Record audio/video question type
Question types ::: qtype_recordrtc
Maintained by 
Tim Hunt, 
Chris Nelson, 
Mahmoud Kassaei
A manually graded Moodle question type, where the student records a short audio response to answer the question asked.
Latest release:
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Current versions available: 4
This question type is like the standard essay question type, but instead of writing some text, students have a recording widget where they can record some audio (in future, we plan to also add video recording). We've basically taken RecordRTC (https://docs.moodle.org/38/en/RecordRTC) and implemented it as a question type.
We consider this an evolution of an Essay question with RecordRTC buttons available to students. We have essentially taken the existing parts and distilled them into a specific question type for the ease and convenience of teachers designing quiz questions and for the students taking them.
Like the standard essay question type, it still requires human grading.
While this question type has obvious uses in Moodle Quiz, it has been primarily designed to be used in an embedded question context (see https://moodle.org/plugins/filter_embedquestion).
This question type has two behaviours: deferred feedback, for use in formal Moodle Quiz tests where a tutor would mark the students' recordings; and a new self-rating behaviour, where students mark themselves.
The self-rating behaviour is used essentially whenever the behaviour is interactive or immediate. We have assumed two use-cases: 1) the student listens to a 'model' audio clip and then records their attempt to follow it. They compare the two clips, and then rate their mimicry. Or 2) the student attempts to pronounce a written sentence verbally, and the feedback contains a model pronunciation clip, allowing the student to then compare the clips and self-rate their accuracy.
This plugin was created by The Open University UK, specifically for its School of Languages and Applied Linguistics.
We consider this an evolution of an Essay question with RecordRTC buttons available to students. We have essentially taken the existing parts and distilled them into a specific question type for the ease and convenience of teachers designing quiz questions and for the students taking them.
Like the standard essay question type, it still requires human grading.
While this question type has obvious uses in Moodle Quiz, it has been primarily designed to be used in an embedded question context (see https://moodle.org/plugins/filter_embedquestion).
This question type has two behaviours: deferred feedback, for use in formal Moodle Quiz tests where a tutor would mark the students' recordings; and a new self-rating behaviour, where students mark themselves.
The self-rating behaviour is used essentially whenever the behaviour is interactive or immediate. We have assumed two use-cases: 1) the student listens to a 'model' audio clip and then records their attempt to follow it. They compare the two clips, and then rate their mimicry. Or 2) the student attempts to pronounce a written sentence verbally, and the feedback contains a model pronunciation clip, allowing the student to then compare the clips and self-rate their accuracy.
This plugin was created by The Open University UK, specifically for its School of Languages and Applied Linguistics.
(We hope that we could look at giving Essay a self-rating behaviour next, which could be used in a similar embedded fashion as an alternative to Pattern Matching sentences. Although if you're thinking about that area already, you might find Gordon Bateson's essay auto-grade plugin of interest.)
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Tim Hunt (Lead maintainer)
Chris Nelson: Product owner
Mahmoud Kassaei: Developer
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My team were investigating this plugin and after testing decided to pursue a different solution due to the need for iOS-compatibility. I've run into an issue when trying to uninstall it. The Question Instances Report claimed to see 2 instances on our system, one visible and one hidden. I went in and deleted the visible instance, and the Report changed to only show the hidden instance, as expected. I then went in and found the hidden instance, and deleted the quiz containing it. After doing this, the Question Instances Report still claims to be able to see one hidden instance, and thus won't give me the option to uninstall. Has anyone else reported behaviour like this, and is there a known fix for it? Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated
@Keenan Nunes-Vaz after deleting the quiz that uses the question, you then need to find that question in the question bank, (you will need to use the 'Also show old questions' option) and delete it again - which probably requires restoring it first.
We are going to do a work-around for Apple's non-support of open audio formats when we can, but we keep having too many other things to do.
Thank you very much for Plugin. It's amazing.
Does it support version 3.11 ?
Regards
This question type is not supported on Moodle mobile app.
Is there any way to make it functional on the mobile app?
Regards
The underlying recording tech used for this question type is the same as the Atto WebRTC tech, so we are waiting for Moodle to support RTC in the Moodle App first.
Although another blocker is that Apple do not currently support the open-source WEBM video or OGG audio formats.
We have just got an MP3-based audio version out ourselves that covers desktop/laptop-based Apple Macs, which if we haven't already shared, we will do as soon as we've ironed it out fully.
However, I understand that Moodle and Apple are currently discussing and iOS may support the open-source standards soon.
Best wishes,
Chris.
However, if you wanted to alter the code locally on your servers only, your would probably be able to find a relevant discussion concerning the RecordRTC tech on Stackoverflow.com.
Hope that helps,
Chris.
No, afraid not. The recording is encoded user-side, so 'Save recording' is essentially 'Upload to the central server'. I am pretty sure that this is standard WebRTC behaviour rather than anything we have actually done.
Under UK and European Data Protection laws, 'opt-out is by default', so we /need/ students to click 'Save' as a form of 'opt in', if that makes sense, for legal compliancy.