Plugin support for recent Moodle branches (3.2, 3.3, 3.4) and manuscript writing

[Former user]

Hi,

I am interested in writing a paper about the use of some Moodle plugins that are similar to the Standard Moodle Short -Answer Question type.

Your preg Moodle plugin looks very interesting.

I have begun by translating its Moodle Documentation into Spanish at https://docs.moodle.org/all/es/Tipo_de_pregunta_Preg

I intend to use your plugin in a Moodle 3.2 and a Moodle 3.4 servers with University undergraduate students studying veterinary pathology and doing departmental examinations.

But the Moodle plugins database currently lists your preg plugin as suitable only for Moodle 3.1 branch and older at https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=qtype_preg.

I intend to use at least Moodle 3.2 (official University server for summative exams), 3.4.1, and preferably Moodle 3.5 when released in May 2018 (for formative assesment in my experimental servers).

Could you please update your Moodle pllugins settings in the Moodle plugins database, so as to list newer Moodle branches (3.2, 3.3, 3.4) as supported for the preg plugin and all its associated dependencies ?

Would you be interested in a collaborative effort to write a manuscript for publishing in a Journal such as "Review of Ediucational Research" or "Internet and Higher Education" ?

My most recent published paper is;

Valero G, Cárdenas P. Formative and Summative Assessment in Veterinary Pathology and Other Courses at a Mexican Veterinary College. The Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (JVME) 2017; 44 (2): 331-337 DOI: 10.3138/jvme.1015-169R3

Yours sincerely,

German Valero, professor of Veterinary Pathology Mexican National Autonomous University [e-mail]

Moodle profile at https://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=165877

[German Valero]

Oop, I had forgotten lo login with my email account and appeared as Anonimous aabove. Sorry about that.

[Oleg Sychev]

Hi, German. Actually, lack of publishing in good sources is one of the reasons the projects are maintaining worse in last years - we have our superiors in University to consider. By conditions we are working under, we are interested in collaborative efforts resulting in publishing anywhere that is indexed in Scopus or Web Of Science Core Collection. It will improve our project standing greatly and allow us to spend more resources to work on it.

[Oleg Sychev]

It seems both journals you mentioned is indexed in Scopus. My e-mail is [e-mail], feel free to contact me on details of possible collaborative effort.

P.S. There was Javascript problem with Regular expression editing tools that it stopping release under Moodle 3.2, they changed javascript a lot there. We are working on it.

[German Valero]

The two journals I mentioned are both indexed in JCR and have a very high impact factor.

"Internet and Higher Education" is included in all indexes and is very highly rated. If they accept our manuscript, it would be very good :)

But if your University superiors value more any other Journal, and you would be happier if we send the manuscript there, please write. I am open to suggestions.

In my University in Mexico I have 0 support from the dean and my department head, but I have accesss to a very good Moodle server from a previous grant and I am responsible for Moodle quizzes departmental examinations for more than 400 students studyng veterinary pathology.

I am currently on sabbatical (no administrative, nor lecturing, nor diagnostic duties, only research leading to manuscripts writing), under the agreement that I must submit at least three manuscripts for publication in an international referenced journal within the following 10 months. I have already sent one.

My wife (P Cardenas) is my associated researcher. My sister works for Cambridge University UK and she does the manuscript proofreading in English for free.

Do you have an estimate as to when you would be able to update the Moodle plugins database for supporting Moodle branch 3.2 for the preg plugin and its dependencies ?

The first step would be for you to check your Moodle plugins (preg and all dependencies) and, if they perform OK under Moodle 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4, add those branches as supported in the Moodle plugins database. I have been doing exactly that for the Cloze editor for TinyMCE that I regularly test for all upcoming Moodle releases since Moodle 2.4 up to 3.4 (https://moodle.org/plugins/tinymce_clozeeditor) .

I am not a PHP programmer, I am a veterinary pathologist and a Moodle translator and documentation writer.

I will be very happy if we can make a nice manuscript and send it to a good Journal in a short time.