Reordering questions in question bank.
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Checked forums, sorry if this is already there. I have lots (800) questions in the question bank. How can I rearrange them?
Re: Reordering questions in question bank.
I think your choices are to do it slowly, and with great pain, via the Moodle interface, or to be brave and risk screwing everything up by directly editing the ids in the database. (You probably need to change the values in the mdl_questsion.cateogry column for the questions you want to move.)
Re: Reordering questions in question bank.
If the questions are simple MC or TF questions, without images or equations, a possible way to do it could be to export them in XML format to
a file, and then edit the file either in a text editor or in an XML editor. An XML editor like XMLSpy might allow you move questions and categories around quite easily. Although still tedious, it would probably be much quicker than using the web interface.
You could also consider converting the XML questions into Word format via www.moodle2word.net, and then re-organising them using Word. The format generated in Word uses the Heading 1 style for categories, and Heading 2 styles for question names.
You can then use Outline mode in Word to quickly move questions around, sort them by name, etc.
I have found this a very efficient way to sort large numbers of questions around.
This is only useful if you can be sure the questions will convert back into XML again though, so you should check this out first.
a file, and then edit the file either in a text editor or in an XML editor. An XML editor like XMLSpy might allow you move questions and categories around quite easily. Although still tedious, it would probably be much quicker than using the web interface.
You could also consider converting the XML questions into Word format via www.moodle2word.net, and then re-organising them using Word. The format generated in Word uses the Heading 1 style for categories, and Heading 2 styles for question names.
You can then use Outline mode in Word to quickly move questions around, sort them by name, etc.
I have found this a very efficient way to sort large numbers of questions around.
This is only useful if you can be sure the questions will convert back into XML again though, so you should check this out first.
Re: Reordering questions in question bank.
All my questions are stored in Excel and if I need to do some major reorganization I simply reorganize them in the Excel and upload to the question bank. 