Moodle Administrators – Set Automatic Quiz Archives for Compliance

Moodle is world’s most popular open source learning management system in the world with more than 400 million users around the globe. The vast collection of official Moodle Plugins allows the Moodle Site Administrators to extend the functionality to meet their learning goals. In this post we will see Quiz Archiver Moodle Plugin and how you can use it.

The Quiz Archiver Moodle Plugin provides option to archive quiz attempts as PDF and HTML files. It can include all elements of the test like GeoGebra applets, MathJAX formulas, STACK plots etc.

As an Admin you might be worried about the additional load which this backup process might be adding on the server resources. However, Quiz archives are created by an external quiz archive worker service to remove load from Moodle and to eliminate the need to install a large number of software dependencies on the webserver.

According to the plugin author, the major key features of the Quiz Archiver plugin are:

• Archiving of quiz attempts as PDF and HTML files
• Support for file submissions / attachments (e.g., essay files)
• Quiz attempt reports are accessible completely independent of Moodle, hereby ensuring long-term readability
• Customization of generated PDF and HTML reports
  • Allows creation of reduced reports, e.g., without example solutions, for handing out to students during inspection
• Support for complex content and question types, including Drag and Drop, MathJax formulas, STACK plots, and other question / content types that require JavaScript processing
• Quiz attempt reports are fully text-searchable, including mathematical formulas
• Moodle backups (.mbz) of both the quiz and the whole course are supported
• Generation of checksums for every file within the archive and the archive itself
• Cryptographic signing of archives and their creation date using the Time-Stamp Protocol (TSP)
• Integration as Moodle quiz report
• Support for custom quiz archive permissions / capabilities
• Fully asynchronous archive creation to reduce load on Moodle Server
• Data compression and vector based MathJax formulas to preserve disk space
• Technical separation of Moodle and archive worker service
• Data-minimising and security driven design

You can download the Quiz Archiver plugin from the official Moodle plugins repository here. Once installed, you can use the plugin from Quiz Administration > Results > Quiz Archiver. Select the desired options and start the archive job by clicking the Archive Quiz button.

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