Addition of an 'Open Question' type?

Submitted by simonhardaker on Thu, 08/18/2016 - 15:48
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Hi,

We have begun using H5P exstensively in the online materials for a Medical degree programme. The current content types are serving us well but ideally we'd like to see the addition of what could be described as an 'open question'.

Our online materials include lots of questions where the students are asked things like - What do you think is happening here? We currently use another plug-in that supports open questions where students can enter some text as their answer and then click a button to reveal a model answer to them.

I assume that this question type would be fairly easy to develop.

Ideally we'd like to be able to manage all of our question assets using a single tool/system (H5P). 

Are there currently any plans to develop a question type such as this?

Thanks

Simon

Summary: 
Open ended question
Content types: 
New Content type
Issue Status: 
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otacke

Thu, 08/18/2016 - 18:55

...or are they? There's a fairly new library called Open-Ended-Question. The code suggests it does want you need.

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falcon

Fri, 08/19/2016 - 10:07

ETA for Open Ended Question is September 15th. Answers will not be stored by H5P so you'll need a Learning Record Store or some other software to store the user's answers to these questions.

simonhardaker

Fri, 08/19/2016 - 11:07

Thanks for the responses otacke and falcon.

We don't necessarily need to store our students responses to open ended questions (although it could be useful in the future). 

Simon

simonhardaker

Fri, 08/19/2016 - 11:18

...but is September 15th the earliest I could test out the open ended question type or can I take the files posted up on GitHub and import them into one of our WordPress sites to take a look?

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thomasmars

Mon, 08/22/2016 - 10:28

The "Open-ended-question" library is a sub-content-type which is currently only availble through the "questionnaire" content type. You can test it out now by grabbing questionnaire and open-ended-question from github. Some developer knowledge may be required in order to build and upload the libraries, though it should be possible by following the readme and google-jutsu.

The content type is under development, so there may be bugs and functionality may change.

awhelan

Mon, 09/26/2016 - 03:30

Is there an update on this feature to add an 'open' question please? Thanks

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thomasmars

Mon, 09/26/2016 - 10:05

Yes, there is an open-ended-question content type as described in a previous comment.

This will be available as stand-alone and inside IV, but you must have an LRS integration in order to process the answers that are sent in. The new content types should be available sometime this week, when the latest libraries are released.

simonhardaker

Wed, 10/05/2016 - 13:39

Hi,

I've updated my H5P plugin and all of my libraries but I'm having trouble seeing the questionnaire/open-ended question type.

I've recorded a short (1 min 44 secs) screencast with narration to show what I see:

http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cD6hXwjUCT

Any ideas?

Thanks

Simon

Additional Information

WordPress Version: 4.6.1

H5P Plugin Version: 1.7.3

All libraries updated today (5th October 2016) using the release from 29th September 2016.

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icc

Thu, 10/06/2016 - 09:36

Hi, and thank you for the thorough go through of the issue!

We have not seen this happen before. I'm assuming that the updating of the libraries went OK without any error messages. 
Could you try opening the console in your browser to look for any error messages when viewing the broken question? In Chrome you should be able to do this using Ctrl + Shift + J.

simonhardaker

Mon, 10/10/2016 - 16:06

Apologies for the delay in responding to this.

I've captured what I'm seeing in the error consoles for both Chrome and Safari. You can view it here:

http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cD662fjyoj

Thanks

Simon

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icc

Tue, 10/11/2016 - 10:01

Ah, indeed the Questionnaire is broken on WordPress when using the resume functionality… I'll create a blocker issue for this so we can get it fixed as fast as possible.

simonhardaker

Wed, 10/12/2016 - 10:43

Once I unchecked the 'Allow logged-in users to resume tasks' option in Settings > H5P the Questionnaire appeared within the page.

Thanks

Simon

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papi Jo

Tue, 01/31/2017 - 10:47

SPAM !

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icc

Wed, 02/01/2017 - 08:53

Not to worry, it's gone!

OliverColeman

Tue, 02/07/2017 - 04:23

I created a new content type for this as nothing else out there either worked or fit our requirements. Main features:

  • Standalone question type.
  • Add image and/or HTML text for the question.
  • Optionally add a rubric (marking criteria) with HTML text and a weight/maximum score for each criterion.
  • Rubric may optionally be displayed to user (our third-party system pulls this out of the JSON content to allow a marker to mark the question in a Drupal Quiz according to the rubric).
  • Optionally display a Submit button, after which no more editing may occur. The submit button generates an xAPI event with the 'answered' verb.
  • Option to generate xAPI events at regular intervals or on other triggers (with the 'responded' or 'initialised' verb). Third-party systems may use this, for example, to save the current answer to a server and restore it in the event of a page reload.

Project page: https://github.com/OliverColeman/h5p_long_text_question

Download: https://github.com/OliverColeman/h5p_long_text_question/files/756452/H5P...

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falcon

Tue, 02/07/2017 - 11:07

Awesome! It would be great to make this available under examples and downloads so that everyone can easily find it and install it if they want to. Would you consider applying for developer access and share it under examples and downloads? You can then create and manage a project page for this content type here on H5P.org, and you'll be able to share new content types as well without going through another application process.

Also the core team is working on the content type hub right now. When it is released admins on all H5P sites will be able to browse and install all H5P content types without ever leaving their site. The data for the content type hub browser will be retrieved from examples and downloads on H5P.org.

simonhardaker

Tue, 02/07/2017 - 11:40

Hi Oliver,

This question type looks great. It's pretty much exactly what we require.

I've downloaded the question type and uploaded it to our test site to try it out.

However, I can't seem to get the text to display after submission (the text that I added in the Submission Text area).

I've created a short video detailing what I'm seeing (headphones/speakers required):

http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cbni6a6nRO

Any advice you could give me would be great. 

Thanks

Simon

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papi Jo

Thu, 02/09/2017 - 17:58

GRRR!