StudentQuiz module

This documentation is meant for everyone interested in the usage, management, and development of the StudentQuiz Moodle Plugin.

Introduction

StudentQuiz is a plugin listed in the official Moodle Plugin Directory. While Moodle’s Quiz module allows teachers to define quizzes to be answered by students, StudentQuiz moves one step further allowing students to construct questions themselves and to share these questions with their peers.

StudentQuiz uses a gamified approach to motivate contribution and participation by awarding points to students for creating and answering questions.

StudentQuiz also implements a crowd sourced approach for quality management by letting students rate and comment questions.

Furthermore, teachers can moderate the question pool by approving or disapproving questions. Teachers can also delete or hide unsuitable or wrong question.

Larger cohors can easily create massive question pools. That's why StudentQuiz provides comprehensive filters to let students focus on the questions they want to work with.

Student Manual

Your teacher has created one or more StudentQuiz activities in the moodle course you are enrolled in. This manual explains the way you can use StudentQuiz activities to practice for exams or to revise course materials, how to contribute to the question pool and the formulas used to calculate your contribution, learning progress, and ranking within your peer group.

Practice

Open Studentquiz

To open a StudentQuiz go to your course. StudentQuiz activities are always represented with a StudentQuiz icon.

Click on the desired StudentQuiz activity to open it. Now you are in the main view of this StudentQuiz.

If nobody has contributed any question yet, you only see a button to create a new question.

See contribute for more information about contributing a question.

As soon as questions are contributed, the question bank displays all of them at the bottom half of the view.

Actions

As a student, you have several actions that can be performed on this screen.

• Create a new question with “Create new question” button
• Filter questions with the filter form
• De-/select questions by check-marking them
• Practice all selected questions with the “Start Quiz” button
• Sort questions by the different column headers
• Preview, edit or delete your own questions

Table information

The table of this view has various columns with different information:

• Checkbox, represents the check column. You can de-/select questions to practice them
• T, stands for Type and displays an image of the question type used for the given question
• S, stands for State and displays whether a teacher has approved or disapproved the question (✗ = not approved, ✓ = approved). Other states are ⧠ = new and ⭯ = changed.
• Question, shows the question name
• Actions, doesn’t have a title, but it will show different icons depending the available actions (preview, edit, delete, hide)
• Created by, shows the question creator and the creation date. This field may be anonymized and not show the creator’s name
• Tags, shows tags assigned to a question
• My Attempts, shows the number of times this question has been answered and if the last attempt was correct or incorrect
• Difficulty, shows the difficulty of the particular questions, based on answers (from 0 = very simple to 1 = very difficult) * The amount of bolts is the difficulty for the logged in learner (from 0 = very simple to 5 = very difficult) * The blue bar in the background is the difficulty for the respective peer group (from 0% = very simple to 100% = very difficult)
• Rating, shows ratings of a questions. * The amount of stars is the rating given by the logged in learner (from 0 = very poor to 5 = very good) * The blue bar in the background is the rating of the respective peer group (from 0% = very poor to 100% = very good)
• Comments, shows the number of comments that have been made on that question

Filter questions

On the upper half a filter section provides various filters to select sets of questions. This is especially recommended when a lot of questions have been added to this StudentQuiz. There are many more filtering options behind the "Show more..." link

Use filters to select the questions you want to practice.

Start a quiz

As soon as you are happy with your question selection hit the “Start Quiz” button. StudentQuiz will start a Quiz with the selected questions for you. You can now answer questions and navigate through the set of questions.

While answering questions you might be required to rate and comment questions. See rating a question to learn more about rating .See commenting a question to learn more about commenting.

Contribute

As a student you can contribute in various ways to the question pool of the StudentQuiz Activity in your course.

1. Add a new question
2. Rate a question
3. Comment a question

Adding a question

To create a question, use the “Create new question” button. You can select from a variety of questions types, however, the teacher can restrict the available question types.

Rating a question

If you practice on a question and the question is checked, it shows the answer and any feedback.

The first time you answer a question you will be asked to rate the question for it’s usefulness and suitability on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. Your teacher might have given you some guidance on what is considered to be a good question, but in the end it is you and your fellow students enrolled in the class that define the rating of the questions within StudentQuiz. The author of the question will receive ranking points based on your rating.

The yellow stars display your rating while the blue background displays the averaged number of stars given by your peer group.

The rating requirement can be turned off by the teacher. The author of the question will receive ranking points based on your rating. See reports to learn more about ranking points.

Commenting a question

If you practice on a question and the question is checked, it shows the answer and any feedback.

You can discuss the solution or the question in the comments. The author of the question will receive an email notification about you comment. The teacher has the option to make commenting questions mandatory.

Learning Assistance

The Learning Assistance gives you an overview of your contribution and learning progress.

The upper bar represents your learning progress. In the example below there are 13 questions in this StudentQuiz. Out of this you have answered 3 questions correctly, 2 questions incorrectly, and you have not yet provided an answer for 8 questions. Please note that you can answer a question multiple times, but only your last answer counts.

The lower bar represents your contribution progress. In the example below you have contributed 4 questions to this StudentQuiz. Out of this 2 questions were approved by the teacher, 1 question was disapproved, and 1 question is still lacking an approval/disapproval by the teacher.

Reports

StudentQuiz also provides students with two different reports to compare yourself with your peer group. The reports can be accessed from the navigation:

Statistics

The left column of the statistics report gives you an overview of your contribution and learning progress. For comparison you see the averaged contribution and learning progress of your peer group in the right column.

