Dear Joanna,

Sorry to hear about these issues, which indeed go beyond this plugin. I have noticed this behavior of the Assistants API of OpenAI not being able to extract file content with some of my test files as well, but wasn't able so far to determine a pattern. Have you tried maybe to export your file to a different file format? Let's hope this will be solved by OpenAI themselves, though.

As for the failed tasks, the Moodle documentation states that "The task will be retried after 1 minute. If the task keeps failing, the retry algorithm will add more time between each successive attempts up to a max of 24 hours.". I believe there is currently no way in Moodle to remove failed adhoc tasks from the queue unless going through a database manipulation, but I might be wrong.

I will try to remove the superfluous empty question categories in case of a failure in an upcoming release.

Best,

Christian

I tried generating questions from the Japanese PDF, and all the questions that were generated were in English.
Are there any plans to add Japanese support in the future?
I think there is a lot of demand for it in Japan too.

Thanks,
Mizuki

Dear Mizuki,

Thanks for pointing this out! This is something that could be adjusted in the prompt. I plan on having user-editable prompts in upcoming releases.

Best,

Christian

does this plugin work for Course format in quiz mode?

Hi Christian,
The plugin was installed and launched. However, after clicking the Generate Questions button, it returns to its original position. For a moment (and then immediately disappears) I noticed the message "This page should automatically redirect. If notting is happening please use the continue link below". It is impossible to click CONTINUE. The message disappears.
Help solve the problem, please.
Moodle version 4.5, plugin version 0.1.4

Dear Adren,

I'm not quite sure what you mean.

Dear Nicolay,

I'm unable to reproduce your issue. Could you please open a ticket on the GitHub repository?

Best,

Christian

Hi,
Sorry, but I'm not a developer and I don't use GitHub (in this case). I'm just a user. Please watch the video (by reference).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Z0QKa8c1ei9zxK7PIMHqZbfFUCCRNcC/view?usp=sharing

Best regards,
Nicolay

Hi Nicolay,

Thank you for the video. The shown behavior is normal. Once the ongoing background tasks are done, questions should appear in a new dedicated category in the question bank of your course.

What surprises me is that you still have ongoing tasks from 2 days ago. Check in the ad-hoc tasks / ongoing tasks / task log in the site administration for errors. Did you set an OpenAI API key ?

Best,

Christian

Hi, Christian
Yes, indeed. There was an error in the key. Thanks for your help.

I would like to clarify:
the plugin uses only the resource file?
file format - only doc (docx)?
pdf and txt are not supported?
by default 10 questions are created (type multiple choice)?

Best regards,
Nicolay

Hi Nicolay,

Supported file formats of OpenAI's Assistant API can be found here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools/file-search#supported-files

The prompt is for the moment hard-coded and produces 10 questions by default. In upcoming versions of the plugin, the prompt will become adaptable.

Best,

Christian

Can this plugin support calling other big language models?

Hi Siming,

For the moment, it is limited to OpenAI's API, using GPT-4o.

Best,

Christian

Trying this in a clean Moodle 5 install and fear I may be jumping the gun.

Getting the error: Adhoc task failed: qbank_genai\task\generation_task,Error writing to database

Any ideas?

Dear Julian,

Thank you for raising this point! Indeed, an adaptation was needed regarding the feature of shared question banks introduced in Moodle 5.0. Let me know if this works for you.

Best,

Christian

Hi Christian,
The "qbank_genai“ Plugin is not functioning as expected in Moodle 4.5.2.

Steps to Reproduce:
01. Log in to Moodle v4.5.2.
02. Select any existing course.
03. Enable "Edit Mode."
04. Click "Add an activity or resource."
05. Choose the "File" option, update the necessary details, and upload a file (e.g., text.pdf).
06. Click "Save and display."
07. Disable "Edit Mode."
08. Within the course, select the "More” Dropdown and choose "Generate Questions."
09. Select the uploaded file and click "Generate Questions." button


Issue:
1. The status shows "The following generation tasks are ongoing" indefinitely and never completes.
2. Upon checking, the status indicates "error" with 9 tasks failing.
3. Only option is delete the record via database system.
DELETE FROM mdl_task_adhoc WHERE id=80;

Note: Verified the OpenAI API key and have sufficient fund so no issues on the API keys.

Logs:
Please find the detailed logs attached for your review and guidance.

Details
Fail delay: 1 day - Remove temporary write access from controlled links (repository_onedrive\remove_temp_access_task)
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 11
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 12
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 13
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 17
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 18
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 19

Thanks