U Press - Quizzing Modules

This was resolved through a phone conversation. See notes below:

Thanks very much for the follow-up, Nancy, and for taking some time to talk with me and Sara this morning.

QUIZLET MODULE

Could you please refresh the following sites to include the Quizlet module in their list of available features? Thanks!

http://encounterschinese.com/ 

http://dev.encounterschinese.com/

http://dev.parenti.yale.edu/

http://dev.isfhcw.yale.edu/

http://dev.variationsstylistiques.yale.edu/

QUIZ MODULE

Thank you so much for update the quiz module! Could you please do so for all of the sites listed above, not just for Encounters? And thank you as well for passing along a link to that barebones Drupal site that allows for testing modules. Very helpful. Just so you have these on hand, here are some of our requirements for our Language website quizzes.

1. Fill in the blank questions. That is, paragraphs of content in which each sentence has one or more words missing. The student has to write in the missing word in an input field, and then, after she submits her answers, see whether or not she got it right.

2. Drop-down selections. Very similar to fill in the blank above, except, instead of a missing word and an empty input field, the reader is presented with a dropdown list of 2 or more options. The user selects an option, and then finds out after submission if she got it right or not.

3. Multiple choice, short answer, long answer (all of which seemed to be covered in theory by the current Quiz module, although I’ve found it quite difficult to implement).

Please let me know if you have any questions, and we will certainly reach out to Kimberly if we feel that we need to work with a vendor.

Best,

Tom

From: Flowers-Mangs, Nancy
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 11:20 AM
To: Sapire, Sara <sara.sapire@yale.edu>; Pasko, Kimberly <kimberly.pasko@yale.edu>
Cc: Breen, Thomas <thomas.breen@yale.edu>; Hartl, Franz <franz.hartl@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Drupal Modules Help for YUP YaleSites

Hi Sara, 

Thanks for meeting with me today. Here is a recap and action items. 

Quizzlet Module

• Allows you to pull in links that reference the flashcard quizzes that are hosted on Quizzlet.com.
• Is not connected with the Quiz module.
• We will add the Quizzlet Module to our list of available modules for YaleSites. 
• Thomas will send a list of sites that would require a refresh in order for this module to be available on those sites.

Quiz Module

• Provides all the other functionality that you are looking for to create interactive quizzes. 
• After checking with Vincent and Josue, they determined that the version that you are working with on Encounters Chinese is in need of an update and it’s entirely possible that the errors you are receiving are because of the older version. We will update the module and you can take another look and see if it is working for you. 
• It’s possible that this newer version will also address some of the challenges that I had spoken of that make the module a bit challenging to work with. 
• Also, I found this website where you can test a module configuration outside of YaleSites if you just want to poke around without any distractions. This is a barebones Drupal install with just the modules necessary to run the quiz module on D7 https://simplytest.me/project/quiz/7.x-5.x?add%5B0%5D=quiz. 

Possible Vendor Consultation

• We also discussed the possibility of working with a vendor in the event that you find the project more complex than you have the bandwidth to determine. My recommendation after speaking with Josue and Vincent is to try the newer version and see if it works better. If you feel like you need additional assistance, Kimberly can work with you to find a vendor to help with the build. 

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.