Cloze editor for Atto

This a Moodle 3.1 additional plugin, written by Daniel Thies, for making Embedded Answers (Cloze) question type inside the standard Moodle Atto Text editor.

Background

• The Embedded Answers (Cloze) question type is an extremely powerful question type, but its complicated syntax has discouraged many teachers from using it.
• A user-friendly cloze editor was made for the TinyMCE editor back in ... by ...
• But Moodle HQ decided to change the default text editor, from TinyMCE to Atto in ...
• There was a very energetic Moodle forum thread about improvements on the cloze question type
• Daniel Thies bravely volunteered to write a cloze editor for Atto.
• In a very short time, a working version was available in Github.
• German Valero started doing some tests and suggestions.
• Daniel Thies greatly enhanced the plugin and improved the user-friendlines.
• This Moodle Docs page was started to help new users of this plugin.

Current status

You can look at the progress of this plugin in https://github.com/dthies/moodle-atto_cloze

Current issues at https://github.com/dthies/moodle-atto_cloze/issues

Installation

Automatic installation from the Moodle plugins database

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Manually installing from Github

• Go to https://github.com/dthies/moodle-atto_cloze and download the ZIP file
• Add the contents of this downloaded zip file in '... -> server-> moodle -> lib -> editor -> atto -> plugins ' directory and visit notifications to update database."
• You must re-name the 'moodle-atto-cloze-master' folder into 'cloze'
• After visiting notifications and updating the Moodle database, you must add the cloze button to the Atto toolbar as described in https://docs.moodle.org/37/en/Text_editor#Adding_extra_buttons adding the line cloze = cloze .

• You may not notice any change because by default, the Atto toolbar has very few buttons showing:

• Then, click on the very first button inside the Atto toolbar to expand the Atto toolbar:

• Now, when you expand the (normally small) Atto toolbar, you will see the familiar cloze button. Click on this button to open the cloze editor popup window.

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Usage

• When you want to create a cloze question type, choose 'cloze' in the Activity chooser

• When you click on the cloze button inside the Atto toolbar, a popup window will let you choose any of the available question types:

• Click on any question type you want to use:

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See also

• The cloze editor module for TinyMCE.