WARNING : I am now retired and I stopped all Moodle related activities. This repository is here just for history and this work is not maintained any more. Feel free to fork it and modify it to suit your needs or improve compatibility with recent Moodle versions. Additionaly you can consider contacting the Moodle team and become the new maintainer of this plugin. Thanks
This is a question type plugin for Moodle with random values and multiple answer fields.
The answer fields can be placed anywhere in the question so that we can create questions involving various answer structures such as coordinate, polynomial and matrix.
Other features such as unit checking and multiple subquestions are also available.
These functionalities can simplify the creation of questions in many fields related to mathematics, numbers and units, such as physics and engineering.
This question type was written by Hon Wai Lau and versions for Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 are still available at the original author website at the date of this writting https://code.google.com/p/moodle-coordinate-question/downloads/list
This question type was upgraded to the new question engine introduced in Moodle 2.1 by Jean-Michel Vedrine
This version is compatible with Moodle 2.6 and ulterior versions.
###Requirements
You will need to install Tim Hunt's Adaptive question behaviour for multi-part questions (qbehaviour_adaptivemultipart) prior to installing the formulas question type.
You can get it from the Moodle plugin directory https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=qbehaviour_adaptivemultipart or from Github https://github.com/maths/moodle-qbehaviour_adaptivemultipart
You absolutely need version 3.3 or newer of this behaviour, the formulas question type will not work with previous versions.
###Installation
####Installation from the Moodle plugin directory This question type is available from https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=qtype_formulas
Install as other Moodle question type plugin
####Installation Using Git
To install using git type these commands in the root of your Moodle install: git clone git://github.com/jmvedrine/moodle-qtype_formulas.git question/type/formulas echo '/question/type/formulas/' >> .git/info/exclude
####Installation From Downloaded zip file
Alternatively, download the zip from https://github.com/jmvedrine/moodle-qtype_formulas
unzip it into the question/type folder, and then rename the new folder to formulas.
This question type is very powerful and permit creation of a wide range of questions.
But mastering all the possibilities require some practice and there is a learning curve on creating formulas questions.
Unfortunately there is not yet an up-to date documentation, so here are some pointers to the available help :
- first you can import the Moodle xml file samples/sample-formulas-questions.xml and play with the included formulas questions.
- You can visit Hon Wai Lau's original tutorial and documentation for the version for Moodle 1.9 at https://code.google.com/p/moodle-coordinate-question/wiki/Tutorial and https://code.google.com/p/moodle-coordinate-question/wiki/Documentation but be warned there are some differences with the actual version
- you can read discussions about the formulas question type in the Moodle quiz forum for instance https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=181049 and https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163345
- you can post your questions in this forum