Moodle Plugins directory: Deferred feedback with explanation: Comments

Friday, 7 November 2025, 8:41 PM - Sebastian H.

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:41:13 GMT

by Sebastian H..

Hi Tim,

is this also working with 4.5? We are using it now with 4.1.x with no problems.

Best regards
Sebastian

Friday, 19 April 2024, 10:14 PM - Tim Hunt

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:14:41 GMT

by Tim Hunt.

Hi Antonia

1. This is a fundametal issue with behaviours in Moodle. The way it works at the moment, you can only choose the behaviour for automatically graded questions. This needs to be fixed, and is on my todo list, but it is not obvious how to deal with it, so it has not happened yet. Anwyay, the OU wants this too.

2. I think the issue with removing question behaviours is: Moodle will only let you remove the plugin if there are no question-attempts that use that behaviour. That is becuase, things would break if you remove a plugin that is required to review a particular quiz attempt. So, if you delete all the quiz attempts, then you can uninstall the plugin. Otherwise you can't. What you can do, on Manage question behaviours, is disable the plugin, which means that it can no longer be selected when editing quiz settings.

Friday, 19 April 2024, 10:06 PM - Antonia Bonaccorso

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:06:35 GMT

by Antonia Bonaccorso.

Hi Tim,
We evaluated this plugin for the use of commenting on questions in exams regarding quality of the question. A student might note down why he/she is confused by the question and the teacher might use this information to improve his style of asking question in future exams.
It is very helpful that I can change the text and lable of the explanation via language file in these regards!
We missed the possibility of commenting on open ended questions (like the essay question) and wondered, if there is a chance you would implement this possibility?
We also wanted to see how easy it is to uninstall the plugin in case we decide to no longer use it in the future. It turned out that this is by no means easy. Also checking github we did not find any instructions on uninstalling the question behaviour. Could you give us some advice on this?

Best regards,
Antonia

Saturday, 26 June 2021, 3:34 AM - Emil Mandyczewsky

Fri, 25 Jun 2021 19:34:39 GMT

by Emil Mandyczewsky.

Is anyone seeing this plugin having problems in Version 3.11+?

Monday, 6 August 2018, 5:37 PM - Tim Hunt

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:37:41 GMT

by Tim Hunt.

It would be possible (using similar code to what qtype_essay uses). However, it would require someone to develop the feature. I am afraid that at the moment I have neither the time nor inclination to do that. However, if someone else is able to do the work, I would be delighted to receive a pull request to merge.

Saturday, 4 August 2018, 8:38 PM - Matthias Giger

Sat, 04 Aug 2018 12:38:10 GMT

by Matthias Giger.

Would it be possible to allow uploading files in the plugin?

I'm asking because if this was possible, students could use the sketch ability in the editor (drawings) to explain their own thinking in mathematical questions.

At the moment I'm using an additional free text question to achieve this goal, but implementing it directly into your plugin would be much more elegant.

Tuesday, 22 May 2018, 9:49 PM - Tim Hunt

Tue, 22 May 2018 13:49:43 GMT

by Tim Hunt.

I think the explanations added will show up in the Responses report in the quiz. https://docs.moodle.org/35/en/Quiz_responses_report

Tuesday, 22 May 2018, 8:55 PM - Peter Eliyahu Kornfeld

Tue, 22 May 2018 12:55:30 GMT

by Peter Eliyahu Kornfeld.

Hello Tim,
Thank you for this plugin!
A question: there is any page/report where the teacher can see the additional feedback in a concentrated form?

Saturday, 17 March 2018, 12:19 AM - Tim Hunt

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:19:54 GMT

by Tim Hunt.

Just pushed a new version that works with Moodle 3.2-3.4.

Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 1:32 AM - Tim Hunt

Tue, 16 May 2017 17:32:45 GMT

by Tim Hunt.

I have just tested, and this seems to work with Moodle 3.2 and 3.3

Sunday, 14 May 2017, 10:54 AM - H Singh

Sun, 14 May 2017 02:54:16 GMT

by H Singh.

Thanks, Tim! When you created this plugin in response to my request, it really helped us. We have recently upgraded our Moodle installation to version 3.2. It does not appear that this question behavior has been ported to the latest versions yet. Can you please do that?

Friday, 17 February 2017, 4:54 AM - Tim Hunt

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:54:48 GMT

by Tim Hunt.

The only options I can think of are the ones you give. I think this will meet your need. Do you have a test Moodle site where you can try it, before you install it into your real site?

Friday, 17 February 2017, 4:39 AM - Avrila Klaus

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:39:35 GMT

by Avrila Klaus.

I'm interested in setting up quizzes in true-false-justify format (where students are expected to first classify a statement as true or false, then justify their answer). This quiz behavior combined with true/false questions is the first thing I've stumbled across that looks like it would do that conveniently -- the other options I've come up with are Cloze (which I find clunky) or alternating T/F and essay questions (which you couldn't then randomize the order of).

Am I right that this will get the job done? Is there another way that would be easier? If the answers are yes and no respectively I'll push the button ASAP. Thanks!

Thursday, 21 April 2016, 4:12 PM - Tim Hunt

Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:12:06 GMT

by Tim Hunt.

Sorry, no.

Thursday, 21 April 2016, 4:10 PM - jack captch

Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:10:54 GMT

by jack captch.

Hi Tim,

When I choose Deferred feedback with explanation option in quiz settings it adds the "Give your reasons" option to all the questions in quiz, is there any option to deactivate it for some of the questions?

Thanks in advance