Moodle plugins directory: Live Report | Moodle.org
Live Report
Bill JunkinThis quiz report module allows teachers to see, in real time, the responses from students as they are completing questions in a quiz. As students change their answers or submit more answers, the spreadsheet is refreshed. If desired, the grades that each response would be given can be shown as the background color in the cells of the spreadsheet, but this action is unrelated to the grading of the quiz.
The top row in this spreadsheet/table has the names of the questions in the quiz. The teacher can click on any of these question names to obtain an overview of that question.
For multichoice, truefalse, and calculatedmulti question types, a histogram is displayed.
For all other question types, the response from each student is given in one line on the page. The teacher can choose to show or hide the student's name associated with each response.
To install this module, place the liveviewgrid directory as a sub-directory in the <your moodle site>/mod/quiz/report/ directory, creating the <your moodle site>/mod/quiz/report/liveviewgrid/ directory.
After installing this quiz report module, teachers can click on the "Live Report" option in the "Report" drop-down menu to access this spreadsheet.
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I have found that if there are too many features/options for a program, some teachers are hesitant to use the program. with a few hours of programming I could add two more buttons, a hide/show first name button and the hide/show last name. However, unless there is a big demand for this, I do not plan to add this feature at this time. (There are important pedagogical reasons to allow both show and hide of names.) If you have a school or schools that need this feature, if you let me know I may be able to produce a version of the program that will do this and let those schools use it without posting that version on the Moodle site.
be added (like Socrative does) so the students could see their actual
scoring in real time (on one hundred scale).
Anyway thanks for your dedication
Thanks for letting me know that you are having a problem. We have Live Report running successfully with Moodle 3.7 and 3.8 as well as with earlier versions. So, I am anxious to find out what is the problem with Live Report on your site and get the problem fixed quickly. So that we can communicate directly about the problem, it may be useful for you to communicate directly with me until we get this fixed and then we can explain the problem and how it was solved here. My email address is junkinwf@eckerd.edu
I am glad that this module is useful and I regret that you are having a problem. Again, I hope you will give me some more information so that I can fix the problem.
I'm glad you like this quiz report module.
I think I can do what you request. There are two reasons that the program does not keep all the formatting that the students have in their answers.
1) If the students have several line breaks and/or use large fonts in the answers they submit in essay questions, this can make the spreadsheet table (that displays the students' responses) very long and the teacher will have to do a lot of scrolling to see the responses. This is especially true if the teacher is looking at the responses to all questions rather than looking at the response to just one question.
2) A clever student can include javascript and/or html code into their answers which might mess up the entire display in the teacher's page. Because I don't want this to happen, I have removed most html tags and javascript from the student responses. to be selective about this removal might be tricky and might slow down the program.
However, when Moodle displays the students' responses in the standard quiz reports that are part of the Moodle code program, the Moodle code has to take care of the problems that I mentioned in #1 and #2 above. Question: Are you satisfied with the display that Moodle gives for student responses in the other quiz report modules? If so, I may be able to find out how Moodle handles problems #1 and #2 and include their solution in my module.
Thanks for your suggestions.
(also, I am sharing this information with Al and Dinis via my email, junkinwf@eckerd.edu. You, Jane, are welcome to contact me at this email address also.)
I have finished (I hope) a new version of LIve Report.
For you, Dinis, the pictures that are in the text of any question should now show up properly.
For you, Jane, I think that I have improved the way that text is displayed when students respond with a text response (for example, responding to an essay question).
For you, Al, I think that the colors for RAG are now correct.
For everyone:
A. The table displaying student responses is now displayed in an iframe. When there is a new response from a student, the iframe should refresh automatically but the parent page should not refresh. Al, hopefully this will also refresh properly on the WebBuster site.
B. If a student has clicked on anything in the Moodle site in the last 5 minutes, the background for the student's name should have a green striped background to let the teacher know that the student is active. (As desired, this can be changed to a different time in a future version.)
The LiveReport program has the option to allow teachers to display a page that is appropriate for printing. It also has the option to allow teachers to display detailed information about each question. It is likely that not all of the new features will show up on these two pages.
The new version is available in the github site (https://github.com/wjunkin/moodle-quiz_liveviewgrid) and the zipped version is also available from my Google Drive site at the following link.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N5LDTDq2uRV657mS-2Bx9zSogN9JmIxt/view?usp=sharing
As soon as this version has been checked out by you and we have not found any bugs, I am going to post it on the Moodle site.
So, please report any problems that you find or any suggestions for improvements.
William (Bill) Junkin
I love the look of this plugin - I think it's exactly what I've been looking for!
Will this run on Moodle 3.9?
You have listed it for Versions 3.2-3.8 but then in the Stats section I see that there are 41 sites running 3.9 using Live Report. Just looking for a little clarification before I ask our admins if they can install this for the college where I work.
Is there an update planned from your plugin for Moodle 4.1?
Franco (who is working on geogebra question types) to make the Live Report module run faster, look better, handle pictures, etc. Please contact me if you have any questions.