Moodle Teachers – Use CodeRunner plugin to set programming questions in Moodle Quiz

Moodle Quiz is one of the most flexible and most customizable quiz engine. It allows you to customize the Online Quiz for your learners based on your requirements with plethora of customization possibilities. In this post, we will see how you can set programming questions in Moodle quiz.

The CodeRunner Question type plugin allows you to add programming questions in your Moodle Quiz. The plugins allows you to create questions in which the student answer is code in some programming language, which is graded by running it.

CodeRunner has been in use at the University of Canterbury for over seven years, running millions of student quiz question submissions in Python, C , JavaScript, PHP, Octave and Matlab. CodeRunner currently supports Python2 (considered obsolescent), Python3, C, C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript (NodeJS), Octave and Matlab. The architecture allows easy extension to other languages.

You can download the CodeRunner Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here. To install & run it properly, you need to have a separate Jobe installation (read here for more detailed instructions).

The plugin can help you create exams in different programming languages and evaluate the student’s answer easily. CodeRunner support a wide variety of question types and can easily be extended to support others. A CodeRunner question type is defined by a question prototype, which specifies run time parameters like the execution language and sandbox and also the template that define how a test program is built from the question’s test-cases plus the student’s submission.

What are the other useful Moodle plugins you are using to create programming quiz questions? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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