Multi-choice answers

  • Resolved vrenev

    (@vrenev)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hey.
    A nice little plugin You’ve got going here. I like the lightweight design of HD quiz and also the ease of use. Great job! Only thing that I personally find missing, is the multi-choice answer capability. What I have in mind, is that you could have more than 1 correct answer in a question (the use-case I have intended for this plugin would require this feature). Have you planned for this kind of development, and if not then what would be the reason? I’m sure I’m not the only one with this request.

    Thanks very much in ahead, keep on the good work!

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  • Plugin Author Harmonic Design

    (@harmonic_design)

    Hello vrenev and thank you for your kind words.

    When originally developing HD Quiz, the plan was to have a ‘premium’ version which would include advanced customization and some extra features. Most of these features I ended up just including in this free version because I’m a great developer, but terrible businessman!

    One of the planned upgrades was to make answers ‘weighted’. So for example, if a question had 4 possible answers, you would assign each answer a numerical value. The sum of the answers value would be how much that question was worth.

    For example, Using this method, a quiz of only ten questions could have a total value of 100 points when you tally the score. In this example, each question would be worth a maximum 10 points, but each question could have an answer that is ‘almost correct’ and although not worth a complete 10 points, might be worth 8 or 5 etc.

    I ultimately decided not to code this to keep the plugin as simple and easy to use as possible.

    Is the above method what you are looking for, or are you looking for something even simpler where you can simply mark multiple answers as correct?

    Thread Starter vrenev

    (@vrenev)

    Hello!
    Thank you for Your fast and thorough response!
    Yeah, I was looking for even simpler solution than that.
    The two question-types I need for my solution would be (a random example):
    1. Select the correct answer:

    Q: 2+4 =

    • – 3
    • – 4
    • – 6

    2. Select all the correct answers (PS: you must select all correct answers):

    Q: 8 is

    • – 5+3
    • – 4+4
    • – 9+1

    Best regards,
    Rene

    Plugin Author Harmonic Design

    (@harmonic_design)

    Hi Rene,
    it looks like your use case is actually more complex than I imagined!

    Unfortunately, creating an entirely new question type where a user would have to select all correct answers would require an overhaul of the way HD Quiz check to see if an answer is correct or not as well as break certain features such as marking a question as correct/incorrect on quiz completion.

    Thread Starter vrenev

    (@vrenev)

    Yeah, I thought of customizing it myself, but soon found out I would have to refactor quite a bit of your code. Shame tho, I really liked this plugin ??

    Thank you anyway for your quick responses!

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