Quiz with limited number of questions taken randomly from question bank

Quiz with limited number of questions taken randomly from question bank

by Yuriy Petrovskiy -
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I have a question bank which consists of more then thousand questions divided to categories.

My aim is to create quiz which consisted of certain number of questions from each category. Each quiz session should be unique (different users should have different combination of questions, user should have different combinations of test in different attempts).

I had tried to create quiz from category, but unable to set number of questions asked totally nor number of questions per category. Is it possible to implement it in Moodle, or I should look for other software for this purpose?

(I use Moodle 2.5)

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In reply to Yuriy Petrovskiy

Re: Quiz with limited number of questions taken randomly from question bank

by Joshua Bragg -

This can be done in Moodle.

I assume your question bank looks something like:
Main Category 1
     Subcategory 1A
     Subcategory 1B
     Subcategory 1C

etc.

In the quiz editing interface, select the category that you want to add questions from.  Then at the bottom of the question bank block, you'll find "Add random questions from category."  Choose how many questions you'd like to add from the dropdown menu and click "Add to quiz"

If you have your question bank setup as noted earlier then you could do something like:

5 questions from Subcategory 1A
4 questions from Subcategory 1B
9 questions from Subcategory 1C

Make sure that you turn off Each Attempt Builds on Last in the quiz settings.

Since the addition of questions from the categories are random, it is possible that a particular student might get the same question twice.  However, with the large variety of questions in your bank that would be a fairly rare occurrence.

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In reply to Joshua Bragg

Re: Quiz with limited number of questions taken randomly from question bank

by Yuriy Petrovskiy -

Thank you. Everything works as a charm!

I had not understood the sidebar from the first approach.

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Re: Quiz with limited number of questions taken randomly from question bank

by praveen kumar -

Main Category 1
     Subcategory 1A
     Subcategory 1B
     Subcategory 1C

I have same categories in my  question bank  like this   .But my problem is that i want 10 question from each subcategory this is possible in random quiz  but i want show first 

Subcategory 1A  questions 10  and then

Subcategory 1B  questions 10  and then

Subcategory 1C  questions 10  

i want this sequence need for my module

is this possible?

Why because student confused with mix of all question like maths, Physics , Chemistry 

if he get in order it is easier to understand and solve

And thank you for your Valuable advise here and i am waiting for your reply 

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