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I have released a new version of my #Moodle #gapfill question type to the moodle org Plugins database. Gapfill makes it very easy to create "fill in the gaps" style quesitons and includes features not available in any other Moodle quesiton type.

This version adds support for the default tinyMCE html editor when creating per gap feedback.

See the release notes here
https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_gapfill/2.15/39293

#edtech #teaching #learning

I have created a banch of my #Moodle #gapfill question type that allows the creation of per gap feedback with the tinyMCE text editor. You can read about it here

https://github.com/marcusgreen/moodle-qtype_gapfill/wiki/Per-Gap-Feedback

#edteach #teaching #learning

I have updated my #Moodle #Gapfill question type to confirm compatibility with Moodle 5.1

Although there are big changes to the folder structure for Moodle 5.1 no functional changes were required for Gapfill. This makes me optimistic about confirming compatibility for my #Wordselect and #AIText question types.

https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_gapfill

#edtech #teaching #learning

Für #moodle gibt es das Plugin "Erweiterter Lückentext" (#gapfill ) von @marcusgreen . Damit lassen sich auch Grafiken beschriften. Allerdings ist das Schreiben solcher Bildaufgaben technisch etwas anspruchsvoller. Deshalb gibt es nun einen Generator, der den dafür notwendigen HTML-Code erzeugt: https://gigers.com/matthias/tools/gapfill_generator.html

Mal schauen, was die #moodlebande damit alles anstellen kann.

ByCS Lernplattform who look after the #Moodle used in the schools in the German state of Bavaria have a new #questionbank plugin.

It uses a #LLM #AI to generate quiz questions. It works with core question types and I adapted it to work with my #gapfill question type in under an hour. That was a configuration task rather than programming.

It is very good

https://moodle.org/plugins/qbank_questiongen

All software has #bugs

I made my first github commit for the #Moodle #Gapfill question type In April 2012. I have made 1,510 commits since then. This year on Feb 5 2025 Mark Johnson reported a bug in backup caused by spelling errors in field names.

https://github.com/marcusgreen/moodle-qtype_gapfill/issues/117
I have created a #behat test to reproduce the bug and a patch to fix it. It took approximately 5 hours in total.
All software has bugs, automated tests are not a luxury.

My #Moodle #gapfill and #wordselect #quiz question types have received new “Early Bird” badges. This means I have confirmed they are compatible with Moodle 4.5.
You can find the question types here
https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_gapfill
And
https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_wordselect

New version of Gapfill

I have released an updated version of my #Moodle #Gapfill #question type for the #quiz activity

It confirms compatibility with Moodle 4.5 and includes a fix for a PHP 8.2 related issue. Gapfill is a very easy to use #Cloze fill in the blanks, or drag drop words question type.
Your can find it here

https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_gapfill

I released my #Moodle #Gapfill question type in 2012, as a way of “scratching the itch” caused when I found the existing #Cloze question type hard to use.

https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_gapfill

Fourteen years on and it is recorded as being installed on (at least) 4,700 web sites, and that makes me happy. Meanwhile I have made a slight contribution to a plugin that makes Cloze a little easier to use
https://moodle.org/plugins/tiny_cloze
#teaching #education #edtech

One of the exciting things I find about writing Free, #FLOSS software is discovering people who create tutorials about it. I found a Youtube video in Spanish describing my #Moodle #Gapfill #quiz question type which delighted me. The plugin can be found here
https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_gapfill
and the video is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-5St9252NI

Software development is iceberg shaped, most of it is “below the surface” involving maintenance and working out if a reported issue really is a “bug”.

I recently had a lovely instance of this with my Moodle #Gapfill question type. It involved 30 comments over about two days. In the end it was not a bug in my code, and the solution included input from two other very experienced developers.

Read about it here
https://github.com/marcusgreen/moodle-qtype_gapfill/issues/106
#moodle #vle #edtech #education #softwaredevelopment

I have just run the Behat automated tests for my #Moodle #Gapfill #question type

https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_gapfill

against the most recent beta version of Moodle 4.3. I am delighted to say that the tests ran and so it will be ready for use when 4.3 is released on 9 Oct. Next stop will be to test my WordSelect question type.
https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_wordselect

#moodle #edtech #education #quiz #quizzing #question #questiontype

Back in 2015 I took part in a webinar about my Gapfill question type. I found it amusing to listen to myself when I turned playback speed to 2X on Youtube, but it is also interesting at standard speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbmKMas5hFw

#moodle #edtech #education #gapfill