Ranking

The ranking table is used to motivate students to challenge each other. The ranking shows the calculus of the ranking points. The sum of all your ranking points is used to rank you within your peer group.

Teacher Manual

Your Moodle administrator has installed the StudentQuiz Plugin to your school’s Moodle Website. This guide explains how to configure a StudentQuiz activity to be added into your course, how you can encourage and moderate your students to contribute question to the question pool, what statistics you can draw from your students activties and how you can recycle the question pool of one course to another.

Create a StudentQuiz Activity

Creating a StudentQuiz activity has no difference to other activities. Go to your course and press on the “Turn editing on” button. Choose your topic where you want the new Student-Quiz activity and press “+ Add an activity or resource” on the right side.

Choose StudentQuiz and press “Add”. Give a name to the new activity. You have the following options to configure the StudentQuiz activity.

Configure a StudentQuiz Activity

Ranking Settings

The Ranking Settings are important. You have some options that you can configure

Make students anonymous

This option will prevent students from seeing the names of the question’s author. However, students will still see their own names on questions they created themselves. Teachers will always see the creator’s names.

Publish new questions

This will make newly created questions visible to all learners right away. Turn this option off if you want to approve questions before they become visible to the learners.

Created question factor

Points for each created question

Approved question factor

Points for each approved question

Rating factor

Points for each star received

Latest correct answer factor

Points for each correct answer on the last attempt

Latest wrong answer factor

Points for each wrong or partially wrong answer on the last attempt

Exclude roles in ranking

If you do not want the teacher to show up in the ranking table you can exclude the teacher role. You can do so with all other available user roles.

Question Settings

The Question Settings are also important. You have some options that you can configure

Allowed question types

Here you can specify which types of questions are allowed

Enforce retaing

This option requires a learner to rate a question right after answering the question for the first time.

Enforce commenting

This option requires a learner to comment a question.

Removing a StudentQuiz Activity

Removing a StudentQuiz Activity can be done the same way as removing any other Moodle Activities. Go to your course and click on the “Turn editing on” button. Choose the StudentQuiz Activity you want to remove and press “Edit -> Delete”.

Moderate

Main View

In the main view, students can only preview, edit or delete their own questions. Teachers and teachers on the other hand can preview, edit and delete all questions. Additionally, the approved column has turned into clickable links, which allows teachers to un-/approve questions.

Evaluate

Statistics

In the submenu “Statistics”, teachers can view their own statistics and see the community statistics.

Ranking

On the “Ranking” page teachers can see all students progress, not only Top 10 as the students have. Each student is shown with its total points, how the points are contributed and the personal progress.

Reuse

Question bank

As a teacher, you get access to all question bank functions using the question bank in the StudentQuiz activity.

Its main purpose is to get overview of all questions, for importing or exporting whole sets of questions and possibly to move around questions between categories. This view should not be used to edit questions, as it won’t notify students of the applied changes.

StudentQuiz loads all questions from its question category and its subcategories. Thus you can also move questions into subcategories of the StudentQuiz question category to organise the questions to your liking.

Important

Use the question bank in the StudentQuiz activity, otherwise you won’t be in the context of StudentQuiz and you can’t see its question categories.

Administrator Manual

You are the Moodle administrator maintaining the moodle installation of your institution. This guide explains the relevant procedures of installation and upgrades as well as the process of an uninstalling StudentQuiz.

Install

Download StudentQuiz from the Moodle Plugin Directory and install by going to the ‘Site administration -> Plugins -> Install’ plugins page. You can try StudentQuiz without installing on the StudentQuiz Demo Page.

Upgrade

Manually, the same steps as install.

Moodle also provides you a hint when there are new versions, once you logged in as admin or when you Open ‘Site administration > Notifications’

Note: We highly recommend you to read the release notes on github for more insights about the changes.

Configure

You can setup the points used by the ranking table, but these are just site wide default values. The teacher can always overwrite them during creation of a StudentQuiz or when editing a StudentQuiz.

For more information about the ranking table look at the Teacher Manual about Evaluating and Student Manual about Scores.

Uninstall

Note: Make sure all the questions have been backed up! One way to do this is to export them usind the moodle question bank, as removing or uninstalling the StudentQuiz activity also removes all questions in the same context.

To uninstall the StudentQuiz Activity follow the navigation as follows: “Site administration -> Plugins -> Plugins overview”

Look for StudentQuiz and click “Uninstall”.

If “Uninstall” is not available, it means you’re using the deprecated StudentQuiz Question Behaviour plugin prior to StudentQuiz 3.0. Remove the Question Behaviour plugin by deleting the directory your_moodle_directory/question/behaviour/studentquiz.

Links

• Moodle Plugin Directory Page for StudentQuiz Plugin
• Github Repository of StudentQuiz Plugin
• Continuous Integration
• Live Demo Sandbox of StudentQuiz
• StudenQuiz demo video in YouTube

See also

• Hot Question - a Moodle plugin that can be used to better understand topics that a group collectively want to know more about. You ask participants to submit questions, or responses to a prompt, for example a recorded lecture, a topical issue, readings, revision class etc. Participants can then submit questions related to that topic, which appear in an ordered list (newest questions appear first). Participants then 'rate' other's questions by clicking a Thumbs Up icon - this gives the question / response heat. The more votes, the hotter the question and the higher up the list it will appear.