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Albert Gomez Post 1

• 25 January 2015, 7:49 AM

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Dear Dr Phill Butcher,

I'm currently preparing a Moodle quiz involving a simple division, but I've met the problem of how to create two boxes for students to enter the quotient in one and the remainder in the other.

Though I have the Moodle for Dummies book and have tried to find the answer, I don't seem to be very successful.

Can you help me here, please?

(By the way, congratulations on your wonderful work!)
Best wishes,

Alberto Gomez

Philip Butcher Post 2 in reply to 1

• 26 January 2015, 10:29 AM

Alberto,

    Clearly you need a question type which allows multiple entries and that's the Combined question.

I suspect this is going to require you to exercise your HTML skills to make it look like a fraction. If I were doing this I'd create a table with one column and two rows. I'd put a Numerical edit box in each cell and then I'd sort out how to hide all the cell boundaries apart from the one between the two rows. With regard to this last point you might like to read

http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=52747&section=4.3 .


Phil


Albert Gomez Post 3 in reply to 2

• 29 January 2015, 6:48 PM

Dear Phil,

Thank you for your answer. I'm afraid this HTML thing is a bit beyond me at the moment, but I'll keep trying.

Al

Philip Butcher Post 5 in reply to 3

• 3 February 2015, 11:32 AM
Attachment

I've attached a question that shows you how to create fractions (use the Manage files icon above to get it). It is written using the Combined question type so you will need to have that question type installed. It should import OK into OpenLearnWorks.

This is how it should look

Fraction using Combined and underscore

I see that I didn't use the table approach but just used underline. That's much simpler and I'm sure you can follow what's going on.

Albert Gomez Post 4 in reply to 2

• 31 January 2015, 8:38 AM • Edited by the author on 31 January 2015, 8:47 AM

Dear Phil,

I've encountered a little problem with Moodle: when trying to create new 'calculated simple' questions, the wild cards I normally use, namely {a}, {b}, and {c}, always revert to the same parameters (that is, ranges of values, tolerance, etc) and I can't find a way to adjust these for different questions, which is absolutely essential to introduce variety and to adapt different questions to different levels of difficulty. Is there something that can be done about it?

(By the way, I've been asked to teach maths at a university next year, so, what started as a small project for a small number of pupils, may end up having a wider reach. I'll be teaching teachers and other professionals, and these and their pupils/students are likely to end up logging in to this OU site and using this project. So, as I ♥ OU and Moodle, I must get everything right, mustn't I?)

Thank you,

Al

Philip Butcher Post 6 in reply to 4

• 3 February 2015, 11:43 AM

Alberto,

A few things.

1) I tend to use the variable numeric questions when using random numbers and not calculated questions but I'd expect the calculated questions to work.

2) Are you doing your developments on OpenLearnWorks? If you are it's probably easier for me to look at what you are up to and create some examples for you to look at.

If your development is on OpenLearnWorks if you can send me a link to your site I'll look at your questions.

Phil

Albert Gomez Post 7 in reply to 6

• 5 February 2015, 6:45 PM

Thank you, Phil, 

Here is a link to the OpenLearn Works site I'm currently using:

http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/question/edit.php?courseid=1936

Feel free to check the on-going work there. (I'd appreciate it if you added there the 'fraction' question you created for me in your previous letter.)

Al