From version 3.8.7 we are introducing a powerful feature to elaborate your “optional answer explanation / feedback” that can be given to each question. Just click on “Elaborate answer feedback” checkbox which is right under the text box. You will be presented two option – 1. to show different feedback if the question is answered correctly or incorrectly and 2. to show different explanation for every single selected answer. Let me explain by examples and screenshots:

Elaborate Feedback Based on Correct / Incorrect Answer:

Let’s suppose you have a question “What is the color of the sky” and want to elaborate in different ways depending on the user answer. This will be a single-selection question which has one correct and one wrong answer:

In this case just use the {{{split}}} tag to split between both. The text which is before the split text will be shown always when the answer is correct. It doesn’t matter how you have arranged your answers and how many correct or incorrect choices you have given to the user.

The text given below (after) the {{{split}}} tag will be shown always when the answer is wrong. That’s it. You can very well skip one of the sides to have answer feedback displayed only when the question is correctly or wrongly answered.

Elaborate Feedback Based on Specific User Answer:

Sometimes you may want to display different message for every possible selection that user makes. Let’s again use the question “What is the color of the sky” but this time we will add more options. And we’ll make it multiple-select question:

In this case use the {{{split}} tag to break between your feedbacks/explanations. The order of explanations must match the order of the answers you have given. It doesn’t matter whether you’ll randomize the questions when showing them to the user. Just make them match when you create the question. See the screenshot above (click on it to see it larger) and notice how the different texts match the answers. First answer is Blue and the first text is about Blue. Then it’s Green and the text is about green. And so on.

See how it will look when the quiz is submitted:

Finally, it’s here. Version 1.7 of the Play Plugin for Watu PRO is just uploaded.

Open Badges Support

The most important new feature is Mozilla Open Badges support. How does it work? Really simple:

• Check “Issue as Mozilla Open Badge” checkbox when you add or edit your badge.
• Make sure you fill your Issuer organization settings (the link is given right under the checkbox
• Enter badge graphic URL. It must be a .png graphic. If you want to upload a file, just use the Add Media button right above the large box for “Badge Content or Graphic” which is above the checkbox. Then copy the URL from the uploaded graphic
• Enter badge criteria URL. It’s required by open badge specification. This can be a page that explains when the badge is assigned.
• That’s it. If you are sending mail when user receives a badge (this setting is available in the Manage Badges page), you will be able to use the new {{open-badges-url}} to give a link for accepting the badge.
• Another new feature – user overview page – will let your users add their badges from their overview page. Read more about it below.

User Overview Page

This is a new page that shows up in the user dashboard under “My Exams” menu. However it is optional, so you need to enable it from the WatuPRO Play main page. At the bottom there is a checkbox to activate user overview page.

We have added a basic default design for this page, but you are free to design it yourself using the available shortcodes.

User Rewards Shortcode

Speaking about new shortcodes, in 1.7 we have added [watuproplay-userrewards] shortcode to display the current user redeemed rewards. When used as [watuproplay-userrewards x]  the shortcode can show rewards of any specified user. Insead of x enter the user ID.

If you have other desired features for the Play plugin, please share in the comments!

Here is the new release of Watu Pro:

• Numbered paginator is available on tests that are displayed one question per page
• Stripe integration for paymens (Intelligence module)
• Deactivating a question
• Mass delete questions
• Option to allow maximum number selections on multiple-select questions
• Added payment records page for paid exams along with ability to manually add or remove payments
• %%EMAIL%% and %%DATE%% variables in the final screen
• %%MAX-POINTS%% variable to show the maximum points the user could collect on this quiz
• Indexed the user answers tables for faster queries
• Shortcodes are available for the reporting module pages as well (Reporting module)
• The exam action buttons are now in table to avoid formatting issues with some themes
• Fixed bug – missing question properties when copying an exam
• Code cleanup and removing some obsolete files

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