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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
But my question was more about the possibility of a random selection of questions than about the spliting of the question bank into different categories.
Let's say that there are100 questions in a StudentQuiz session. I dont want the students to see the whole bank of question, but I want them to perform quizzes made of 20 questions randomly chosen among the 100 of the whole bank. My question is : is there a possibility construct the quizz based on 20 questions randomly chosen (instead of chosen by the students) ?
In fact, I would like to combine the features of the regular moodle quiz (build a quizz with limited number and randomly chosen questions) and the features of studentquiz (rating, commenting, etc...)
Is there a way to reach this ?
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In this context a restriction setting would be useful, which allows the administrator to restrict the question type plugins that are activated for use with StudentQuiz Plugin. For example, only core plugins could be enabled, as they may be more thoroughly tested interacting with the StudentQuiz Plugin (than external plugins). Also for performance reasons, the administrator could have the requirement to restrict users from using certain question types, e.g. STACK.
Currently, only teachers can set these restrictions in their courses, but not the administrators globally.
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.