Embed questions filter

Filters ::: filter_embedquestion
Maintained by TimTim Hunt, at the OU (Perry building)Mahmoud Kassaei, Chris Nelson, Anupama Sarjoshi
Part of set Embed questions.
A Moodle text filter plugin that displays interactive questions from the question bank embedded in the page.
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Current versions available: 3

This filter allows questions from the question bank to be embedded anywhere that users can input HTML. This can be used in various ways. It can be a way to make learning materials more interactive. For example you may wish to embed an interactive question in a Book, or a Page, or even a Label. Or perhaps a student asks in a forum about some tricky grammar concept, and you have a question that illustrates your reply, well now you can include that question in your reply, so the student can immediately test their understanding.

It is designed to be used with the associated Atto editor plugin which makes it easier to set up the embedding.

Installing the Embedded questions progress report is also recommended. This lets staff and students track what progress has been made at all the embedded questions in a course.

Questions can only be embedded if they have an idnumber set, and where the category the question is in has an idnumber. This is for two reasons: first, to make it harder to accidentally embed questions from your end-of-course exam; and second, because this is how the filter uniquely identifies the question to show.

Note: Essay is not an interactive question. Description is neither interactive nor a question.

This plugin was created by the Open University, UK.

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Contributors

Tim
Tim Hunt (Lead maintainer)
at the OU (Perry building)
Mahmoud Kassaei: Developer
Chris Nelson: Product owner
Anupama Sarjoshi: Developer
John Beedell: Developer
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  • Heath Graham
    Thu, 12 Dec 2024, 12:52 PM
    Hey folks, great plugin! Any updates on the TinyMCE version?
  • Justyna Wachulka-Chan
    Fri, 17 Jan 2025, 4:32 PM
    Hi, great plugin! Is there any update on the Tiny MCE and the Moodle 4.5 compatibility? Apparently, it doesn't work with 4.5...
  • Tom Esson
    Tue, 11 Feb 2025, 5:24 AM
    Is there a plan to have the question grades added to the grader report?
  • Chris Nelson
    Wed, 12 Feb 2025, 1:09 AM
    Hello, just to say that we are still currently working on the TinyMCE button version (https://moodle.org/plugins/tiny_embedquestion), and there should be a filter update published in the next month or two.

    @Tom Esson: Initially we hoped that would be a feature, but last time we investigated it was major work involving rewriting various bits of Moodle Core - all things way beyond our current budget/capacity. We would be very grateful if any other individual/education centre floated a suggestion and developers, of course! smile Otherwise it remains a long-term feature for us, but that could be years away.
  • Kerry Watt
    Tue, 25 Feb 2025, 7:52 PM
    Noticed that above there's someone mentioning there's an issue with 4.5 compatibility - is this definitely the case, or is it just an issue getting the Tiny filter approved? Would be great to know as we're looking now at upgrading and use this in quite a number of places.
  • Chris Nelson
    Tue, 25 Feb 2025, 8:10 PM
    Hi Kerry - we are working on the compatibility release for the full set of related plugins, but there is also https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-9551 to resolve.
  • Przemek Kaszubski
    Sat, 29 Mar 2025, 2:06 AM
    Just stopped here after upgrading my site to Moodle 4.5 and deciding to disable Atto. The filter itself needs urgent touch-up, since there are major deprecations reported about the storage and referencing of the main class through the various files, at the very least. Cf. https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-82427 ("Split filterlib.php"), which came along with Moodle 4.5 in August 2024.

    I have voted for, and started following https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-9551 ("Plugin approval: Embedded question (tiny_embedquestion)") too, but it's the filter itself that needs to be resolved first, before we can start using / testing the code in https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-tiny_embedquestion .

    TBH, I have yet to see if the current version (latest commits 8 months ago) in https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-filter_embedquestion is a successful update over the 3-year old we can download on the official site here: 2.2 for Moodle 3.9+ (2022032900) for Moodle 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 4.0 | Released: Tuesday, 29 March 2022, 4:28 PM. And whether it meets the requirements of MDL-82427 . Looking over https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-filter_embedquestion/commits/main/ , and seeing the latest commits coming in July 2024, and not seeing MDL-82427 among the addressed issues, I have my doubts.

    Can we hope to have a version compatible with MDL-82427 any time soon ?
  • Chris Nelson
    Mon, 31 Mar 2025, 3:11 PM
    @Przemek Kaszubski While the team isn't as big as it used to be, we are working on updating all of our plugins for M4.5 and releasing them as soon as possible. Unfortunately unexpected urgent work keeps appearing and distracts us, but I am hopeful we'll be releasing in April or early May.
  • Przemek Kaszubski
    Mon, 31 Mar 2025, 6:10 PM
    Thanks, @Chris Nelson. Will keep my fingers crossed for your agenda not to be disrupted any more. And thanks for replying. My very best, Przemek.
  • ole messing
    Mon, 14 Apr 2025, 4:18 PM
    Hi.
    as i read before the current moodle version 4.5 does not support this plugin. Does this mean to edit content is not working or even a created embedded link is not woking ?
  • Chris Nelson
    Mon, 14 Apr 2025, 4:25 PM
    Hi @Ole. We've got it working fine on our custom theme M4.5 install (with TinyMCE), so we're currently just double-checking it works with Core. We'll be releasing a new version soon.
  • Bruno Mendes
    Wed, 16 Apr 2025, 2:53 AM
    Looking forward to the tiny_embedquestion plugin being released in the moodle home directory.
  • Bert van der Hooft
    Wed, 16 Apr 2025, 5:06 PM
    Any chance for a 4.5 rekease? I see potential for using it as a prompt library
  • Malteser Falke
    Thu, 24 Apr 2025, 12:57 AM
    Hello @chrisnelson , thank you for this great news and the perspective to receive your update soon. Currently there are 2 bigger german universities that ask me for a release schedule of this plugins and a date when we can fix this issue on their servers. Could you possible tell me a date, that i can give to my customers, approximately whenabouts a release is probable? Thank you VERY much!
  • Joseph Rézeau
    Thu, 24 Apr 2025, 5:23 AM
    Looking forward to a version for Moodle 5.
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