Query for Activequiz to support global search

[Lina-LI-Na]

Hi John. Many thanks for providing this plugin to the community; its functionality is really appreciated by our staff and students, and we’re really grateful to you for your efforts to maintain and update it.

On that note, please could I quickly query whether you have any plans to update the plugin to be fully compatible with Moodle v3.1, and its new Global Search feature in particular? To clarify: while we’ve tested the Active quiz plugin under v3.1 and all of the core functionality seems to work fine, we’ve found that instances of the activity are not searchable via v3.1’s Global Search feature. Please see the following screenshot for details, which lists all of the available areas that can searched under v3.1 (note that these settings are available via: Site Administration -> Plugins -> Search -> Manage Global Search):

http://imgur.com/lWWQByE

Note also that the above screenshot was taken on a v3.1 system where the Active quiz plugin is installed and available. However, as you can see, the Active quiz activity is not listed as being available to be searched. Obviously, this is likely to be a significant problem/cause of confusion for users who might want to search for specific instances of the Active quiz activity across Moodle.

I’m not a developer, but my understanding is that mod plugins can be made searchable relatively easily via the addition of a new search class within the plugin’s codebase (located at ../classes/search/activity.php). Please see the following for further details:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=334938
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Global_search
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Search_API

We really hope this search capability can be added to Active quiz as I’m sure it would be a huge benefit to our users (as well as those of other v3.1 systems) and, again, many thanks for all your efforts to develop this plugin and share it with the community.

Best wishes,
Lina

[jhoopes]

Hi Lina,

I'll take a look at this to add support in the future. Right now, since I've been out of working on this for quite some time, it might be a little bit before I can support this better.

[Lina-LI-Na]

Hi John, Thanks for your reply and thanks for letting me know about the situation. Many thanks for your great contributions for developing the active quiz plugin. We’ll be looking forward to your update. Thanks. Best wishes, Lina ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Na Li, AFHEA 李娜 Educational Technologist, Academic Enhancement Centre<http://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/academics/aec.html>, Office 1160B, Central Building, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), No.111 Ren'ai Road, Dushu Lake Higher Education Town, Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, P R China 215123. Phone: (0086) 0512-88161279 E-mail: na.li@xjtlu.edu.cn<mailto:na.li@xjtlu.edu.cn> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: John Hoopes <notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com>> Reply-To: jhoopes/moodle-mod_activequiz <reply@reply.github.com<mailto:reply@reply.github.com>> Date: Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 3:12 AM To: jhoopes/moodle-mod_activequiz <moodle-mod_activequiz@noreply.github.com<mailto:moodle-mod_activequiz@noreply.github.com>> Cc: na li <na.li@xjtlu.edu.cn<mailto:na.li@xjtlu.edu.cn>>, Author <author@noreply.github.com<mailto:author@noreply.github.com>> Subject: Re: [jhoopes/moodle-mod_activequiz] Query for Activequiz to support global search (#41) Hi Lina, I'll take a look at this to add support in the future. Right now, since I've been out of working on this for quite some time, it might be a little bit before I can support this better. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#41 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/APfxOb_mWXyTkW9Ss85xSubrX0B4Ajkhks5rSR4EgaJpZM4JHvxK>.