger than score.
Thanks for your help.
1. Ah, yes, when there is >20 questions and you do as you say, it resets. I will add that defect to our backlog (probably to be fixed in the M4.0 compatible version).
2. Could you confirm the theme, please? I cannot replicate in the OU theme or on our vanilla Moodle test server (Boost). Could you open an issue on https://github.com/studentquiz/moodle-mod_studentquiz/issues as that allows screenshots.
3. The question history, and the 'Ready for review' status, were introduced in recent versions of StudentQuiz. I believe that we've also improved notifications, though that may be coming in the M4.0-compatible version. We were also planning on question versioning, but then that appeared in Moodle 4.0 and saved us a tonne of work
4. If you are using the "teacher approval required for publishing to cohort/group" mode, a question is only deemed published once approved.
I think the student quiz in the ranking does not filter out people according to the "restrict access" criteria, which I assume it should.
thanks for looking into this.
We are not yet ready to release it here, but we have now put the code on github on the main branch https://github.com/studentquiz/moodle-mod_studentquiz. If you can help us to test that, that will help us feel confident to to release it here sooner.
Since this is a big change, I would strongly recomment that you check out the new version on a test copy of your Moodle site - and ensure you have a backup, in case the database upgrade goes wrong in some unexpected way.
If you can, please provide feedback from your testing using github issues https://github.com/studentquiz/moodle-mod_studentquiz/issues, but if you are only able to comment here, we will see it.
As ever, please report any issues found to github.
If you create a question in the test editor, then the inserted picture is not displayed in the text of the question when solving the test. Although the picture is displayed in the preview of the question.
Why are the links different?
In preview.php ->/pluginfile.php/306589/question/questiontext/739864/1/86403/1.png?time=1666721977339
Link breaks in attempt.php ->/pluginfile.php/306589/question/questiontext/739866/1/86403/1.png?time=1666721977339
Also, if the question is placed in the "Bank of questions" and already from the "Bank of questions" is inserted into the test, then the picture becomes available.
How to fix this problem? Thanks for attention.
4.7.1 is a bug-fix release for Moodle 3.x, which fixes the bug where images in questions do not appear.
5.1.0 is a a more significant release for Moodle 4.x - and we can confirm it works with Moodle 4.1 as well as 4.0.