Posts made by Visvanath Ratnaweera

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You don't have to look very far. That is exactly how the Random question type works. Just go ahead - start making a quiz and a question category.

The many document pages I gave elsewhere, you don't have to digest that all right now. If you start somewhere, these things will fall automatically in to their places.
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Hi Dominique

I know, there are so many different applications, one can't always see the point at first glance. For example, the application you just described:
> At the moment, to my knowledge, there is no way to obtain random sets of questions, for example, one student would get questions A-1, A-2, A-3, another student would get questions B-1, B-2, B-3, etc. 

IMHO A and B are two different quizzes, as Bret already pointed out - and they are "definite" questions, 1-2-3, not random!

I see, where the complication is:
> For example, one student gets question C and another student question B, where question C contains sub-questions C1, C2, C3, etc. and question B contains sub-questions B1, B2, B3, etc.

You want the questions to appear in "sets" - question C is in fact C1, C2 and C3. Agree, you can't get that with randomizations, the question type of C must support sub-questions. As you pointed out, there are such question types like Cloze and Formulas.

But I don't think OP is thinking of sub-questions. He just entered the quiz forest and looking for regular trees. Only thing he hasn't seen the separation of quizzes and question categories yet - and that quizzes can pick questions from question categories randomly. In short, what he is looking for is basic, it was there since the quiz revamp (somewhere in early 2.x?)

@Ashef, read carefully:

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Hi Dominique

The unexpected application of question versioning comes as a nice surprise. Your "somewhat complex questions" must be making the difference. Right now I don't have that luxury. I'm trying to make any (trivial) questions on Moodle - so every version is a triviality in duplicate! Now I know that this bloat could be cleaned one day, I'll concentrate on the work - will not raise fundamental questions!
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