JazzQuiz

Sorry about the low activity and long delay. My intention is to keep maintaining it, but I am not in a situation where I can make promises. Last year was particularly bad. Now I will have to have a serious look at all the Moodle plugins that we maintain over the next few weeks, and get them up to date with new versions of moodle. I think we can manage that at least.

Hello. This plugin seems very useful and I would very much like to give it a try. However, my installation is v3.9. I have read George's comment (on Sept 8) and also Florian's comment (Sept 14) about problems on a 3.9 installation, and I wonder if there have been any developments and if the plugin is still actively maintained. I would appreciate it if you let us know.

George, thanks for your reply on May 27. What I meant to be asking was whether it is possible to delete session reports (under the rightmost tab of the three tabs "View" – "Edit" – "Report") inside a Jazz Quiz instance without deleting the instance itself.

On the note of compatibility with Moodle v3.9 I would like to mention two things that I think do not work properly (even though I have no comparison to earlier versions). First, while editing Jazz Quiz' content, filtering by tags does not work (the selected tag just disappears upon the automatic refresh), and neither does unticking any of the three check boxes underneath ("Show question text..." etc.). Second, the Vote button always appears greyed out such that it cannot be clicked. Can you confirm this?

Sorry about that.
Yes, it was my intention to keep it up to date, and I think it unlikely that it does not work with 3.9 without too much trouble, but because of the pandemic, I find myself not using JazzQuiz this year. I'll have a look and see if I can do some testing and a release next week.

Hi, it looks great but my institution uses version 3.9 I see that the last supported version is 3.7
Have you tested with that version of moodle? Are there plans to support this version?

No, sorry. We designed JazzQuiz as a medium for spontaneous discussion and polling. Grading the students' answers was never part of the use case. Grading participation arguably could have been.
I'll think about it, if it might be feasible to extend the scope in a future version, but it won't be soon.

Hi. we installed and tested Jazz quiz, after using active quiz for a while. The staff reports are well received, however we only just noticed that jazz quiz does not go to the gradebook and also does not give a report for the students to review previous attempts. Is there a way to turn this functionality back on so we can have the best of both worlds. Good reporting for staff and grade in the gradebook with a student review page
Cheers Scott

Of course, but that is done at the course level, like any other quiz activity, and thus has nothing to do with JazzQuiz. JazzQuiz does not maintain any data which is not part of the activity instance, so once you delete it from the module, it should be clean. If it isn't it is a bug.

Thanks for this great activity! Just in the interest of house keeping, I was wondering whether it is possible to delete sessions, e.g. one that were only meant for testing.

Wow, what a great article it is! Your posts are so interesting and providing me great information.This is really effective for us. Thanks for the shearing…

Huge thanks, Sebastian - and just to confirm that everything is working fine here now with IE. Really do appreciate your help with this!

Thanks for your feedback. The Moodle 3.1-3.4 and Internet Explorer compatibility issues have been fixed in v0.9.1. In addition, some other critical bugfixes as well.

Hi Sebastian. Again, I can only say thank you for all your efforts with developing and sharing this plugin, which has received really excellent feedback from many of our staff. With that said, and regrettably, I just wanted to let you know about another fairly critical issue affecting use of Jazzquiz under IE (I'm unsure if it's related to the javascript issues I previously reported: https://github.com/KQMATH/moodle-mod_jazzquiz/issues/16), which involves the 'Start quiz' button not showing. The steps to reproduce this are a) enter a Jazzquiz activity using IE 11, b) enter a name for the session and click the 'Start Session' button, c) when the following page loads you should see the start quiz button displayed for a very brief time, after which it disappears and the rest of the page loads as normal. Unfortunately, in our testing without the start quiz button being visible and clickable, the teacher is then unable to proceed any further.
If you're able to shed any light on what's happening here we'd really appreciate it because, unfortunately (and certainly not by choice!), many of our users - and probably many others elsewhere - are still forced into making use of IE sometimes.
Many thanks again for this great tool.

Thanks George, that sound good, I will wait your news.