Timeout between attempts. Allow admin to set time that the quiz cannot be taken after each attempt. [#3064047]

I wanted to add the option for a timeout between attempts. It was very tricky to add this feature with hooks in a custom module. I added it directly to the quiz module and created a patch. You may consider bringing it into the next release?

You would need to add something to it, though, to add the 'timeout' column to the 'quiz_node_properties' table in the database. I just enabled the module, post patch, on a database that never had quiz installed before on it. I would also suggest adding a column for a 'next_attempt' timestamp, or something similar, to make the function _quiz_get_next_allowed_attempt() in quiz.module more performant.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Peace

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Comment #1

25 June 2019 at 18:21

genellann created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

djdevin

Philadelphia

CreditAttribution: djdevin at Cadmium commented 25 June 2019 at 18:39

Take a look at quiz.api.php

In that file there is an example of implementing your own access handler using hook_quiz_access() - you can use this to add your own functionality to restrict quiz taking based on whatever criteria you need.

If you wanted to add this as feature it needs some work - there's no tests and you have a lot of redundant code for handling the time limit. Take a look at how Quiz does it by using timeperiod. Also, you should use the access system that Quiz already has instead of trying to do it in a nonstandard way.