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Combined

Maintained by Tim Hunt, Mahmoud Kassaei, Phil Butcher, Anupama Sarjoshi
A Moodle question type which allows questions to be built up from parts that are other simpler question types (requires you to have these question types installed)
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Supports Moodle 2.5-5.0 See all versions
Latest release: 1 year ago
Installations: 1396
Downloads (last 90 days): 291
Frankenstyle name: qtype_combined
Question types
Open University

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Chris Nelson
Just to update everyone, we are now testing Combined for M4.0, release should be soon.
Akhmad Ni'am
Hi everyone, can we add essay type in this plugin? so that students can attach pictures of working steps in math question
Chris Nelson
Unfortunately it is a very complicated question type! We want to release good-quality code once, rather than a slew of updates. It is on its way, though.
For Linh
A month has passed!
Jacob Daniels
Ah okay. That's Great! Thank you so much.
Chris Nelson
Literally working on it right now! (We have had a long list of other OU questions to do - some of which are Combined sub-questions, so we had to do them first!)
Tim
Making it work is number 1 item on my development todo list. (Unfortunatly, things keep happening which stop me doing any development.) Hopefully next week.
Jacob Daniels
Hi Everyone, I was wondering if there is an update on the timeline for the combined plugin being updated for moodle 4.0. All the best. Thank you.
Tim
Note, Moodle 4 version of pmatch is on github now, but we are testing it before release, which is good, becuase there are some minor bugs that are worth fixing before we put it here.
Chris Nelson
Hi @Dimitris and @Morgan,
The new Moodle 4-compatible version of PMatch should be released later this week.
Morgan Dunsfield
Hi.
Just letting you know that I upgraded my Moodle site to 4.02 and this question quit working. I ran it by the experts that host my site and they found a bug--too complicated for a layperson like myself to relay. So, here's my even bigger question: will you be releasing an updated version of this plugin soon? Many thanks!
Chris Nelson
Hi Martin,
It is indeed a slightly lighter-weight implementation in terms of us trying to minimise the sub-question form length, but the functionality is pretty intact. Could you tell us how your requirements aren't being met when using Combined PMatch? Examples/use cases really help us understand the issue, If it's a long post and needs images, best to post in the Moodle Quiz forum (https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=121) and mention the thread here.
Many thanks,
Chris.
Martin Latschenberger
Hello,
as far as I could see so far the Pattern Match as part of qtype_combined seems to be restricted compared to qtype_pmatch. Are there plans to extend the „combined pmatch“ with the full qtype_pmatch functionality?
This would be really helpful …
Looking forward to your reply, Martin
Dimitris Sakellaridis
Many thanks for getting back to me Chris that is totally understandable. I was only after an indication that 4.0 support was on the roadmap so thank you!
Chris Nelson
Hi @Dimitris,
We are due to move to Moodle 4.0 in our next release, although we have been working on Moodle 4 compatibility for our plugins for the last few months (alas, we have quite a few plugins but our team is small). Additionally, our lead developer is on holiday for two weeks, so I'm afraid I can't answer this query at the moment sad However, I will try to get an answer for you by the end of the month.