Deferred feedback with explanation

Question behaviour ::: qbehaviour_deferredfeedbackexplain
Maintained by TimTim Hunt, Anupama Sarjoshi
This question behaviour is just like deferred feedback, but with an additional input box where students can give a reason why they gave the answer they did.
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This question behaviour is just like deferred feedback, but with an additional input box where students can give a reason why they gave the answer they did.

No attempt is made to automatically grade the explanation, nor is it required. However, it may be used in various ways, for example

  1. The teacher may want to manually edit the grades where the student gave a wrong answer, to give partial credit if the student used the right method or approach.
  2. The student might want to explain their thinking, so that later, when the results and feedback are revealed, they are reminded of what they were thinking at the time, and so can reflect more deeply.

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  • jack captch
    Tue, 19 Apr 2016, 5:41 PM
    Thank you very much! This is what I was looking for!
  • jack captch
    Thu, 21 Apr 2016, 4:10 PM
    Hi Tim,

    When I choose Deferred feedback with explanation option in quiz settings it adds the "Give your reasons" option to all the questions in quiz, is there any option to deactivate it for some of the questions?

    Thanks in advance
  • Tim
    Thu, 21 Apr 2016, 4:12 PM
    Sorry, no.
  • Avrila Klaus
    Fri, 17 Feb 2017, 4:39 AM
    I'm interested in setting up quizzes in true-false-justify format (where students are expected to first classify a statement as true or false, then justify their answer). This quiz behavior combined with true/false questions is the first thing I've stumbled across that looks like it would do that conveniently -- the other options I've come up with are Cloze (which I find clunky) or alternating T/F and essay questions (which you couldn't then randomize the order of).

    Am I right that this will get the job done? Is there another way that would be easier? If the answers are yes and no respectively I'll push the button ASAP. Thanks!
  • Tim
    Fri, 17 Feb 2017, 4:54 AM
    The only options I can think of are the ones you give. I think this will meet your need. Do you have a test Moodle site where you can try it, before you install it into your real site?
  • H Singh
    Sun, 14 May 2017, 10:54 AM
    Thanks, Tim! When you created this plugin in response to my request, it really helped us. We have recently upgraded our Moodle installation to version 3.2. It does not appear that this question behavior has been ported to the latest versions yet. Can you please do that?
  • Tim
    Wed, 17 May 2017, 1:32 AM
    I have just tested, and this seems to work with Moodle 3.2 and 3.3 smile
  • Tim
    Sat, 17 Mar 2018, 12:19 AM
    Just pushed a new version that works with Moodle 3.2-3.4.
  • Peter Eliyahu Kornfeld
    Tue, 22 May 2018, 8:55 PM
    Hello Tim,
    Thank you for this plugin!
    A question: there is any page/report where the teacher can see the additional feedback in a concentrated form?
  • Tim
    Tue, 22 May 2018, 9:49 PM
    I think the explanations added will show up in the Responses report in the quiz. https://docs.moodle.org/35/en/Quiz_responses_report
  • Matthias Giger
    Sat, 4 Aug 2018, 8:38 PM
    Would it be possible to allow uploading files in the plugin?

    I'm asking because if this was possible, students could use the sketch ability in the editor (drawings) to explain their own thinking in mathematical questions.

    At the moment I'm using an additional free text question to achieve this goal, but implementing it directly into your plugin would be much more elegant.
  • Tim
    Mon, 6 Aug 2018, 5:37 PM
    It would be possible (using similar code to what qtype_essay uses). However, it would require someone to develop the feature. I am afraid that at the moment I have neither the time nor inclination to do that. However, if someone else is able to do the work, I would be delighted to receive a pull request to merge.
  • Emil Mandyczewsky
    Sat, 26 June 2021, 3:34 AM
    Is anyone seeing this plugin having problems in Version 3.11+?
  • Antonia Bonaccorso
    Fri, 19 Apr 2024, 10:06 PM
    Hi Tim,
    We evaluated this plugin for the use of commenting on questions in exams regarding quality of the question. A student might note down why he/she is confused by the question and the teacher might use this information to improve his style of asking question in future exams.
    It is very helpful that I can change the text and lable of the explanation via language file in these regards!
    We missed the possibility of commenting on open ended questions (like the essay question) and wondered, if there is a chance you would implement this possibility?
    We also wanted to see how easy it is to uninstall the plugin in case we decide to no longer use it in the future. It turned out that this is by no means easy. Also checking github we did not find any instructions on uninstalling the question behaviour. Could you give us some advice on this?

    Best regards,
    Antonia
  • Tim
    Fri, 19 Apr 2024, 10:14 PM
    Hi Antonia

    1. This is a fundametal issue with behaviours in Moodle. The way it works at the moment, you can only choose the behaviour for automatically graded questions. This needs to be fixed, and is on my todo list, but it is not obvious how to deal with it, so it has not happened yet. Anwyay, the OU wants this too.

    2. I think the issue with removing question behaviours is: Moodle will only let you remove the plugin if there are no question-attempts that use that behaviour. That is becuase, things would break if you remove a plugin that is required to review a particular quiz attempt. So, if you delete all the quiz attempts, then you can uninstall the plugin. Otherwise you can't. What you can do, on Manage question behaviours, is disable the plugin, which means that it can no longer be selected when editing quiz settings.
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