Back in 2011 Tim wrote an enlightening blog post.
This was a great source of inspiration for some of us.
I took the liberty to borrow his title because since a few hours I know what I want to build next.
I feel so stupid for not having this idea years ago, because in fact it has been floating in my mind for years (even before I learned about Moodle) but I didn't saw it was there.
First, let me remember you that in fact all my Moodle contributions have been to improve on other ideas, maintaining plugins when they were seeking for a new maintainer, fixing bugs, I don't think I ever created something brand new.
So maybe this idea also isn't brand new and somebody has already done that.
What I want to do is a Moodle website were teachers from all countries could exchange questions.
They could create an account on this website, try some questions, download these questions using Moodle xml format (this is the de facto format to retain all the questions details).
But they could also upload their own questions (using GIFT, Moodel XML, Blackboard and all the import formats available in Moodle) to share them with other teachers.
Of course Moodle will run this website and it will surely require a dedicated activity module (but the question creation activity can provide some code to create this module) and I think this is quite doable.
You can object that moodle.net has already some questions to share but what I envision would be more general
- contributed question types would be available so for instance teachers can try and download gapfill, Stack or formulas questions
- the feature to be able to try a question before deciding to download it is important the data module used on moodle.net doesn't permit that
- When people wrote about a question in the Quiz forum they could link to that question so that other can try it live.
One last thing but very important to m is that it should be entirely free !