Purge question categories

Question bank plugins ::: qbank_purgecategory

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Vadim Dvorovenko

This plugin allows to delete question category with all questions and subcategories (previously local_purgequestioncategory).

Latest release: 16 months

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120 downloads

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Current versions available: 2

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This plugin extends question bank navigation node with "Purge categories" item.

Select category you want to delete and specify where to move questions, that cannot be deleted. Questions, that cannot be deleted, are questions, that are used in quizes or in history of quiz attempts. Such questions will be moved to specified categories and marked as hidden.

This can be useful if you are importing a lot of questions with many categories and want to delete all of them and reimport them.

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Plugins bot
Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 1:30 AM
Approval issue created: CONTRIB-9811
Ricardo Caiado
Sat, 1 Mar 2025, 9:53 PM
Any update plannes for version 4.5?
Bruno Muyllaert
Wed, 3 Sept 2025, 4:27 PM
Awesome plugin. Is there any way I can purge all categories? I have a few courses where all question categories need to be purged. I can't find an easy way to move all categories into one, any ideas? I could run a browserscript I guess, but maybe there's an easier way.
Thanks in advance!
Vadim Dvorovenko
Fri, 5 Sept 2025, 1:44 AM
Bruno Muyllaert. Maybe in your case best solution is to reimport course without question bank at all.
Blair F.
Fri, 5 Sept 2025, 3:04 AM
I'm with Ricardo, hoping for a 4.5 version. The 4.4 version doesn't show anything on the purge categories page.
Vadim Dvorovenko
Fri, 5 Sept 2025, 8:51 AM
Blair, Ricardo, have you tried 3.0.1 version of plugin? It was tested with 4.5. If any troubles, report via issue on github, including used moodle version, database and theme
Blair F.
Fri, 12 Sept 2025, 6:26 AM
Apologies, Vadim. I had version 2. I don't know how I made that mistake.
Christian Putzenlechner
Tue, 7 Apr 2026, 5:12 PM
Hello,
that would be a great feature for some of our lecturers. Would it be possible to add a multi-select option so that we can actually delete several empty categories with a single click?
Kind regards Christian