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New Feature
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Resolution: Fixed
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Minor
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4.0.6, 4.1.1
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MOODLE_400_STABLE, MOODLE_401_STABLE
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MOODLE_403_STABLE
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Background
Behind the scenes, the Moodle question system supports three options for what Mark information to display beside each question. These three choices can be seen when you preview a question in the quesion bank:
The three choices look like this:
However, until now, the quiz has only made it possible to use two of those options for the questions in a quiz attempt:
Here, Marks off corresponds to 'Show max mark only', and on corresponds to 'Show mark and max.'
Requirement
Pedagogically, there are situations were you want students to focus on the activity the quiz is getting them to perform, without any distracting thought about grades, and grade information is known to greatly distort students behaviour in some situations.
Also, sometimes, information about marks can provide meta-information which might help the student guess the right answer without knowing it. For example, if a multiple-choice, mulitple-response question is worth 3 marks, you might deduce that that you need to check three boxes.
So, we want to make all three of the Marks display options that the system is capable of available within the quiz.
Proposed solution
Unfortunately, the only way we can think of to do this is to add another option, but at least this option fits consistently into the existing layout of the settings for, so hopefully this is not a massive increase in cognative load for teachers setting up quizzes. We will add a new Max marks option above the existing Marks checkbox. Marks will only be enabled, if Max marks is turned on. That gives the required three states:
When I posted about this in the forums a while ago, the one serious response we got was in favour.