Quiz Categories and Permissions to System Category

Quiz Categories and Permissions to System Category

by Aaron Johnson -
Number of replies: 2
I can't for the life of me figure this one out mixed



We would like our professors to be able to all access all of the quiz banks/categories. Basically this is equal to giving them permissions to the (0)System level of quiz categories.
I can't seem to find this is Permissions anywhere.
Any thoughts?


(Rationale behind this is that several professors teach the same class and share test banks. So we would rather not copy the question bank for every new course and have changes spread out through 20 different copies. We'd like all exam/quiz revisions for a course to have a common place. We have tried to put them in categories. The problem here is that all of the say mathematics courses then show up in the professors "my courses" and all the other profs show up in the participants list of a given course. Both would drive our profs crazy.) Thanks
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In reply to Aaron Johnson

Re: Quiz Categories and Permissions to System Category

by Teresa Gibbison -
Hi Aaron
This is a common question which can be done but not easily so generally 'No'... See these posts for more in-depth answers:
Re: How can I use a quiz in another course and How to deal with shared questions?
Basically it comes down to context permissions - only teachers at the level of the questions can use them. If you put them at site level (0) you need to assign your professors as front page teachers (not something I would do!).
I hope this helps
Cheers
Teresa

In reply to Teresa Gibbison

Re: Quiz Categories and Permissions to System Category

by Don Hinkelman -
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Hi Teresa and Aaron,

Interesting point about front page teachers--never thought about that. Why would you not normally assign teachers to that?

Our solution to the quiz sharing problem (and all of our questions have media files of some sort) is to:
  • Use only the System Level category for quiz questions
  • Frequently discuss categories and naming
  • Put all media files into the Site Files
  • Frequently discuss how we arrange folders there
  • Made a Question Creator role for all teachers giving permisions to view and edit all questions (not sure if this was really necessary)
Finally, we made the Sharing Cart to make simple click duplication and moving of quizzes across courses.