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Realtime Quiz
Activities ::: mod_realtimequiz
Maintained by 
Davo Smith
Face-to-face quiz with all students answering the questions at the same time.
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Current versions available: 3
A multiple-choice quiz designed for use in a face-to-face lesson.
Each student receives each question at the same time with a time limit to answer it (default 30 seconds). In between each question the correct answer is displayed, along with the number of students giving each answer (and some statistics about the percentage class / individual correct answers). This allows each question to be discussed before moving on.
Teachers can review the answers, once the quiz is finished, to identify any areas that need to be covered again.
Recent improvements (2010) include:
- Ability to add a picture to each question
- More attractive question display
- Easier question editing
- Reduced network traffic & improved stability (particularly on wireless networks)
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I am very unlikely to be adding any new features to my Realtime quiz plugin in my spare time. However, if there was funding available, then you could get in touch for a quote from my employers as to how much it would cost to develop such a feature (I'm also open to accepting a well-written patch to my code, if another developer were to write it).
We are using moodle 3.9.7;
going back to campus we decided to go back to this activity - *Realtime Quiz *- so useful in so many ways that Students are so eager to use...
In the same session and room we have Students that answer all questions (of 4, for ex.) and others that answer the 1st one and "jump" to the last one without having the chance to see or answer the middle ones...
Any news for a possible upgrade/improvement?
Thx a LOT in advance!
Could there be more than one teacher attempting to use the same quiz at the same time? (I'm not sure that is even possible, but if it was, the system could get confused). Other than that, the quiz, by its nature, does generate a lot of network traffic, as each browser needs to poll the server to ask if the next question is ready - that could be overloading your network?
As a basic starting point, any code you send would need to meet all Moodle coding guidelines and the changes would need to be covered by automated Behat steps.
If you open up a pull request via github (see the 'Source control URL' link above), then I'll be able to review your code.
At a guess, the questions are set up to allow full formatting, but the answers are only configured to use plain text. I will see if I can have a look at that at some point, but I can't make any promises (it may be as simple as a couple of lines of code, but that may turn out to break other stuff ...)
I love the plugin, and it would be even greater if you were able to add more time during the questions if needed.
And choice as teacher to make the students fully anonomous.
Adding extra time could be tricky, as the browsers would have no way to know that they should check for the updated time (to reduce network bandwidth, they only contact the server when a user enters an answer or when it believes the time limit has been reached - by which point, the quiz display in the browser has, I think, already stopped accepting input).
It would be difficult to make the quiz fully anonymous, in that it needs to keep track of who has replied, so that they can't send multiple responses (e.g. by refreshing the browser). I guess we could add a setting for the teacher to disable the reporting page, but they could just as easily turn the report back on again afterwards (and someone with access to the database could always find out who gave each answer anyway).
I'm unlikely to look at either issue in my free time, but if these are features you're keen to see in place, then I'm happy to accept well-written patches (with automated tests) or to pass you on to one of my colleagues to discuss a spec/quote for the work.
a cordial greeting
Adding questions from the question bank is not a feature this plugin has ever supported (the plugin is older than the question bank feature in Moodle). There is another plugin, based on mine, that did support that feature (mod_activequiz) but that hasn't been updated in many years now.
The only way to add questions is via the interface within the quiz itself.