This is a maintenance release to fix bugs and add more automated tests.
Important note: I have found that the previous release (2.1 from January 2018) contains a bug in the calendar events management that could stop the cron from running with Moodle recent versions.
I apologize for that.
Becaus eof that bug all users of the Question creation activity module should upgrade to the present version.

This is a maintenance release that fix several problems with Moodle versions. It has been tested with versions up to Moodle 3.4
There is no new feature

This is just a maintenance release to fix minor problems with Moodle 3.0.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

This activity needs that your Moodle cron is working and executed at regular and short intervals.
Since Moodle 2.7 and the introduction of scheduled tasks the recommended interval between cron executions is 1 minute.
See https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Scheduled_tasks . The creation activity rely on scheduled tasks to upgrade grades and
more importantly to update students capacities on question categories. If the cron is not working properly, you students
will not be able to create any question and they will receive an error message when they try to do so.

This is a maintenance release to fix a bug in the "Export good questions" function. Thanks to Alex Contis for reporting the problem.

This is a maintenance release to fix a problem in backup/restore, see CONTRIB-5419 tracker issue.
No new feature, no database change.

The Question Creation Activity is a graded activity where students must create questions in the Moodle question bank. A teacher grades the questions.

The students get a grade for the questions they create.

You can specify a percentage of the grade to be automatically assigned depending on how many of the required questions the student creates and the rest of the grade awarded to the student to be dependent on the grade a teacher assigns for the questions created.

It is possible to choose that the activity is 100% automatic grading without any teacher manual grading, or 100% manually graded by teachers.

You can chose the question types students will be allowed to create and the number of questions required to complete the activity.

This activity is for Moodle 2.7.x and 2.8 versions, it will not work with Moodle previous versions.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

This activity uses scheduled tasks and needs that your Moodle cron is working and executed at regular and short intervals. If the cron is not working properly, you students will not be able to create any question and they will receive an error message when they try to do so.

This activity is for Moodle 2.7.x and 2.8 versions, it will not work with Moodle previous versions.

This module was originally created by Jamie Pratt (e-Mail: me@jamiep.org) with funding from Future University Hakodate
http://www.fun.ac.jp/e/
The module was originally conceived and partially designed by Peter Ruthven-Stuart (http://www.ruthven-stuart.org),
Future University - Hakodate.
It has been migrated to Moodle 2.x-versions by gtn gmbh (global training network ltd. - http://gtn-solutions.com,
http://www.exabis.at
It was upgraded to Moodle 2.7 and enhanced by Jean-Michel Vedrine (email vedrine@vedrine.net).

• qcreate - Bugs, Feature Requests, and Improvements *

If you have any problems installing this activity or suggestions for improvement please create an issue in the tracker https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB/component/10260

• qcreate - History *

First official publishing-date: 2007/11/21 09:19:34 jamiesensei
Migration to Moodle 2.4 2013/03/28 gtn gmbh
Migration to Moodle 2.7 2014/08/02 Jean-Michel Vedrine

QUICK INSTALL

There are two installation methods that are available. Follow one of these, then log into your Moodle site as an administrator
and visit the notifications page to complete the install.

==================== MOST RECOMMENDED METHOD - Git ====================

If you do not have git installed, please see the below link. Please note, it is not necessary to set up the SSH Keys.
This is only needed if you are going to create a repository of your own on github.com.

Information on installing git - http://help.github.com/set-up-git-redirect/

Once you have git installed, simply visit the Moodle root directory and clone git://github.com/jmvedrine/qcreate.git
Remember to rename the folder to qcreate if you do not specify this in the clone command

Eg. Linux command line would be as follow -

git clone -b git://github.com/jmvedrine/qcreate.git mod/qcreate

Use git pull to update this repository periodically to ensure you have the latest version.

==================== Download the qcreate module. ====================

Visit https://github.com/jmvedrine/qcreate/ and download the zip, uncompress this zip and extract the folder.
The folder will have a name similar to qcreate-master, you MUST rename this to qcreate.
Place this folder in your mod folder in your Moodle directory.

nb. The reason this is not the recommended method is due to the fact you have to over-write the contents of this folder
to apply any future updates to the qcreate module. In the above method there is a simple command to update the files.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

This activity needs that your Moodle cron is working and executed at regular and short intervals.
Since Moodle 2.7 and the introduction of scheduled tasks the recommended interval between cron executions is 1 minute.
See https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Scheduled_tasks . The creation activity rely on scheduled tasks to upgrade grades and
more importantly to update students capacities on question categories. If the cron is not working properly, you students
will not be able to create any question and they will receive an error message when they try to do so.