What is a question bank?
Accessed from Course navigation > More > Question banks, a question bank allows a teacher to create, preview and edit questions in a dedicated space. The questions may be used in a Quiz activity. Within a question bank questions are organized in categories and subcategories similar to the way files are stored in folders and subfolders.
Question sharing across courses
New feature
in Moodle 5.0!
Course question banks in Moodle 5.0 enable teachers to reuse and share questions across courses.
Question banks are available in all courses where you are a teacher, enabling you to add questions from your question banks to any quiz in any of your courses on the site. Changes to a question in a question bank are reflected in all places where the question is used.
All teachers in a course can access the course questions banks and can also add questions to any quiz in any of their courses on the site.
For sites upgrading to 5.0, to enable non-editing teachers to reuse and share questions via question banks, you need to go to Site administration > Users > Define roles, edit the non-editing teacher role and allow the capabilities moodle/question:useall and moodle/question:usemine.
Note: Questions may also be created and saved in the context of a quiz. The questions in this activity-related question bank can only be used in that quiz and not in other quizzes.
Question bank filters
New feature
in Moodle 5.0!
Moodle 5.0 includes six new question bank filters - type, time modified, status and keyword searches of question name, ID number, and question text and general feedback.
Question bank columns
Teachers can rearrange, remove, resize and reset columns in a question bank to customise their own view.
Available question bank columns are set by an administrator in Site administration > Question bank plugins > Manage Question bank plugins. The order that columns appear is set in Site administration > Plugins > Question bank plugins > Column sort order.
- Actions - Editing, duplicating or previewing questions, also view the history of a particular question and see its versions.
- Status - Which questions are ready to be used in quizzes and which need checking by colleagues. Whether a question is draft or read can be specified when creating the question as well as in this column.
- Version - Refers to the various edits of that question - see History from the Actions menu for specific details.
- Comments - Allows colleagues to comment on a question, as part of the peer review/quality assurance process.
- Usage - The number of quizzes a question is used in, with a link to more specific details.
- Last used - When a student last attempted a question.
- Needs checking - Highlights a question with results suggesting a problem with it, and it should be reviewed.
- Facility index and Discriminative efficiency - See Quiz statistics report.
You can edit question titles inline along with new Last used and Last modified columns.
