Hi Nicolay,

Thank you for the video. The shown behavior is normal. Once the ongoing background tasks are done, questions should appear in a new dedicated category in the question bank of your course.

What surprises me is that you still have ongoing tasks from 2 days ago. Check in the ad-hoc tasks / ongoing tasks / task log in the site administration for errors. Did you set an OpenAI API key ?

Best,

Christian

Hi, Christian
Yes, indeed. There was an error in the key. Thanks for your help.

I would like to clarify:
the plugin uses only the resource file?
file format - only doc (docx)?
pdf and txt are not supported?
by default 10 questions are created (type multiple choice)?

Best regards,
Nicolay

Hi Nicolay,

Supported file formats of OpenAI's Assistant API can be found here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools/file-search#supported-files

The prompt is for the moment hard-coded and produces 10 questions by default. In upcoming versions of the plugin, the prompt will become adaptable.

Best,

Christian

Can this plugin support calling other big language models?

Hi Siming,

For the moment, it is limited to OpenAI's API, using GPT-4o.

Best,

Christian

Trying this in a clean Moodle 5 install and fear I may be jumping the gun.

Getting the error: Adhoc task failed: qbank_genai\task\generation_task,Error writing to database

Any ideas?

Dear Julian,

Thank you for raising this point! Indeed, an adaptation was needed regarding the feature of shared question banks introduced in Moodle 5.0. Let me know if this works for you.

Best,

Christian

Hi Christian,
The "qbank_genai“ Plugin is not functioning as expected in Moodle 4.5.2.

Steps to Reproduce:
01. Log in to Moodle v4.5.2.
02. Select any existing course.
03. Enable "Edit Mode."
04. Click "Add an activity or resource."
05. Choose the "File" option, update the necessary details, and upload a file (e.g., text.pdf).
06. Click "Save and display."
07. Disable "Edit Mode."
08. Within the course, select the "More” Dropdown and choose "Generate Questions."
09. Select the uploaded file and click "Generate Questions." button


Issue:
1. The status shows "The following generation tasks are ongoing" indefinitely and never completes.
2. Upon checking, the status indicates "error" with 9 tasks failing.
3. Only option is delete the record via database system.
DELETE FROM mdl_task_adhoc WHERE id=80;

Note: Verified the OpenAI API key and have sufficient fund so no issues on the API keys.

Logs:
Please find the detailed logs attached for your review and guidance.

Details
Fail delay: 1 day - Remove temporary write access from controlled links (repository_onedrive\remove_temp_access_task)
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 11
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 12
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 13
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 17
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 18
Fail delay: 1 day - mod_forum\task\send_user_notifications ID = 19

Thanks

does this only fetches the content from pdf but i had created the using text and media plugin from where it is unable to find the conntent

Yes, the plugin currently only considers Files, no other activity or resource types.

Hello, I am using Moodle 4.5. I had installed this plugin and then tried to add the OpenAI API key. The given keys are generally very long. After I click save changes button, I get "Error writing to database". The debug info revealed "Data too long for column 'openaiapikey' at row 1". How to fix this?

Dear Bhanuka,

Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware OpenAI now issues API keys of around 165 characters.

I just released an update, please try it out.

Best,

Christian

Dear Christian,

Appreciate your quick response to fix the issue.

The plugin is working well. Big thanks for your effort.

Looking forward for the new features on this plugin.

Best Regards,
Bhanuka

Hi
I uploaded an English PDF file for the plugin to generate questions from, but after the process was completed, I discovered that the generated questions were in French instead of English.

Dear Mosaab,

Sorry to hear! The pleasures of generative AI, the prompt explicitly tells the model "Questions should be in the same language as the file content." Maybe you could retry a few times to see whether it follows this instruction at one point. If the document contains a mix of languages, this might also affect the LLM's interpretation.

Best,

Christian