Quiz Usability portal/Attempted quiz enabling

Definition

Interactions

• User presses "Delete all attempts"
  • Confirmation dialog: Are you sure you want to delete all attempts from the quiz QUIZNAME? This cannot be undone!
  • Choices:
    • OK
      • Moodle deletes all attempts from quiz, return user to the same page with feedback: "All attempts deleted. _Close the quiz_ ((link to quiz settings)) to prevent students from making new attempts."
    • Cancel
      • Close dialog box
• User presses "Make a copy of this quiz without the attempts"
  • Duplicate the current quiz into one without attempts that can be freely edited, with name "Copy of QUIZNAME". Return the user to the course front page where the new quiz is now visible.

Texts

This quiz has been attempted. There are 4 attempts. If you want to edit this quiz, you can:

Delete all attempts or Make a copy of this quiz without the attempts

Images

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Reasoning behind this improvement

The fact that an attempted quiz cannot be edited

There is still the exception that although you cannot change the questions in the quiz itself, you can add questions in the categories of the random questions in the quiz, effectively (potentially) changing the quiz after all.

"You cannot add or remove questions because there are attempts" this is a real issue with multiple faces. This came up in the usability tests, too: teachers are used to try everything in student role to preview. However, this way of previewing normally locks the quiz up, and the undo - deleting all attempts - is everything but obvious. So this is quite a usability disaster. This is not really much of a change in the UI but something that could be automated or the user, as follows. I think this would be of tremendous benefit, as also various messages in the quiz forum show this is a real issue - do you think we could get something like the following done?

1. Always warn the user if the are about to do something that affects the set of choices they can make later (User control and freedom), and as the undo here is not obvious, tell the user about it 2. Make the user aware of the choices they have in the quiz edit screens, where their actions' consequences are the most obvious: "The quiz has been <a href="attempts listing">attempted</a>, so you cannot edit it. You can still edit the questions in categories, so if you have random questions you can change the contents of those. If you need to modify the quiz, you can: - <a href="do it, but confirm">Delete all the attempts of this quiz</a> - <a href="do it, but confirm">Export the attempts</a> from the quiz to a static (HTML? XML? separate db table?) file. This will mean that you will be able to view those attempts, but will not be able to grade them within the quiz. - <a href="do it, but confirm">Make a copy of the quiz</a>, after which you can delete all the attempts from one of the quizzes and still keep grading functional.

http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html

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