Quiz

there are some enlightening conversations here and one is reproduced below from my other post



"Actually this is the best way of doing this also because you can then do the following:

1. lets say you have a folder called www.yoursite.com/images
2. put ALL your images there in various folders. eg. test1, physics1, chemistry1 etc
3. Create your tests offline in textpad/notepad. A question would look like this:
   1. which is the correct diagram for water's behaviour with change in temp?<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/images/physics1/q1.jpg"> { ~A ~B ~C ~D =E}

This way you can create a whole quiz offline, successfully inserting the images also.

Security: since 'images' is a public folder, the students(who are pretty smart) may right click on images during quiz and locate the url of pictures. so do the following:
1. server: set server settings not to allow raw listing of directory contents(this will prevent people from publicly accessing the directory contents)
2. always show quiz in secure window where right click is disabled
3. enable hot-link protection on your site(so that other sites cannot use your images)
This will provide significant security, though nothing is fool proof."

Now your other teachers also cannot access this images folder because you had created this folder by ftp or c-panel. But if your question is a published one, then a 'smart' teacher can import it into one of his quiz without alteration, or worse, locate the url of images and 'leak' it out. So keeping the category unpublished will give max security as only you will know the exact urls of those images.(if you wanna share them, share them by all means)
Moreover, each teacher can also be given such folders to upload their images to be used in questions.e.g. www.yoursite.com/images/teacher1........now the problem will be uploading them if you do not trust them enough to allow them ftp access. This can be solved in one more way, the way discovery's website does it.
tell them to signup for a free site kind of thing like http://teacher1.freesite.com and they can upload their images there in a folder and provide links to it in their question.
Once again- your images are safe
other teachers' images are safe
cross usage can be prevented
student 'leak' can be prevented
hmmpphhhhh...........

Bill >  It seems to me that somewhere inside Moodle I should be able to have all my images and link to them.

One should always keep in mind that Moodle sites can range from a one-man run site (one Admin who is also the only teacher) with maybe 10 "students" to a site catering for hundreds of teachers and tens of thousands of students. In the last situation, it is not feasible nor desirable for all of the images available to the various courses should be made available to all courses/teachers/students.

However, a feature I have called for ever since I started using Moodle a couple of years ago is a "teacher repository" where, as a teacher, I could upload all the material I need to use and re-use in several of my courses. So far, this feature does not exist- at least not in standard distributions of Moodle. If I need to use image01.jpg or audio file audio.mp3 in two or more of my courses, I have to upload one copy of each of those files for each of my courses. This situation is a waste of storage space and of time and energy. There have been numerous posts on the Moodle forums calling for this "teacher repository" feature, all in vain so far.

Joseph

We teach about 80 programs, each of which has anywhere from 10-30 courses.  I determined early on that we would have a metacourse for the program itself, and then all the courses for that program would be child courses of the metacourse.  This means that any student in any of the courses would automatically become a student of the metacourse with access to all of it's resources.

We use metacourses in many different ways, but by far the two most popular are announcements and files.  Teachers enable RSS on one of the forums that only they post to and then put a remote RSS feed block on each of their courses.  Now, they only have to make an announcement once and it's reflected in all their courses.

The same idea works for their files.  They create a file structure on the metacourse and then simply place links to the files wherever they need them.

It's a bit bulky and cumbersome at first, but most of the teachers have gotten used to working with two browsers open and cutting and pasting the links.  They like it because they don't have to upload multiple copies of the same file, and I like it because it saves on disk space and the resources aren't just out there for the whole world to see. 

They still can't share their tests, and it will break anything that's not placed back into the same metacourse, but it works if you can accept the limitations. 

Thanks,
Matt