Moodle plugins directory: Cloze Editor | Moodle.org
Cloze Editor
The integration (PHP/javascript) is essentially a new button in the HTML editor which brings up an interface that helps create CLOZE questions in the correct syntax. It will also read and edit existing CLOZE items (which you have selected with your cursor).
Here's a demonstrator (which can also be used to create your own CLOZE quizzes):
For installation instructions and more, see the "More documentation on this plugin" link below.
This plugin only works with the TinyMCE (legacy) editor. IT WILL NOT WORK WITH MOODLE 4.2 and newer Moodle branches that use a new TinyMCE 6 editor and no longer have the legacy TinyMCE editor available..
Daniel Thies made a very nice CLOZE editor plugin for Atto.
A new plugin for the new TinyMCE 6 editor (in Moodle 4.1, 4.2 and newer branches) is available in the Moodle plugins database.
Useful links
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I'll look into it later today - the missing release # isn't really a problem (I'll just add it to version.php). About the lang string messages you receive for the Moodle 2.0-2.3 packages - I don't know enough about the "intelligence" of the plugin validation (and its connections to AMOS), but I suspect that it expects lang strings to be in a different format/directory than they are.
Does the database (a) *correctly* validate TinyMCE plugins for Moodle 2.0 through 2.3 (considering that they necessarily involved patching the core file lib.php), or (b) does it (falsely) expect them to conform t the standard plugin format of Moodle 2.4+? In case (b), I could probably put in some "dummy" lang files just to "appease" the plugin database validation - but I wonder whether this would really help anybody. In case (a), I'd need to check whether the lang strings are maybe in the wrong place altogether.
Best,
Andreas
yes, after talking to Aparup last month, I "moved" (rather, copied) the plugin to this new location at https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=tinymce_clozeeditor. It makes installation more straigtforward. In the "old" location's description I wrote that the plugin has moved and disabled all the downloads. It can be deleted, but so far I haven't found the right button
I am trying to install ClozeEditor. I have moodle 1.9 and for this I followed the instructions, they have had no effect within moodle. So ask for help because it does not know what's happening, the exact version is 1.9.16.
could you check whether you have the file "insert_cloze.php" in the right directory of your moodle install: "/lib/editor/htmlarea/popups"?
Did you also replace the file "/lib/editor/htmlarea/htmlarea.php" with the version from the download package (AFTER backing up the file in your installation)?
Best,
Andreas
We're using your plugin with Moodle 2.7.5 and in general we don't have any problems, it works as intended.
Only after the latest security updates one of our users has complained, that she's unable now to add formatting to the questions (like bold or color or the like), because TinyMCE seems to then add a lot of
-tags now that destroy the Cloze questions. We're not sure if it's either Moodle or TinyMCE that is the culprit here or if maybe your plugin needs another update. If you have any idea what might be different compared to how your plugin worked together with TinyMCE before, we'd appreciate any information we can get in order to solve our user's problem.
Thank you anyway for your work, it's a great plugin.
As for Moodle 2.3.11, according to https://download.moodle.org/releases/legacy/ Support for the 2.3 branch has been discontinued. We highly recommend you upgrade!
If you do upgrade your Moodle server, please notice that the CLOZE plugin only works with the TinyMCE editor and the newer Moodle branches have the Atto editor as default. Please see the documentation at https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Cloze_editor_module
If you can not upgrade, maybe you can use the free online CLOZE editor available at http://projects.ael.uni-tuebingen.de/quiz/htmlarea/index.php .
As the 2.3 Moodle branch is very old, I do not currently have one such server available for testing, and it might take me a while to install one and look into your issue.
since Atto is going to be Moodle's standard editor from now on, will the next installments of the cloze editor work with Atto too? With TinyMCE no longer being the main editor, there's no guarantee new Moodle versions will continue to have it included, so cloze might have to make the switch to Atto anyway?