Moodle Plugin StudentQuiz

Putting students

into the Moodle

driver’s seat

eduhub Webinar

Frank Koch, May 2nd, 2018

Student

Quiz

StudentQuiz - Putting students in the Moodle driver’s seat

1. Introduction StudentQuiz

2. Demo StudentQuiz

3. Exercise StudentQuiz

4. Discussion StudentQuiz

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StudentQuiz - The Initial Motivation

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StudentQuiz - The Approach

� Cooperation

� You’re not alone

� Constructivism

� It’s good to answer a question, it’s better to create one

� See Martin Dougiamas – A journey into Constructivism

https://dougiamas.com/archives/a-journey-into-constructivism/

� Collaboration

� Create and share

� Crowd-Intelligence

� Inspiration

� Students creativity often rocks

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StudentQuiz - Properties

� StudentQuiz makes Moodle content student-driven.

� StudentQuiz enables students to collaboratively create their own question pools.

� Students can filter questions into quizzes, and they can rate and comment

questions while working through the quizzes.

� StudentQuiz collects usage data for each question and ranks students based on

their contribution and answers.

� The Personal Learning Assistance shows each student his/her individual learning

progress and compares this with the community.

� Created questions become part of the Moodle question bank and can be reused in

other Moodle quizzes.

� StudentQuiz was developed at the HSR University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, is

open source GPLv3, and can be downloaded from the Moodle Plugin Directory.

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StudentQuiz - Exercise

� Go to https://studentquiz.hsr.ch

� Create your personal account or use one of the generic logins

� Go to StudentQuiz 3.0 Demo Course and pick activity StudentQuiz Eduhub

� Hands On

1. Contribute one or more questions to StudentQuiz Eduhub

2. Filter some questions and run your quiz

3. Answer, rate and comment the questions

4. How are you doing? Check your progress bar and ranking

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StudentQuiz - Resources

� Find all resources at studentquiz.hsr.ch

� Introduction video

� Manuals

� Sandbox

� Feedback form

� Contact

� Moodle Plugin Directory

� https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_studentquiz

� Github StudentQuiz

� https://github.com/frankkoch/moodle-mod_StudentQuiz

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StudentQuiz - Usage statistic

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StudentQuiz - Example University of Otago, New Zealand

� University of Otago started in faculty of medicine with 1 800 students

� 5 shared banks:

� Obstetrics and gynaecology maintains 450 questions

� Pediatrics maintains 400 questions

� Psychology maintains 300 questions

� Pathology maintains 900 questions

� Pharmacology maintains 500 questions

� 5th year student revision course maintains 5 750 questions

� Up to 120 simultaneously working students

� No performance issues

� University of Otago now opened StudentQuiz for all its 20 000 students

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StudentQuiz - Example HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil

� Wirtschaftsinformatik

with 80 students plus

me

� Each student was

asked to provide 4

questions

� During the course of

the semester we

shared 540 questions

� Figures based on

StudentQuiz 2.0

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StudentQuiz – A student voice

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Ich habe mit der Aufarbeitung des Stoffes begonnen, StudentQuiz war dabei äusserst hilfreich.

Mit StudentQuiz konnte ich mein Verständnis des Stoffes direkt überprüfen und festigen.

I started to catch up with the class, and StudentQuiz has helped me extremely.

With StudentQuiz I could directly check and consolidate my understanding of the substance.

Mein Vorgehen war wie folgt:

• Ich filtere die Fragen nach “Tag”, “Bestätigt” und “Anzahl eigene Versuche = 0” � Quiz mit 20 neuen Fragen.

Meist konnte ich 2/3 davon auf Anhieb korrekt beantworten, da ich mich intensiv mit den Folien und dem Buch auseinander

gesetzt habe.

• Dann beantworte ich die nächsten 20 komplett neuen Fragen bis insgesamt rund 20 zuletzt falsch beantwortete Fragen

zusammengekomen sind.

• Dann filtere ich nach diesen 20 zuletzt falsch beantworteten Fragen (“My Difficulty > 0.8”). Diese sind also aus den rund 80

beantworteten Fragen die 20, welche ich nicht korrekt beantworten konnte. Ich versuche es wieder und es blieben etwa die

Hälfte, also etwa 10 davon stehen.

• Ich beantworte 40 neue Fragen um wieder etwas Abstand zu den gerade bearbeiteten Knacknüssen zu bekommen und wieder

insgesamt 20 zuletzt falsch beantwortete Fragen zusammen zu haben.

Mit der Personal Learning Assistance kann ich nun diejenigen Fragen, welche ich mindestens einmal Falsch beantwortet habe in

den kommenden Wochen wieder durchgehen und so festigen. Auch die bisher korrekt beantworteten Fragen werde ich hin und

wieder wiederholen, doch werden die Intervalle dafür natürlich grösser.

StudentQuiz - Practical Experiences

� Think about the question types allowed

� Train students how to create good questions, especially MCQ

� Contribute some good quality questions as guide lines first

� Require a minimum number of questions from each student

� Create a gamified atmosphere

� Be fast with comments, be hard with approvals and deletes

� You maybe want to mention that you “maybe” want to recycle some

good questions for the exam ;-)

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StudentQuiz - Summary

� Moodle content is very much teacher driven. StudentQuiz is a chance to create

student driven content.

� Students learn more by creating questions rather than just consuming them.

� Even if a single student contributes only a little, a larger cohort could easily build

up an extensive question pool.

� Even though StudentQuiz has a crowd focus, each student gets an overview

about his or her individual performance.

� StudentQuiz manages quality by rating, commenting, and approving.

� StudentQuiz helps you to handle a huge quantity of questions.

� Allowed questions types can be restricted.

� Questions can be reused in normal Moodle quizzes.

� The ranking table creates competition and can be used to check on contribution

and performance.

� StudentQuiz is gamified and fun to play.

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StudentQuiz – Roadmap and Discussion

Discussion

� Anything missing?

� Special learning scenario?

� Are you interested using

StudentQuiz?

� Cooperation ideas?

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� Roadmap for us developers

� Getting ready for Moodle Mobile

� Setup Activity completion

� Setup Gradebook

� Streamline teacher workflow

� Next Steps for you

� Create your account at studentquiz.hsr.ch

� Pleeeeaaaase fill in the feedback form

� Come back to studentquiz.hsr.ch as often as you like

� Share the introduction video with interested colleagues

� Feel free to contact frank.koch@hsr.ch