Moodle Educators – Allow students to hide the timer in Quiz for students

Moodle is the world’s most popular open source Learning Management System which is used across 240+ countries and more than 300 million users across the world. The capability to fit into any elearning environment makes Moodle one of the most widely used open source LMS around the world. Recently, one of the educators asked about the possibility of hiding the timer in quiz in Moodle forums.

According to a new forum thread shared by Philipp Imhof on Moodle community forums, he needs the capability to hide the quiz timer to avoid the stress for students. He suggested to have the options to make timer configurable with possibility to show/hide, mandatory show during last X Minutes.

Other prominent Moodle users also joined the discussion and shared their views. Matthias Giger shared a code to hide the timer for users who don’t want to see it. Rick Jerz also supported the idea of hiding the timer from accessibility point of view. Tim Hunt – the maintainer of the Moodle quiz and question bank since long time also showed his interest.

At present, the Moodle quiz timer is showing the time remaining in the quiz on the top of the quiz page. Check out this Moodle docs page to understand more about the Moodle Quiz timings and how the timings are handled. In the upcoming Moodle 4.1 version, the quiz timer will respects the time extensions made while the quiz is underway.

You can also join the forum thread discussion here to share your views.