Magtest module
The Magtest module (also standing for Magazine test module, as inspired by the Leisure press personality test customs) provides a multitrack scoring test allowing participant classification in categories. It is simple to setup and use.
The Magtest module defines categories of answers, then defines questions and answers for each of the available categories.
The only activity of students is to perform the test chossing one of the proposed answers, and read result profile feedback (highlighted) at the end.
The module settings allow the test to be played once or accept multiple attemprs (by capability). Also answers can be weighted, so adding more or less credits to an output category.
Making groups in course with magtest
Enabling the group making feature, the result of the magtest can be converted into group definition in course. Setup allows defining the group name and group description that will be generated from the magtest participants classification.
Note that to avoid misuse of this feature, the coruse MUST have no groups defined to allow groups generation.
Setup
The setup properties are as defined:
Instance name
Defines the visible name of the instance in the course
Intro
ALlows giving a summary of the activity
Start and end time
Used to open or close the actiity in a time range.
Weighted
When enabled, distinct weights can be attributed to each answer for its attached category. When disabled, the default constant weight is 1.
Use the "make group" utility
Enables the group making feature
Questions per page
Sets up how many questions are printed on the same page.
Allow replay
Global allow replay switch. A user can replay if allow eplay is enabled AND he has capability to play again.
Result
Sets up a global feedback that will comment the result grid.
Screens
- Test screen
- Preview (teacher)
- Categories (teacher)
- Questions (teacher)
- Results (teacher)
- Stats (teacher)
Capabilities
Capabilities for students
- mod/magtest/multipleattempts : People having this capability enabled can replay the test
- mod/magtest/doit : People having this capability can play the test
Capabilities for teachers and power users
- mod/magtest/manage : People having this capability can edit, add, delete categories and questions
- mod/magtest/viewotherresults : People having this capability can access to results of all participants
- mod/magtest/addinstance : People having this capability can add an instance in the course (standard capability)
Miscellaneous
- mod/magtest/viewgeneralstat : People having this capability can access to global stats
Reference, information, development and support
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