Quiz service

Quizzes are one type of assessment content a user can consume while being part of a course. The quiz service stores all quizzes and also takes care of any creation, modification and deletion of quizzes. This service can also evaluate and provide feedback for a user’s progress for each quiz.

A more technical description of the flashcard service and its GraphQL endpoints can be found in our Github Repository README.

Quiz types

Currently, the quiz service provides support for 6 different types of quizzes:

Quiz Type	Description
Multiple Choice Question	In a Multiple Choice Quiz, users must answer a set of questions. Each question presents multiple answers, with one or more being correct. Users are required to select all correct answers.
Cloze Question	The Cloze Quiz prompts users to fill in the blanks within a given text, testing their understanding of the content. For all blanks, a set of answers is presented for the user to choose from. In this answer set answers can be included that do not fit in any of the blanks.
Self-Assessment Question	The Self-Assessment Quiz presents users with questions that require free-text responses. Users can later compare their answers with the correct solutions and track if their response was correct.
Association-Question	In an Association Question, users are tasked with establishing associations between different elements. This type of quiz challenges users to match items from two or more columns, identifying correct pairings.
Exact-Answer-Question	The Exact Answer Question presents users with questions that require precise, specific responses. Users need to provide answers that precisely match predefined correct solutions.
Numeric-Question	In a numeric Question, users must respond with numerical values. This quiz type is used for questions that demand numeric answers, such as mathematical calculations or numerical data input.

Tracking a user’s progress

Next to handling quizzes, the quiz service can also track the progress of individual users for quizzes. Unlike other other services handling different kinds of content (such as the flashcard service) this service does not save any user progress in this service. Instead it evaluates logged progress by checking result data against constraints defined in the quiz, such as a minimum of correct answers. The results of this evaluation (including Meta data such as number of hints used in the quiz) are then passed on to the content service that are used for the reward score calculation in the reward service). For more information on user progress tracking in our application we recommend reading our documentation on user progress.