Realtime Quiz
Maintained by
Davo Smith
Face-to-face quiz with all students answering the questions at the same time.
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Could there be more than one teacher attempting to use the same quiz at the same time? (I'm not sure that is even possible, but if it was, the system could get confused). Other than that, the quiz, by its nature, does generate a lot of network traffic, as each browser needs to poll the server to ask if the next question is ready - that could be overloading your network?
We are using moodle 3.9.7;
going back to campus we decided to go back to this activity - *Realtime Quiz *- so useful in so many ways that Students are so eager to use...
In the same session and room we have Students that answer all questions (of 4, for ex.) and others that answer the 1st one and "jump" to the last one without having the chance to see or answer the middle ones...
Any news for a possible upgrade/improvement?
Thx a LOT in advance!
I am very unlikely to be adding any new features to my Realtime quiz plugin in my spare time. However, if there was funding available, then you could get in touch for a quote from my employers as to how much it would cost to develop such a feature (I'm also open to accepting a well-written patch to my code, if another developer were to write it).
This plugin does not have support for the question bank (it was originally written before the question bank, as it currently exists, had been written), nor does it have support for any sort of importing (this would probably be fairly easy to add, but would require time to implement (which could be paid for, if you had a budget to do so).
There is another plugin, based on this one, called Active quiz - https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_activequiz . This uses the question bank for questions. Unfortunately, that plugin hasn't been updated for 3 years, so I don't know if it still works with recent versions of Moodle.
This plugin is designed for live classroom usage to gather responses from a class, with the quiz under the control of a teacher. There is no option for students to start a session without the teacher being present, nor is there an option for different students to start at different times (when the quiz is running, everyone sees the same question at the same time, with the time limit countdown also occurring at the same time).
What you are asking for might be possible with a custom question behaviour ( https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=type:qbehaviour) or, more likely, it would require a custom activity type (something like that may already exist, I don't know of any such activity off the top of my head, or you could contact my employers, Synergy Learning, and we could discuss how much it cost to develop something like for you).
In addition, I would like to give the student the opportunity to take the quiz at any time, without the teacher's need to follow the test in real time.
With the plugin you are making available, would it be possible to use it as I described above?
All I can say, is that the plugin is working fine for me, so there must be something different about your setup that is causing a problem.