Combined

I deliberately left variables out of the specification because I thought that adding them in would make the form too complex for most users.

Jamie, thank you so much for proposing this new question type. I see that the question type "varnumeric" is combinable, but I would like to know if there is any way to define calculated variables as we do in the varnumeric question type.

Thank Phil for suggestion,
But I need a COMBINED multichoice questions with the CIRCLE labels (one check only) instead the SQUARE labels (multi checks).

Not necessary. Just use the existing OU multiple response and in your rubric say 'select one'.

I like it ! Thank you, Jamie.
Can you add a code for multichoice questions with one answer?
Thanks

No. All parts add to the total mark for the question.

I have not installed it, yet. So... can it be used to give the student a choice of answering one of several optional questions?

Tim - I agree most Moodle users are pretty savvy, I was just thinking it would be pretty easy to avoid this by having one of the core types listed as combinable but I think Jamie's highlighting of things makes it clear enough to move forward. Peace - Anthony

OK, error message merged. Thanks Jamie. However, I am not sure it is worth re-tagging and making a new zip just for this.
I don't actually thing this is a big deal. By and large Moodle users aren't idiots, and they will at least glance at the description that says they need the other qtypes before installing this.

I added the following error message which will appear if the admin has not installed any question types that can be used as sub questions. I will send Tim a pull request with the addition :
This question type allows for the combination of the functionality of other question
types. You need to install at least one of these other question types which will be used as sub questions.
See the entry in the plug-in db for more details and a
list of question types that can be used as sub questions.

Jamie - Thanks for improving the notification. I just wondered if we added one of the core question types then we would be able to get around that error code all together unless of course someone had disabled that core question type on their site but I think it would make the likelihood of the error much less. Peace - Anthony

I went ahead and edited the entry for this question type above to make the necessity of installing other question types to use as sub questions stand out. If the user does not install a question type that can be used as a sub question they will get an error message when they try to create a combined question.
Oops, I was just checking what the message would be and unfortunately this will just be an error code right now : 'nosubquestiontypesinstalled'. I better put an informative message into the lang file.

Many thanks for the combined question type which presents a new scenario regarding dependencies. The plugin requires one of four addons to be installed for it to work; however, it is not dependent on any of them. I wonder if it might be possible to consider some (or at least one) of the core question types as being listed under combinable in order to avoid nosubquestiontypesinstalled. No one question type is needed but at least one is and our current dependencies check fails this. Might we add a hook for one of the core types? I'm open to other ideas too but I suspect that if we allow folks to use it without any dependencies and as it is that this question will come up quite a bit. Any suggestions for how best to respond to this case? Peace - Anthony