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* User clicks the link "There are N attempts"
* User clicks the link "There are N attempts"
** Take the user to the Results tab just as before.
** Take the user to the Results tab just as before.
Optimally, there would also be a choice to export or archive the attempts and then delete them.
=== Texts ===
=== Texts ===



Revision as of 13:02, 8 October 2008

Definition

Right below the Quiz title "Editing quiz: QUIZNAME Basic ideas of making quizzes", add an information box stating the user the options s/he has. If some operations related to modifying quiz or its preferences are still allowed, this should be stated clearly here.

Development-Quiz Usability portal Attempted quiz enabling.png

(this may be implemented with print_box_start() and print_box_end() as the current notice about not being capable to edit the quiz in Quiz_UI_redesign is).


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.
  • User clicks the link "There are N attempts"
    • Take the user to the Results tab just as before.

Optimally, there would also be a choice to export or archive the attempts and then delete them.

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

Development-Quiz Usability portal Attempted quiz enabling info.png

The original: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Info_icon_002.svg

Reasoning behind this improvement

Severe usability problem:

  • An attempted quiz cannot be edited
  • After opening the quiz, the quiz can lock down at any unpredictable time if a student tries the quiz and there is no undo. The teacher may not know about this beforehand and the quiz may end up in an unfinished state.
  • Some teachers are used to previewing things by switching to student role. If they attempt a quiz in this role, the quiz is locked down without warning and there is no undo. This occured in the usability tests of Usability_testing_in_August_2008/Issues_found#Sort_out_the_different_preview_modes August 2008.

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. 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.

Obsolete

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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