Hi,
on Moodle 3.8+ Question Bank -> Questions, to preview a question one needs to click Edit -> Preview under Actions column but before 3.8+ the preview button was placed next to the question itself so there was no need to click Edit button. Also the previewed question is not opened on a new popup window.
This new one is very annoying cause reviewing lots of questions requires to loose a lot of time.
Is there any setting to go back to the previous scenario?
Thanks in advanced.
What you are seeing is the progressive change to a consistent user interface, which has been happening for a while. I think that I made a feature request when the grade book made this change. Actually, I think Tim Hunt made a post not to long ago letting us know about this question bank change.
Anyway, you can make a feature request in Moodle Tracker to go back to the old method (but I don't think it will do any good.) I am not part of Moodle HQ, I am just another user giving you some thoughts.
As a suggestion about how to preview a bunch of questions, consider creating a quiz and putting these questions into it. Then, review the quiz.
As Ruck says this was an intentional change, and I posted about it in the Quiz forum before making it, to see if there was a strong objection and there wasn't, although there was some debate about the extra click required.
I have mixed feeling about this, and also the change which means that the preview now opens in a new tab rather than a pop-up window. The extra click is a down-side, but there there positives.
One thing that used to be wrong with the old UI was that if you used the standard short-cut to open the preview in a new tab in the background (CTRL + click) then that did not work. Instead, the only option was to right-click and choose 'Open in new tab' - so that is two clicks per question. With the new UI, you can just keep CTRL held down, and choose preview from each menu - also two clicks per question, but less fiddly, because they are all clicks wiht the left mouse button. So, my own experience is that for "reviewing lots of questions" - which I do quite a lot when I have to find an example question that is suitable for testing the code I am working on, is that the new UI is slightly better.
I also like the fact that the menu makes the UI less cryptic, and means that we can afford to add a few extra options there (like Export as XML).
I like this idea of "hovering" the question and having a preview appear.
I also thought about what else we might someday like as additional features from the drop-down "Edit" menu. One idea would be to have a "Where Used" choice that would show every quiz where this question is being used. And maybe a choice "Statistics for this Question." And maybe "Move to" and "Copy to"? And possibly "Show Duplicates." I am just brainstorming a little.
I do like the "Export as XML" feature, and this made me wonder if there should also be an "Import XML" choice so that a person could easily import these XML questions right into the displayed question category.
