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FastTest PlugIn
FastTest PlugIn helps to create almost all types of Moodle questions.
The following video is a quick explanation of what can be done with this plugin. The audio is in Spanish, but you can activate subtitles in English or "automatically translate" to any language that YouTube has.
The languages that are installed by default are: Spanish (original language), English and French (corrected by experts), Italian, Portuguese, German and Simplified Chinese (translated by Google translator).
For each type of question, in a single screen, you have all the fields that must be completed (see images). Most of your time will be spent writing the questions.
MULTIPLE CHOICE | TRUE / FALSE |
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MATCH ANSWER | ESSAY |
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SHORT ANSWER | RANDOM SHORT-ANSWER MATCHING |
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MISSING WORDS | DRAG AND DROP INTO TEXT |
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CLOZE / DESCRIPTION | CODE CLOZE GENERATOR |
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Numeric and calculated question types are not generated directly, but can be simulated using Cloze and Excel formulas that use variables. On the YouTube channel there are tutorial videos that explain how to do it. You can create up to 100 identical questions, with different data, and in one go.
Once you've written them into the plugin, the XML file is generated with the push of a button. To create the question bank in Moodle, it only remains to import the XML file, in the corresponding virtual course.
You can use this plugin even if you don't know how to create some kind of question in Moodle. Although it is advisable to know how to do it in Moodle, the important thing is to know how you want to write the question.
FastTest PlugIn also helps create questions with images and formulas. Explain how you can work with them, easily and without losing the links to the images. Another plugin has been created that serves to have a database of both formulas and images. ForImage-Database.zip
The questions can be exported to text documents, in case the user wishes to be able to use them in written exercises.
To use FastTest PlugIn it is necessary to have an Excel program license (higher than version 2007) and to work on the Excel desktop. With the online version of Excel it doesn't work. When opening the plugin it is necessary to give permission to use the macros.
It is not necessary to know how to use Excel. You will only have to write the questions in the corresponding cells. If you are an advanced Excel user, you will get more performance from the add-in.
It is proven to work well on Windows. With MAC it does not work in all versions, nor in all the add-on options.
Description of the files:
- FastTest - PlugIn.xlsm (executable with macros)
- FastTest - DataBase.xlsx (file necessary to export the questions and save backup copies in an orderly manner)
- FastTest - DataBase - Example.xlsx (file with sample questions, written in Spanish)
- MOODLE.xml (file necessary for MAC users to generate the file to import into Moodle).
- FastTest - Game.xls (file to export Multiple Choice 1 Correct Answer questions to a game - Juego de la OCA).
The plugin has been developed in Spanish. But it is also in English and French. Although it is in Italian, German, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese, these four languages have been translated with the Google translator. Also, you can select any language that Google Translate supports and change some sentences with your own words.
Programming language: VBA within the Microsoft Excel application.
External documentation URL: it is the index with the links to the tutorial videos. You can read it in any language that Google Translate supports.
Website URL: is YouTube channel. In this channel are the plugin video tutorials. They are in Spanish, but most have subtitles and automatic translation can be activated.
Acabo de subir una nueva versión, con unas pequeñas correcciones.
Un saludo y feliz entrada de año.
Intento instalar el plugin y me dice esto:
Install plugin from ZIP file
The plugin ZIP package must contain just one directory, named to match the plugin name. The file provided is not a valid plugin ZIP package.
ALguna solucion?
Gracias
Te envío un enlace a un videotutorial que explica cómo hacerlo. Debes trabajar en un disco duro, no se puede trabajar en la nube.
En el siguiente enlace tienes un índice con todos los tutoriales del PlugIn, si te haces una copia de la spreadsheets de Google, puedes ir marcando en las casillas los vídeos que vayas viendo.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13DvMvhVkx12qg-r4tkzOiIfJDa5zrdOtAeIbpwYfeQk/edit#gid=0
Si no lo consigues, me avisas.
Un saludo
Espero que os guste!!
Kindly please help.
I got this message below when I was trying to install this plugin into Moddle 4.3.2.
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Install plugin from ZIP file
The plugin ZIP package must contain just one directory, named to match the plugin name. The file provided is not a valid plugin ZIP package.
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Thank you & Best Regards
To install it, you only need to unzip it and, among all the files that come out when unzipping it, open "FastTest PlugIn.xslm."
Since it is a macro-enabled file, before opening it, you must right-click (on the file), go to properties, in the "attributes" section, click on unblock. In the following video, you can see how it's done:
I hope these instructions are helpful for you. If you need anything else, feel free to ask. I'm working on creating videos on how to use the application in English, but in the meantime, you can enable the subtitles.
Best Regards
Thank you for explaining. Sorry to trouble you. I will try it.
Happy New Year 2024.
Best Regards
They are not inconveniences, if it doesn't work for you, let me know.
Anything else I can help you with, don't hesitate to let me know.
Happy New Year 2024 to you too.
Best Regards.