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Embed questions filter
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 a Text Editor plugin.
This is the associated Atto editor plugin. However the Atto version is only supported for M4.5.
This is the associated TinyMCE editor plugin (which won't be visible until it is approved). That will be for M4.5/M5.0+
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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Once we upgrade to M4.3 ourselves, we may be in a position to further improve alerts that users are "looking at an earlier question version" part-way through a embedded question (assuming it is possible), but that will be a few months away.
The display of embedded quiz questions in content depends on the screensize of the mobile device (smartphone or tablet?), exactly where you are embedding it, and the theme being used.
Hope that helps
@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!
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 ?