Development:Quiz UI redesign scenarios - Organizing questions
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Unless exams are very simple, teachers often have a natural set of categories to put questions in, from course curriculum or from the actual material of the course. This can be regarded as metadata of actual questions.
A teacher may or may not want to enter question metadata (such as categories) into the application, depending on:
- their confidence (experience) with Moodle or computers in general
- the amount of time available: in a situation where a teacher only has the questions on paper or in some other application and they need to get the exam to the student in 15 minutes
- what they perceive feasible in the application's user interface.
It is also possible that the teacher imports the data from another application, and in this case the metadata may come with the questions; the questions will be in categories in the application after importing.
Jack
- designed for question bank; covers entire book
Fred
- carefully crafted, can't use again
Mary
- designed to test the student's knowledge base on a certain subject
Based on the themes that come from course curriculum, Mary has organized her questions in categories. Under most themes she has subcategories for different difficulty levels and for most a given exam, she usually has about 60% of easier and 40% of mode difficult questions. Since she has a lot (i.e. dozens ... thousands) of questions for each course, she would find it useful to categorize questions based on different criterias – that is, to be capable of tagging questions, as well as searching for particular questions based on their content, tags or other properties.
When she was beginner, she was confused since she didn't see categories logic (katso john isnerin teksti vanhasta threadista
Fred
Created a category for each course and actual question categories for them.
