non-multichoice question? - some options

essay questions are not currently supported.

This is an interesting idea though. The question is not really a problem,
the hardest part is figuring out how to score the answer.

We'd have to have some sort of interface for the admin to go through each submitted
essay and score it. And we'd probably need a way to assign more points to this question
than a standard multiple-choice.

any ideas?

essay questions are not currently supported.

This is an interesting idea though. The question is not really a problem,
the hardest part is figuring out how to score the answer.

We'd have to have some sort of interface for the admin to go through each submitted
essay and score it. And we'd probably need a way to assign more points to this question
than a standard multiple-choice.

any ideas?

Yeah, I've had this request from clients too. It's a little difficult.
Besides what you mentioned, some other issues too, involving workflow - clearly a quiz containing responses that are to be subjectively evaluated should not display results, etc. at the end of the quiz. How to make this sufficiently apparent during the quiz creation process?

Furthermore, if results are not visible at the end of the quiz, a mechanism needs to be introduced to let a quiz taker view his results once the quiz has been evaluated.

"We'd have to have some sort of interface for the admin to go through each submitted
essay and score it."

This should probably be a user permission - 'allow_subjective_evaluation' (and also perhaps 'allow_subjective_evaluation_on_own_quiz').

I've had a system developed for language exercises (see http://tuit.glottalstart.com) and the solution we arrived at to give us the greatest flexibility was a custom mark up language (http://tuit.glottalstart.com/manual/tagdescriptions.htm) for the creation of exercises. We ran out of money to support development but the next step would have been to create a similar mark up system for the correction of essay questions. (This could be given a WYSIWYG interface.) This is not particularly difficult to do. I've since opened the source of the project so if there's any code someone wants to reuse, help yourself.

Hi,

I am also looking for a solution of combined multiple choice questions and open/essay questions.
Is the Quizz module supporting this now?

Greetings,
Martijn

This is being developed for Quiz 3.

Hi,

Is there a timeplanning for Quiz 3? I really would like to have the possibility to insert essay questions (preferred drupal 6).
Thanks a lot for a great module already!

Greetings,
Martijn

Yes. It will should be in beta by the end of November. (Fortunately, work needs are driving rapid development)

Hi,

t`hinking about this, may be the following process flow is valid (like with publishing nodes).
People answer the questions, multiple choice and open questions. Then they send the quiz.

One- if the quiz are only multiple choice questions, they got immediate answer of how they did it
Two if there are open questions in the quiz, they get a message that the quiz is under review and they hear about it soon

Detail Two:
The open questions are put in a workflow and when they are answered, the answer is published, when every question is answered, so all answers are published, then a message goes out to the user what his/her results are.

Is this helping you?
Thanks a lot in advance for going into this.

greetings,
Martijn

Great ideas.

Step one is how the new long_answer content type is handling things (take a look at the dev release -- it's relatively stable because I haven't had much time to break it yet).

The suggestion for step two is a good idea. Feel like sketching it out any more? How configurable would we make the workflow? What would each discrete step be? What modules out there might get us farther down the path?

Again, good ideas. This would definitely be an exciting direction to take Quiz.

Hi,

May be the rules module (www.drupal.org/project/rules ) will help?
I will look into the .dev version of quiz 3 on 6!

Greetings,
Martijn

Martijn: If I set up long answer questions to allow actions, do you think we might be able to accomplish your goals this way?

Hi Matt,
Yes I think so!.
Will add above workflow to action thread :)
Thanks in advance,
greetings,
Martijn

Long and short answer questions are supported.

Both questions in this ticket are fixed in the 7.x-5.x branch. See updated summary for details!