PRE2017 3 Group8 moodle plugins

Currently installed plugins

• Adaptive Quiz
• Level Up! (block_xp) + Level Up! Availability (availability_xp): currently with standard settings since I didn't know if anything needed to be changed.

Basic tasks in Moodle (dutch)

• Gebruiker maken:
  • Onder instellingen: Sitebeheer > gebruikers > gebruikers > toevoegen
• Gebruiker inschrijven voor cursus en rol aangeven
  • Selecteer cursus > cursusbeheer > gebruikers > aangemelde gebruikers. En dan knop “gebruikers aanmelden” hier kan je ook rollen aangeven
• Quiz maken
  • Categorie voor vragen aanmaken: selecteer cursus > cursusbeheer > vragenpool > categorieën > voeg categorie toe.
  • Vragen maken/importeren: selecteer cursus > cursusbeheer > vragenpool > vragen > selecteer categorie > maak nieuwe vraag.
  • Quiz aanmaken: selecteer cursus > klik op ‘zet wijzigen aan’ > klik op ‘activiteit of bron toevoegen’ > selecteer ‘test’.
  • Vragen toevoegen aan quiz: creëer quiz > open quiz > klik op ‘bewerk test’ > voeg vragen toe.
• Adaptive quiz maken
  • Categorie voor vragen aanmaken: selecteer cursus > cursusbeheer > vragenpool > categorieën > voeg categorie toe.
  • Vragen maken/importeren: selecteer cursus > cursusbeheer > vragenpool > vragen > selecteer categorie > maak nieuwe vraag > geef de vraag een tag met het level van de vraag (e.g. ‘adpq_1’ voor level 1, zorg dat alle vragen in de categorie
  • Quiz aanmaken: selecteer cursus > klik op ‘zet wijzigen aan’ > klik op ‘activiteit of bron toevoegen’ > selecteer ‘Adaptive quiz’ > selecteer een vragencategorie waarin enkel vragen met een level staan onder ‘Question pool.
    • Zorg dat min en max level dat je aangeeft overeenkomen met de levels van vragen in de question pool.

Useful existing Moodle plugins

Not a plugin, but perhaps a useful site to automatically generate math questions: http://www.aschool.us/moodle-scripts/math-questions.php

The following plugins have caught the eye of the team as they can help in achieving parts of the design requirements.

Gamification

Experience points (https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=58): give experience points to students for actions, which actions and how much points can be configured. Can also restrict course content with a level requirement.

Quizzes

• Offline quiz (https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_offlinequiz): create quizzes that can be filled in on paper and will be evaluated after being scanned in. Being able to also provide quizzes on paper could improve the learning process by providing variety.
• Question types (https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=29): a list of plugins that provide question types.
  • Specifically useful types for mathematics:
    • https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=qtype_geogebra : use geogebra for questions, this software can do a lot of things with mathematics like graphing.
    • https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_stack : evaluates mathematical expressions. There are other plugins like https://moodle.org/plugins/stats.php?plugin=quiz_stack and https://moodle.org/plugins/qbehaviour_adaptivemultipart which interact with these types of questions. These plugins are listed here:
      • https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=17 . One of the plugins is response analysis allowing analysis of questions from this plugin, the descriptions of these plugins seems lacking so we won’t know exactly what the possibilities here are unless we actually try using it.
• Adaptive quiz (https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_adaptivequiz): estimates the user’s skill and gives questions appropriate for that skill.

Feedback

• https://moodle.org/plugins/report_myfeedback : students get an overview of received feedback.
• https://moodle.org/plugins/qbehaviour_deferredfeedbackexplain : allows students to add an explaination to their answer, this explaination does not get automatically graded.

For The use of stack we must install maxima on our server. download : https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/

• configure connection to maxima : https://tueslo.ga/admin/settings.php?section=qtypesettingstack

Research on visual design of the site

Some websites about effects of color on learning

In case we want to edit the color scheme of the website, colors can be selected on the effects they have on — for example — focus and efficiency.

• https://www.shiftelearning.com/blog/how-do-colors-influence-learning
• http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=hsshonors
• https://www.td.org/insights/how-color-can-affect-learning
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959475213000273 (mostly about relations between color and emotion)
• https://elearningindustry.com/4-tips-use-color-in-elearning