Moodle

Pre-populated essay questions

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.8.1
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Quiz
  • Labels:
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  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_18_STABLE

Description

A pre-populated essay question allows teachers to pre-populate the "Answer" area of the essay question (i.e., the html area in which the student types) with arbitrary html. For example, the teacher could insert an empty table that students fill in.

This could be a new feature of the existing Essay question type or an altogether new question type.

There have been numerous requests for special question types (e.g., for accounting) that would be satisfied by this simple feature.

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Rick Barnes added a comment -

This could be a very useful tool in on-line assignments as well.
Would uploading a text or html file as the template be possible in the same way that you can upload a file as the first page of a wiki.
Rick.

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Rick Barnes added a comment - This could be a very useful tool in on-line assignments as well. Would uploading a text or html file as the template be possible in the same way that you can upload a file as the first page of a wiki. Rick.
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Thomas Park added a comment -

I am teaching a cryptography course that would really benefit from allowing the instructor to create tables and pre-populated prompts that the student later fills in with values.

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Thomas Park added a comment - I am teaching a cryptography course that would really benefit from allowing the instructor to create tables and pre-populated prompts that the student later fills in with values.
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Dan Jeffries added a comment -

I agree with this - would be a great addition!

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Dan Jeffries added a comment - I agree with this - would be a great addition!
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Lynne Burrow added a comment -

For any even remotely mathematical or scientific subjects the ability to get students to fill in tables is a basic function.
An additional one again would be to be able to draw charts from these tables!

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Lynne Burrow added a comment - For any even remotely mathematical or scientific subjects the ability to get students to fill in tables is a basic function. An additional one again would be to be able to draw charts from these tables!
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CLAIRE BROWNE added a comment -

I would like a template of a table in the answer text field in essay type questions.

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CLAIRE BROWNE added a comment - I would like a template of a table in the answer text field in essay type questions.

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