Question lists

Question lists

The critical element of CAPQuiz is the question list. The question list is a collection of questions from the Moodle question bank with difficulty ratings.
Setting up a CAPQuiz activitity, the curation of the question list is always the most important and time-consuming task.

In the current implementation, there is a one-to-one correspondence between activity instances and question lists. I.e. each activity uses one question list and each question list can only be used by one activity. This means that when the question difficulties are reestimated because of student results in one activity, it has no bearing for other student cohorts using a different activity instance.

Sharing question lists between activities or courses is possible via question list templates. A question list template is a read-only copy of a question list, effectively created as a snapshot of the question list from some activity instance. When a new activity instance is created, the question list can be created by copying an existing template, instead of starting from scratch. This is the only way to reuse material within CAPQuiz.