Use the categories better

[ghost]

I'd love to make more use out of the categories. To make it clear, what is the problem I give you an Example: We have different law's, which the student has to read and directly after reading the law he has to add 3 new questions. Currently I have only three Options:

• make a new studenquiz for every law. Drawback: The student is not able to have mixed quiz where he has to switch between the different laws (and has to prove, that he can remember, which one it was)
• make a big studentquiz for all laws mixed. Drawback: The student has to read all the laws before he can start training with the quiz - he can not train the specific law
• make several quizzes and transfer manually the questions form the single quizzes to the mixed quiz. Drawback: Work, students "lose" part of their points because they dont get the points for creating questions transferred to the mixed quiz.

possible Solution:

• have different links to the same studenquiz. Depending on which link they choose, they can only access one specific category and the subcategories of that one.
• make it possible for the students to filter by category themselves
• optional: use different scoring systems for each used category (beacause it gets harder to answer and find the solution the more categories you include)

how it could look in use. Student opens the course and has to read the "law 1". When read, the link to the subcategory "law 1" appears. He can now add 3 new questions. When finished, he can move to "law 2". Same procedure. When finished with all single laws (i.e. "law 20") he gets the link, which allows him to acces the main category with all the subcategories. He can now choose, whenever he comes back, if he wants to train all the laws at once (having to remember, which one has which information) or only one specific law. Because it's a lot harder if all the categories are mixed, he gets 5 instead of 3 points for correct answering in the main category.

I hope it is understandable, what I'd like to have. Thanks a lot!

[oucnelson]

Hi Dirk,

I had a foggy memory that we added subcategory support awhile ago. Checking our test server, which is running the current (pre-Moodle 4.0) release (v4.7.0, 2022052400), I am able to create subcategories for the StudentQuiz in the course question bank, and then using our test student account, I can select the subcategory when creating a question. Creating a question in each using the test student account showed both in the table, so I can confirm that subcategory support appears to work.

We actually have a more basic solution to this at The Open University UK: we just use the question tags feature to denote the specific subject, though this might not be appropriate for your specific use case.

Does that help in the short-temr?

You've suggested some additional refinements that we'll take onboard, though I can't promise when we'd get to them.

[oucnelson]

Thinking about it more, we do support groups in StudentQuiz these days too - is there a way for students to choose their subject area, to get them into the right group for the StudentQuiz?

[oucnelson]

To clarify, we would probably look at adding a "filter by category" (if there are subcategories) option first. Afraid I can't give a timescale at the moment though. Then we'd look at further improvements.