StudentQuiz

Activities ::: mod_studentquiz
Maintained by TimTim Hunt, Frank Koch, Dragon Dionysius
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.
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Students 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

GNU General Public License v3.0

Screenshots

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Contributors

Tim
Tim Hunt (Lead maintainer): Lead Maintainer
Frank Koch: Maintainer
Dragon Dionysius: Maintainer
Lukas Dürrenberger: Previous maintainer
Simon Schaefer: Previous maintainer
Philipp Albrecht: Previous maintainer
Luca Bösch: Contributer
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  • Jane Robertson
    Mon, 16 Nov 2020, 10:43 PM
    Hi Frank and everyone - I am new to this plugin and using it for the first tiem with students - and just cannot work out how students can view their own questions before they are approved. e.g. when they are awaiting approval or when they have been asked to make changes. The permissions look correct but does anyone have any suggestions? I am using 3.5. Many thanks, Jane
  • Frank Koch
    Tue, 17 Nov 2020, 12:59 AM
    Hi Jane, please watch the tutorial video https://tube.switch.ch/videos/d91a8a0d to find out about the basic faunctions of StudentQuiz. Please also make sure that the setting "Question publishing" is set to 'Automatically publish new questions'.
  • Jane Robertson
    Tue, 17 Nov 2020, 2:55 AM
    Thanks for replying so quicky Frank. Yes I have watched your video and looked through the documentation. What we need is for students to see the questions they have created before they are approved/published (greyed-out) but only teachers can see unpublished questions. e.g. A teacher has made suggestions for changes that she wants the student to make before it's available for otehr students, however the student doens't have access to change this question. I hope that explains it better. I saw there was a new update so we are going to update the plugin to see if that makes any difference
  • Dragon Dionysius
    Tue, 17 Nov 2020, 4:30 AM
    Hi Jane, are you using the latest StudentQuiz? There has been a bug fix (https://github.com/frankkoch/moodle-mod_studentquiz/issues/275) where students couldn't see their hidden questions which is shipped with StudentQuiz v4.4.0
  • Jane Robertson
    Tue, 17 Nov 2020, 4:41 PM
    Thanks - I will check. I have asked for the latest release to be installed today so hopefully that will solve it - sounds like it will - must have missed that on the list of improvements. Thanks!
  • Jane Robertson
    Tue, 17 Nov 2020, 9:34 PM
    The update worked - thanks everyone
  • cyber sec
    Sat, 21 Nov 2020, 3:53 AM
    I try to keep quizzes under 20 questions, but sometimes it cannot be helped.

    If a learner goes to the StudentQuiz activity, and selects "Start Quiz" The quiz will go through the first 20 questions, and then it will appear the quiz is over. This even if the questions on the next page are checked.

    The learner needs to go back to the first page of the activity, then select the next page. This can be confusing to some. Some will think the quiz is simply over. This is unfair to the learner.

    I noticed there is a "page length" that can be set, to include all questions, but that is only for the current session, there seems to be no way to make it stick.

    Is there any way I can set this so "Start Quiz" will through all the quiz questions?
  • Jane Robertson
    Mon, 23 Nov 2020, 5:55 PM
    Hi everyone, just wondering how folks manage the 'changed' state of a question - do you as the tutor change it so it is a valid question straight away or do you suggest changes to the student so they change it? If it's the second option, how would you easily go about that? Thanks again!
  • Frank Koch
    Tue, 24 Nov 2020, 3:30 PM
    Hi Jane, if you as the tutor want to change the question yourself, there's no need to put it into state 'changed'. Just go ahead and, once you're satisfied, give it an approval.
    The state 'change' ist used to indicate students that they should improve the question by themselves. This way, of course, they learn much more. You probably also want to leave a comment about what you expect from them, and that they should inform you once the change is done, such that you can reconsider the question for an approval.

    Please note that student-authors cannot change questions anymore once they are in state 'appoved' or 'disapproved'.
  • Jane Robertson
    Tue, 24 Nov 2020, 8:51 PM
    That makes sense, thanks Frank
  • Samuel Sánchez sanz
    Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 1:23 AM
    Hola.
    Antes de nada darle la enhorabuena por su trabajo.
    Queria saber como podría adaptar la funcionalidad de mis preguntas falladas a todas las preguntas dentro de un curso o del banco de preguntas, me refiero que pueda incluir las preguntas creadas por los profesores.
  • Jamie Zelenak-Hyre
    Wed, 30 Dec 2020, 7:32 AM
    We are interested in turning this plugin into a way for organizations to help develop new questions. Would we be able to get any assistance with some recommendations to do this - it is something in great demand in the online exam administering industry.
  • Frank Koch
    Wed, 30 Dec 2020, 1:42 PM
    Hi Jamie, I'm interested to learn about your ideas. Please get in touch with frank.koch (at) ost.ch
  • cyber sec
    Fri, 15 Jan 2021, 5:33 AM
    How do allow guests to use this activity?
  • Tim
    Fri, 15 Jan 2021, 8:56 PM
    When you say 'guest', what exactly do you mean? That concent has several different meanings in Moodle-world.

    StudentQuiz (like most things in Moodle) has fine grained capabilities, so you can configure which roles can do what. The quickest way to get an answer to your question might be to experiment.
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