Question Creation module

Concept of Question creation activity Module

The Question Creation Activity is a graded activity where students must create questions in the Moodle question bank. A teacher grades the questions.

The students get a grade for the questions they create.

You can specify a percentage of the grade to be automatically assigned depending on how many of the required questions the student creates and the rest of the grade awarded to the student to be dependent on the grade a teacher assigns for the questions created.

History

This module was originally created by Jamie Pratt with funding from Future University Hakodate http://www.fun.ac.jp/e/

The module was originally conceived and partially designed by Peter Ruthven-Stuart from Future University - Hakodate.

It has been migrated to Moodle 2.x-versions by gtn gmbh (global training network ltd. - http://gtn-solutions.com, http://www.exabis.at It was upgraded to Moodle 2.7 and enhanced by Jean-Michel Vedrine (email vedrine@vedrine.net).

WARNING: This version will only work with Moodle 2.7 and 2.8. It will not work with previous versions of Moodle

Installation

Installation is as for any other Moodle activity modules. You need to unzip the plugin's zip archive in {yourmoodleroot}/mod/ then click on Site Administration->Notifications to install the module. For instructions for installing downloading and installing a Moodle module see the documentation.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you have set up cron properly on your server. You can check it is set up properly by visiting Site Administration. A message will appear if cron is not working. This module use scheduled tasks. You can manage the scheduled tasks used by this module going to Site Administration -> Server -> Scheduled tasks

Steps to follow to set-up module

Below are some steps with snapshots that teacher can follow in order to create a new Question creation activity.

Step 1

First step for any teacher is to create an instance of module.

Step 2

After the instance for the question creation module has been created, teacher is redirected to setting form for that instance. The setting form contains some general options like name, introduction and behaviour. It also contains settings specific to that activity Availability, You can choose to have an open and/or close date and time for the activity Grading, you an choose the activity's grade, the ratio between automatic/manual grading - automatic grading is calculated from the number of question created by the student vs the number of questions students must create (entered in the "Total question graded" field) this part of the grade is just for making questions, it doesn't depend on the question quality at all - manual grading is calculated from the grades awarded to questions created by the student by teachers Graded question types determine the types that will be available to students (by default only multichoice questions are allowed) If you choose "Allow all questions", students will be able to create questions from all installed question types. Random questions and Random short-answer matching questions are never allowed because they are not "real" questions but just use other questions so it would not be fair to consider them as created questions. Total question graded is the number of questions (form any allowed question types) that students must create