Question bank improvements for Moodle 4.1

Question bank improvements for Moodle 4.1
Project state	Development in progress
Tracker issue	MDL-72752
Discussion
Assignee	Project instigated by Thomas Korner, Luca Bösch, Tim Hunt. Implementation by Catalyst AU

This is a project to continue the issues initially planned with the Question_bank_improvements_for_Moodle_4.0#Question bank improvements for Moodle 4.0 project, and new additional requirements. The aim is to

• add some important new features, like question versioning, and making it easier to track where each question is used.
• improve how the code is organised, for example by introducing a new 'Question bank plugin' type (qbank_).
• and fix some long-standing bugs, for example the problems with question backup and restore.

Technical overview of the plans

What we are planning to do is outlined in this forum thread. That thread is quite long, with discussion of the plan, but the key posts which describe the plan are:

• Setting the scope
• Question bank will be made up of plugins
• List of the plugins that will be created initially
• Question bank will store the version history of each question
• How the question bank will track the places (quizzes) where questions are used
• Some initial UI wireframes
• Question (and following discussion) about how complicated the filtering/searching system needs to be at first

Project support

This project is proceeding thanks to the support of a number of universities and other organisations who crowd-funded the development.

Work-in-progress

In time, we will and more information here, for example links to a prototype site.

Contributors

Contributors (initiators)

• The Open University
• ETH Zurich
• BFH Bern University of Applied Sciences

Contributors (workforce)

• Catalyst Australia
• Yvonne Wolf

Overflowing funds from the SEB deeper integration project and Question bank improvements for Moodle 4.0

These institutions are credited here since they participated in the Safe Exam Browser deeper integration project. The remaining funds were allowed to be used in this project here.

• Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
• Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
• University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
• Berlin Institute of Technology (Technische Universität Berlin), Germany
• Canton of Zurich Office for Middle and vocational schools, Switzerland
• Catalyst Australia
• Dublin City University, Ireland
• ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich, Department of Medicine, Switzerland
• Hochschule Hannover - University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany ^*
• Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
• Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland ^*

^* Institutions funding in both SEB deeper integration as well as Question bank improvements for Moodle 4.0 project