The OU Multi-response question type

The main difference from the standard Moodle multiple choice question type is in the way that grading works. When creating the question, the teacher just indicates which choices are correct. If there are n correct choices, then the student scores 1/n for each correct choice, and loses 1/n for each incorrect choice. So for example, suppose the question is:

Which of these animals are mammals?

A. Dog
B. Frog
C. Toad
D. Cat
E. Cow
F. Newt
G. Lion

Then

• ADEG (4 right out of 4) scores 100%.
• D (1 right) scores 25%.
• ADEGF (4 right, 1 wrong) scores 75%.
• ADEBC (3 right, 2 wrong) scores 25%.

In interactive mode, the student is given more credit for choices that are selected correctly on the first try, even if it takes more tries to get some of the other choices correct.

Acknowledgements

This is a multiple-choice, multiple-response question type that was created by Mahmound Kassaei and Tim Hunt at the Open University (http://www.open.ac.uk/).

Installation and set-up

Install from the plugins database

Install from the Moodle plugins database

• https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_oumultiresponse

Install using git

To install using git, type these commands in the root of your Moodle install git clone https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-qtype_oumultiresponse.git question/type/oumultiresponse echo '/question/type/oumultiresponse/' >> .git/info/exclude

Then run the moodle update process Site administration > Notifications