Deferred feedback with explanation

Maintained by Tim Hunt, Anupama Sarjoshi
This question behaviour is just like deferred feedback, but with an additional input box where students can give a reason why they gave the answer they did.
Price option: Free

Supports Moodle 2.6-4.0 See all versions
Latest release: 4 years ago
Installations: 292
Downloads (last 90 days): 25

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Question behaviour

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Hi Tim,
is this also working with 4.5? We are using it now with 4.1.x with no problems.
Best regards
Sebastian
Hi Antonia
1. This is a fundametal issue with behaviours in Moodle. The way it works at the moment, you can only choose the behaviour for automatically graded questions. This needs to be fixed, and is on my todo list, but it is not obvious how to deal with it, so it has not happened yet. Anwyay, the OU wants this too.
2. I think the issue with removing question behaviours is: Moodle will only let you remove the plugin if there are no question-attempts that use that behaviour. That is becuase, things would break if you remove a plugin that is required to review a particular quiz attempt. So, if you delete all the quiz attempts, then you can uninstall the plugin. Otherwise you can't. What you can do, on Manage question behaviours, is disable the plugin, which means that it can no longer be selected when editing quiz settings.
Hi Tim,
We evaluated this plugin for the use of commenting on questions in exams regarding quality of the question. A student might note down why he/she is confused by the question and the teacher might use this information to improve his style of asking question in future exams.
It is very helpful that I can change the text and lable of the explanation via language file in these regards!
We missed the possibility of commenting on open ended questions (like the essay question) and wondered, if there is a chance you would implement this possibility?
We also wanted to see how easy it is to uninstall the plugin in case we decide to no longer use it in the future. It turned out that this is by no means easy. Also checking github we did not find any instructions on uninstalling the question behaviour. Could you give us some advice on this?
Best regards,
Antonia
Is anyone seeing this plugin having problems in Version 3.11+?
It would be possible (using similar code to what qtype_essay uses). However, it would require someone to develop the feature. I am afraid that at the moment I have neither the time nor inclination to do that. However, if someone else is able to do the work, I would be delighted to receive a pull request to merge.
Would it be possible to allow uploading files in the plugin?
I'm asking because if this was possible, students could use the sketch ability in the editor (drawings) to explain their own thinking in mathematical questions.
At the moment I'm using an additional free text question to achieve this goal, but implementing it directly into your plugin would be much more elegant.
I think the explanations added will show up in the Responses report in the quiz. https://docs.moodle.org/35/en/Quiz_responses_report
Hello Tim,
Thank you for this plugin!
A question: there is any page/report where the teacher can see the additional feedback in a concentrated form?
Just pushed a new version that works with Moodle 3.2-3.4.
I have just tested, and this seems to work with Moodle 3.2 and 3.3 smile
Thanks, Tim! When you created this plugin in response to my request, it really helped us. We have recently upgraded our Moodle installation to version 3.2. It does not appear that this question behavior has been ported to the latest versions yet. Can you please do that?
The only options I can think of are the ones you give. I think this will meet your need. Do you have a test Moodle site where you can try it, before you install it into your real site?
I'm interested in setting up quizzes in true-false-justify format (where students are expected to first classify a statement as true or false, then justify their answer). This quiz behavior combined with true/false questions is the first thing I've stumbled across that looks like it would do that conveniently -- the other options I've come up with are Cloze (which I find clunky) or alternating T/F and essay questions (which you couldn't then randomize the order of).
Am I right that this will get the job done? Is there another way that would be easier? If the answers are yes and no respectively I'll push the button ASAP. Thanks!
Sorry, no.
Hi Tim,
When I choose Deferred feedback with explanation option in quiz settings it adds the "Give your reasons" option to all the questions in quiz, is there any option to deactivate it for some of the questions?
Thanks in advance