See also the most current demo at http://www.pilpi.net/software/moodle_quiz_ui/demo/
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Screenshots of current state:

Openmind is approaching and I will take part via a Youtube video, since it is hard to participate otherwise from another country. I will post the link to the video here as soon as it is public.

The usability report of Moodle Quiz UI’s direction in the future has not gotten any discussion. I only mentioned it in one forum posting though so that is understandable. I will have to promote it further once I have time again, to really get the community thinking about the issues that came up in the usability testing, which were, after all, rather primitive.

This software did benefit from this summer’s work, but it is far from good in terms of usability yet.

Thus, the question ordering/paging tab is well underway and will, if all goes well, be finished by next week.

The feedback from the Moodle community about the demo published last week has been very positive, though I have gotten some very interesting development ideas, too. So that is something to be glad about! :)

• Question bank layout (major CSS rework) finished
• Status bar of quiz etc added
• Setting grades for questions finished
• Fixed several small bugs

Published the demo version of the new UI yesterday (link: no user id? login as guest). Today I tested it with IE and the issues seemed less catastrofic than I expected. YUI javascript stuff does not work in IE yet, though.

• Adding single questions directly to quiz
• Adding random questions directly to quiz (both AJAX-style/lightbox, and without javascript)
• Single questions CSS layout in quiz
• Properly resizing the quiz contents (column width) when showing/hiding question bank
• Taking javascript out of the PHP file in a separate javascript file
• Separate ‘add description’ button

Started:

• CSS layout for random questions

In short, the quiz display is very near complete. Next up: question bank window display. Also considering some negative margins to make the document flow order more sensible. I have not tested anythin in Ye Mighty Internet Exploder yet. I think of that moment in slight feelings of angst. Something amusing about browsers and users

Contacted some usability test persons I recruited earlier. No reply yet.

There were a couple of issues with the current quiz/questions. The most pressing one is that the Edit/Add Questions page seems to absolutely require a question category as a parameter. It would fit the workflow much better if a category could be unspecified once entering the question editing page with a new question. Then, the user would have to think about categories at least as much as to select the default category from the list. The changes required to do this seemed too dramatic so they should probably be discussed with Tim Hunt/the community. For now, we are preselecting the default category for the user.

Some highlights: To get quiz work as designed, I added a new GET parameter to the question editing page, which allows specifying the name of a GET parameter to return a newly created question’s id to the page in returnurl. Also, the quiz editing page got a new get parameter, addonpage, for specifying the page on which to add a new question.

Last Saturday, I published the final spec with screenshots of the tested UI. Though everybody seems to be on holiday, I got some comments about it, too. Implementation is going on in the tracker, which is the main means of following development at this point, as well as the development section of the project portal for the bleeding edge developments.

Also the prototype testing report and details have been online for about a week now.

Tomorrow I will try to code together the first bits of actual code, in order to put them into the tracker, in order to gain Moodle CVS access, in order to start seriously developing :).