Pattern match with molecular editor
Maintained by
Tim Hunt, Mahmoud Kassaei, Hieu Vu Van
A question type where the user enters their response using the JavaScript Molecular Editor, and the response is then graded using the OU's pattern-match algorithm.
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It's working on v4.3 for us, and is supported, but we have a ton of plugins and I think that this is the least popular, so it's a case of when we can get around to it (though we make a concerted effort in June-September every year to release the latest version of our plugins with the latest version of Moodle we can test against).
However, our School of Chemistry have asked we look at something more modern. So we are about to look at https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_molsimilarity and https://moodle.org/plugins/tiny_molstructure to see if that better meet our needs. So there is certainly the possibility that we will move away from this plugin in the next couple of years.
We are in the process of upgrading to Moodle 4.1 from 3.9.
Will pmatch / pmatchjme be updated to the latest versions of Moodle?
We are still working to update this plugin, and that work is not complete yet.
fyi
jme-version
2.2 for Moodle 3.8+ (2020090800)
does´t work with
pmatch-version
3.2 for Moodle 3.11+ (2022080900)
Fatal error: Declaration of qtype_pmatchjme::delete_question($questionid, $contextid) must be compatible with qtype_pmatch::delete_question($questionid, $contextid): void in /var/www/html/moodle/hrz-mdl/question/type/pmatchjme/questiontype.php on line 114
Came back to this topic because of our continuing use of JSME without pattern match (and not sure about needing to convert 100s of questions from JSME to JSME with pattern match).
Anyway, I was just able to recreate our "old" problem (answer not saved) that we have in simple JSME with the JSME pattern match (triggered if a blank answer checked first, then new repeated drawing typically "lost"). We had previously revealed that this seems to be connected to the simple text match origins of this qu type (?) and I seem to recall being able to demo this on the OU site thus establishing it as not being an artifact of our set up. Having been using drawing questions for 20 yrs and 10+ with Moodle, it would be great to find a solution (we note that some browsers and devices make this worse than others). I'd love to hear from anyone else who has observed this, and especially anyone with a fix!