Talk:Changing the Moodle Question Engine
Lesson and Moodle Question engine
After reading this and only using 1.5 Quiz (30-50 exams for 20-40 students, 3 sessions a year for 3 years), it seems that Lesson and Quiz have really overlapped more than I expected. I will have to look at the "new" adaptive functions of Quiz.
I don't think that adaptive functions should be stored with the question, that seems to me to an individual quiz or lesson function. For example, one teacher wants the question to be adaptive, an other teacher does not. One quiz the teacher wants one condition, and a different one in a second quiz. Same issue happens in Lesson with the adaptive jumps. IMO, the core question is the same.
I have to add that creating the question is really the hard part. A techie can program the adaptive steps as per instructions and even type in a question. But creating a good question is gold and beyond the reach of a techie. I am that techie :-)
In 1.5, I can copy/import a quiz into a new course. I believe this actually creates a new question category. This is different than creating a quiz, then selecting the categories to pull questions from. I notice in the former the question id changes and remains the same in the latter.
It is not possible in Lesson 1.5 or 1.9 to import or select parts of another lesson. It is copy the whole Lesson or nothing. There is no page bank (nice idea). It is possible to import a question file (say GIFT) with one or more questions at any point in the lesson. The teacher has to set the adaptive jumps for the question. I think that works just fine.
Will the development of the Moodle Question engine permit RSS feeds or someone developing a question of the day block? I didn't see that in the big picture.
And thank you so much for posting in the Lesson Forum ! --Chris collman 07:31, 22 January 2009 (CST)
- Embedding questions in other places - actually, all you need to do is get the permissions right, then embed the contents of the preview pop-up window in an iframe. Actually for that to be really effective, we should clean up the preview pop-up to have fewer unnecessary controls. Finally, to make it easy to do, we should make a text filter.
- Question of the day block would already be perfectly possible to write. If anyone had the time and inclination.
- Question RSS feeds. I don't even want to begin thinking about how the permissions checks would works. It would be possible in principle, but would be a separate project.
