The Question bank allows a teacher to create, preview and edit questions in a database and use them in the Quiz (or selected ones in a Lesson) activity. Questions are organized in categories and subcategories similar to the way files are stored in folders and subfolders. These categories may be limited to being used on the site, course or quiz level.

The question bank is always accessed via a specific Moodle course. It can only be accessed by people having at least the teacher role in the course in question.

Once logged in to your Moodle course, there are two ways to access the question bank. (Quiz activity)

Either via course navigation on the main course page by clicking on "More" > "Question bank"

or via activity navigation on the quiz page by clicking on "Question bank"

Note: In order to add question to a quiz, you need to navigate to your quiz and add questions from there. It is not possible to add questions to a quiz starting from the question bank.

 

Moodle 4.1 has the ability to edit question titles inline along with new Last used and Last modified columns.

•  Status column you can see which questions are ready to be used in quizzes and which need checking by colleagues. Whether a question is draft or read can be specified when creating the question as well as in this column.
•  Version refers to the various edits of that question - see History from the Actions menu for specific details.
• Comments allows colleagues to comment on a question, as part of the peer review/Quality assurance process.
• Usage show the number of quizzes a question is used in, with a link to more specific details.
• Last used shows when a student last attempted a question.
•  Needs checking highlights a question whose results suggest there is a problem with it, and it should be reviewed.
•  For Facility index and Discriminative efficiency, see Quiz statistics report.
• From the Actions column you can perform certain actions such as editing, duplicating or previewing questions. You can also view the history of a particular question and see its versions.

The columns you see in the Question bank are separate Moodle plugins. What you see in the Question bank depends on what the administrator has enabled or disabled from Site administration > Question bank plugins > Manage Question bank plugins. They can also rearrange the order the columns appear from Site administration > Plugins > Question bank plugins > Column sort order.

Here is some information about some of the columns. If you don't see a certain column in your course Question bank, check your administrator has not disabled it.

 

1. Navigate to the Question Bank page and make sure you selected Questions from the drop down menu on top.
2. From the Select a category drop-down menu, select a category you want to add a question to.
3. The page will change to show the questions already in that category
4. Select the question type you want to create from the Create new question drop-down menu.
5. Fill in the form for the question type you are creating. Each question type has its own form and has its own options.
6. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the form.

 

Sharing and Managing Question banks

Be default, teachers can manage only the questions in the context of the courses they are in. You can set up a role to allow teachers to share and manager questions on a larger scale.

You can also use this role to create a special system-wide "Question bank Manager" instead of giving admin level or site-wide Manager access to a person managing the Questions.

See Also:

• Quiz activity
• How to let teachers share questions between courses
• How to minimize the question bank when doing backup/restore