Formulas question type
Question types ::: qtype_formulas
Maintained by
Dominique Bauer
This is a question type plugin for Moodle with random values and multiple answer fields.
Latest release:
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This is a question type plugin for Moodle with random values and multiple answer fields.
The answer fields can be placed anywhere in the question so that we can create questions involving various answer structures such as coordinate, polynomial and matrix.
Other features such as unit checking and multiple subquestions are also available.
These functionalities can simplify the creation of questions in many fields related to mathematics, numbers and units, such as physics and engineering.
Contributors
Dominique Bauer (Lead maintainer)
Jean-Michel Védrine: Former maintainer
hon wai lau: Original creator
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Many thanks to Dominique Bauer for the offer to adopt this plugin - https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=404092
Thank you for trusting me and entrusting me with the maintenance of the Formulas plugin.
Jean-Michel has done remarkable work for many years as the maintainer not only of the Formulas plugin but also of many others. I and many other moodlers owe him a lot. Now that he's taken a well-deserved retreat, I wish him health, happiness and good times in his beautiful rooftop terrace in Montpellier, in the south of France.
The maintenance of this wonderful plugin, brilliantly written ten years ago by Hon Wai Lau, is truly an honor for me, and a task that I will strive to carry out as best as possible.
It takes years of my work to finish the core part of the plugin, and many more years of work from Jean-Michel to port and maintain it in the new version of Moodle. Let me take this time to thank him for his great work again.
I requested the installtion of stack plugin previously , but turns out It isn't supported on Windows .
The random variables we used were:
firstthing={16,24,28,32,48,56,64};
secondthing={8,10,20,40}
The global variables we used were:
answer=(4*firstthing)/secondthing*7
1) It would be great to have a function to return the number of significant figures of a number.
2) To me, it would be helpful to fix an absolute number of points to be deducted in case of wrong units instead of a relative amount.
Thanks for considering..!
first of all: This qType is amazing! I came across this qtype just recently and I am currently migrating all of my static questions to the formula type.
However, I just experienced an issue while trying to regarde a quiz. After the quiz was taken by the students I realized that I was to strict in terms of rounding tolerance. So I modified the "relative error" setting in the question and performed a regrading. However, the regarding shows no effect on the automatic grading nor the display of the "correct answer" (also adjusted). Do I have to reset or change any other setting to impact the marking in the regrading process?
Cheers
Daniel
It seems that when the answer is a number answer, any text (non numeric for exemple) should show an alert. It's usefull for the comma decimal alert for french people...
But it seems that it doesn't work anymore.
- Tested on your site (and mine) : https://moodleformulas.org/course/view.php?id=22§ion=4
- Tested on Firefox and Chrome
When in the answer box you write something else than number, no alert shown and aswer considered as wrong.
Did I misunderstood ?
Éric