Matching question - custom weight of each matching pair / choice / option

Matching question - custom weight of each matching pair / choice / option

by Martin Vojtela -
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Will it in future be possible to specify custom weights for each matching pair in a matching question, to reflect each item's importance / difficulty?

Example: A matching question with 

  • (30% of grade) if Apremise - Aresponse  is correctly matched
  • (50% of grade) if Bpremise - Bresponse  is correctly matched
  • (20% of grade) if Cpremise - Cresponse  is correctly matched

If it is planned, would it reflect into other similar types using matching pairs? i.e. Drag and drop matching Drag and drop onto image...

Many thanks in advance and apologies if this was already answered, the forums are a little too large and I wasn't able to identify a similar topic.

And great work on the quiz engine overall!! Very impressive.

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In reply to Martin Vojtela

Re: Matching question - custom weight of each matching pair / choice / option

by Tim Hunt -
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My guess would be:

This is quite unlikely in Moodle core. For almost everyone it would be unnecssary complexity.

On the other hand, this is exactly why Moodle is designed to work with lots of plugins. If you really want this, you could build (or get someone to build for you) a custom question type that does do this. Any new question type could reuse a lot of code from the existing question types.