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Frequently Asked Questions

Wed, 12/23/2009 - 18:40 — admin

Clone function for questions

Questions are drupal nodes. There are module to clone nodes say node_clone [1], in this way you achieve cloning questions. Quiz 4.x is not open for new features we will consider this for quiz 5.x

[1] http://drupal.org/project/node_clone
http://drupal.org/node/699640


Creating a sequence of lessons using quiz

This can be made possible in quiz 4.x. When a question node is viewed outside of quiz it exposes its answer. This feature can be used with the combination of views and taxonomy to create lessons.


Quiz questions with images

Quiz 3.x question field doesn't supports Full HTML input. Quiz 4.x supports input formats, set the input format to Full HTML and embed the image using imce [1] or wysiwyg [2] editor.

[1] http://drupal.org/project/imce
[2] http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg


Exposing quiz results to user

  1. A User can view his/her own results under "My results" tab in user's profile page. This needs view own results permission
  2. Same way a user can view other user's profile by navigation to respective user's profile page and choosing results tab. This needs view user results permission.
  3. Quiz 3.x and higher integrate with views module. You can list user's results by creating a page view or block view. This needs access all views permission.

Long answer scoring

Long answer has to be evaluated manually. User with permission score long answer can do this. Students can view their quiz feedback under "My Results" tab in user profile page (user/[uid] page). Admin need to enable view own results permission for this.

#654978: Long answer scoring


Questions ordering doesn't works

Questions order will not reflect on already started quiz. This is because when the quiz starts the questions are loaded to session variable and it remains persistent till the end of quiz or until you logout. Unfortunately quiz starts when you click "view" tab or title of quiz node and most of the time you will *not* realize this. A logout and login may fix this.

#660440: Questions ordering doesn't works


How to enable timer and userpoint module integration ?

To achieve this, navigate to "Admin -> Quiz management -> Quiz Configuration" (or drupal path admin/quiz/settings) and check the boxes under "Addons Configuration".

Note : You need to have UserPoints and JQuery Countdown modules enabled to use this feature.


Disabling sending quiz results by email option

You can turn off this option in the Quiz settings in Admin -> Site configuration -> Quiz settings.

please refer to #591202: Disabling sending quiz results by email


Do Quiz and Gradebook integrate with each other?

Quiz & Gradebook do not integrate with each other as expected. Gradebook settings override the way Quiz behaves. Quizzes assigned to Gradebook do not start. Their is a bug already reported for this,. This is fixed. please refer to #516886: Cannot start a quiz when assigned to a gradebook


What is the purpose of the Views integration?

Views integration is an advanced feature that allows site builders to create their own lists. So far, I've seen it used to generate reports of grades, CSV exports of quiz results, reports on how many times a given user took a given quiz, and so on.

But in order to use Views integration effectively, you will need to be proficient in building views, which is a skill on its own. You would probably want to start with some of the Views tutorials out there (Lullabot has some, IIRC).

By mbutcher @ http://drupal.org/node/502674#comment-1745710


Is it possible to create a "personality quiz" with this module?

Yes. A personality quiz is possible with Quiz 3.x. Create a quiz node with the "pass rate" set to 0 on the main quiz create/edit page. We hope to split them out into their own module during Quiz 4 development. It's just too hard to have two completely different kinds of quiz supported in the same module. Related issue #446858: Availability of the Personality Quiz


Is it possible to create an adaptive quiz with Quiz 3.x?

No. Quiz 3.x can't handle adaptive quizzes. Please check out #492000: If-then-else conditions to define the next question and #413176: adaptive quiz


How to upgrade from Quiz 2.x to 3.x?

Upgrading from Quiz 2 to Quiz 3 is fully supported. We have diligently maintained upgrade scripts. You will need to:

  1. Disable the Quiz module through the admin interface. (DO NOT UNINSTALL IT)
  2. Remove the old Quiz module code under sites/all/modules
  3. Uncompress the new Quiz 3 module into sites/all/modules
  4. Enable Quiz through the admin interface. Note that there are now many modules that you can enable.
  5. Run update.php on your site. This will install the database updates.

How do I export quiz results?

Imagine you need to export quiz results at least with basic set of fields say Question, User and Answer. You can do this by creating a view and exporting to CSV. You'll need the Views and the Views Bonus Pack modules.


What question types are supported by Quiz 3.x?

Quiz 3.x supports six question types:

  • Long answer/essay question
  • Matching
  • Multi-choice question
  • Quiz directions
  • True/false question
  • Short answer question

Can I make a multi-choice question with more than one choice correct?

As of Quiz 3.x it is not possible because of the design complexity of the multichoice module. This module will be rewritten in Quiz 4.x as a part of Sivaji's GSoC project using quiz_question.module (an API to create new question types) to support this feature and it is expected to have the following features.

Types:

  1. multiple choice, single answer
  2. multiple choice, multiple answer

Scoring:

  1. Correct answer is worth N points, all others are worth 0 points
  2. Answer A is worth N points, Answer B is worth M points, Answer C is worth P points...
  3. Answer is correct only if ALL correct answers are chosen
  4. Answers are correct in proportion to the number of questions that are chosen (e.g. if A, B, and C are correct, and users selects A and B, user gets 66% of possible points)

How do I create a custom question type?

Quiz 3.x has a quiz_questions module which lets you write your own custom question type with just 100 or 150 lines of code. As of now there is no documentation for the quiz_questions module, but there are enough comment lines to describe the purpose of the classes, methods and attributes being used. The True_or_False and Matching modules were based on quiz_questions so you can take these modules as an example to build your custom quiz question type module.


How do I create a quiz block?

Quiz 3.x has the Views module integration. To create a quiz block showing the top scorers or recent quiz you can use the Views module.