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Record audio/video question type
This free 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.
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Our institution literally upgraded to M4.3 this morning, so our attention will now turn to upgrading all our plugins to M4.4 over the next couple of months (the traditional 'late summer push').
Best wishes,
Chris.
Thanks for your time!
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We're still in the "Late summer push". Should be released soon.
Further to my message in the summer about contributing towards this Plugin ("Show question content after recording starts"), I have a team of motivated engineering students who are looking to take it on (and even contribute to upgrading to M4.4). Any chance you could get in touch to help us understand your specifications for mods to this plugin?
Thanks for your help!
Hope you all have a nice break!
Sadly we haven't had the resource to publish an update to the GitHub/plugin database yet, but we have very recently released a M4.4 version internally that we are testing. We'll try to share this as soon as possible in the new year.
As to your kind offer - thanks!
Happy New Year, folks!
Chris.
Is there any chance the 'grader information' section could get added to this plugin at some stage?
Thanks for all the great work, Andrew
Thanks for your response - it would indeed be useful to be able to chat about this more directly.
In the meantime, any chance of getting an early release beta version of the M4.4 plugin? The engineers on my side are moving forward with the "Show question content after recording starts" function, and would be interested to see what modifications you are making!
Thanks for your time, good luck with the continuing late summer push!
Happy new year to one and all!
Ben
I've resent the contact request so we can message each other on Moodle.org, and that way we can exchange email addresses to more directly discuss this.
I will chat with our new lead developer this morning about how up-to-date the public GitHub is. We're currently on M4.4.
Yes, this is a free plugin. It uses modern browser standards to record and playback audio/video/screens.
I think that the other similar but commercial "record AV" qtypes include some sort of AI analysis/feedback, which this doesn't. But that's because the OU business hasn't said that's as a necessary feature.