Especial:Badtitle/NS101:Overview of the Moodle question engine

Tim -

Two areas that I keep in the back of mind are outcomes and tags. Can we tag certain questions as being related to a particular objective? Generally speaking, an activity provides a way for teacher to grade whether a student has demonstrated a particular outcome. I think it might be nice if the question engine could do some of outcome assessment automatically. For example, student able to multiple single digit numbers.

I am curious if you think that the question engine should connect specific questions to a particular outcome. I am thinking of how a student's correctly answering a particular quiz question could be used to demonstrate an outcome.

To the contrary, a good argument can be made about putting too much wait on a particular question. Instead of the question determining the outcome, it would be a series of questions whereby the student's performance on a quiz of questions determines the outcome score thus maintaining the current correlation between outcomes and a particular activity.

In any case, as I looked at the proposal for the new question engine outcomes and tags were a couple of areas where I might anticipate some questions. The question of tagging (courses, activities, questions, resources, etc.) is really a separate issue that I think best dealt with on its own. The more I think about outcomes, I think there is good justification for not trying to associate them with individual questions.

Peace - Anthony