How to control quiz question selection?

How to control quiz question selection?

by Dawid Bartkowiak -
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Hello,

I am new to Moodle and this community. First of all thank you to all Moodle developers for this software. 

I would like to change quiz behavior and I am not sure if it is possible. What I need is the ability to choose only some questions from the question bank based on defaultgrade and tags. I have thousands of questions in the bank and I need to select just 32 for each quiz attempt. I am a javascript and c# developer with some knowledge of php. From the docs I understand that I should write an activity or local plugin. What would be the best approach to achieve what I want?  

I am using MOODLE_37_STABLE

Thank you for any help. 

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Re: How to control quiz question selection?

by Rick Jerz -
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Moodle can randomly pick 32 questions, if that is what you desire. Moodle's quiz engine also supports tags, but I haven't used that feature much, yet.
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Re: How to control quiz question selection?

by Dawid Bartkowiak -
Thank you for your answer. To be more specific I need to select and combine:
- questions with tag 'basic': 10 with grade 3, 6 with grade 2, 4 with grade 1
- questions with tag 'advanced': 6 with grade 3, 4 with grade 2, 2 with grade 1
32 question in total with max score of 74 and minimum score to pass the quiz of 68.

Is there an easy way of achieving this without writing complex modules?
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Re: How to control quiz question selection?

by Rick Jerz -
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If it was me, I would arrange these questions into logical groups. Then you could do what you wish.

Here is the beginning of the categories, as an example.
  1. Basic 3 point questions
  2. Basic 2 point questions
  3. Basic 1 point questions
  4. Advanced 3 point questions
  5. Advanced 2 point questions
  6. Advanced 1 point questions

With this grouping, you could then randomly pick 10 from group 1, 6 from group 2, etc.  No special coding required.

You need to decide if you want the final 32 questions jumbled, or kept together.  Moodle can handle either scenario.

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Odp: Re: How to control quiz question selection?

by Dawid Bartkowiak -
Thank you again. This will work for me uśmiech I have another problem but I will add a new post about it. 
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Re: Odp: Re: How to control quiz question selection?

by Rick Jerz -
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Cool, Dawid.  cool

Once you get your quiz questions organized, I think you will really like Moodle's quiz features.  I have used other LMS quiz engines, and Moodle's is far ahead.
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