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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:06:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: naylore
Reply-To: Online.MC_PO3.LCC-Mail@lanecc.edu
Subject: Re: question about questions
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Hi Joe-

Did you have a nice vacation?

What you're suggesting is much like what occurred to me last night and I wa=
s going to email you right away and call you off.  But I went to my class t=
o tryy it and saw your new categories.  I don't thoroughly get the idea of =
paren categories yet, but I'm sure I will after I fool with it.

Thanks, Joe.

Beth

>>> Online 08/25/06 19:35 PM >>>
Beth,=20
It sounds like you will need to take advantage of the sub-category feature =
with Moodle Quizzes.  Take a look at any quiz in your FN230 course.
http://moodle.lanecc.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=3D246

To illustrate the point, I added a new category called Units 1-3 Joe.  I th=
en "moved" your Unit 1, 2, and 3 quiz categories to this "parent" category.=
  (Of course, you can move these back to the "top" category again.)

If I wanted to do what you are doing (if I understand you correctly), I wou=
ld make 2 categories per quiz, something like "used for test" and "not used=
 for test".  I'd add those categories to another "parent" category, somethi=
ng like "quiz 1 all questions".

Of course, all questions in the "quiz 1 all questions" category could be us=
ed for your quiz.  Then, you when making your "test", you could be tell Moo=
dle to use a random 4 questions from the quiz 1 "used for test" category.  =
Make sense?

This would involve "moving" questions from category to category and some ca=
tegories to new "parent" categories.  And, it would avoid the need to expor=
t, import, and duplicate questions.

Joe



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>>> Beth Naylor 08/25/06 3:58 PM >>>
Hi Joe or Meredith-

I=D5ve been working on my first Exam for my Family Food & Nutrition class. =
 In WebCT, I would choose maybe 20 questions from a weekly Unit Quiz, and s=
et the test up so each student would get a different random selection of 4 =
of those 20 questions.  Moodle allows a random selection, but it looks to m=
e like it needs to be a random selection from ALL of the questions in a cat=
egory.

For a variety of reasons, I don=D5t test on some of the questions in a cate=
gory.  One reason is that they=D5re questions about how the class is set up=
, like a due date question.  If I was starting a new class, I would put tho=
se questions in a different category.  But that=D5s not how I have the cate=
gories set up.

It occurred to me that maybe I could export those questions (I mostly test =
on M/C questions).  Then I could upload them again into a new category.  Bu=
t I don=D5t see how to export individual questions. It seems like it will o=
nly export an entire category of questions.  And I don=D5t understand the f=
ormat they=D5re in once they=D5re exported. And the Aiken format isn=D5t on=
e of the choices.

Am I making sense?

Thanks for your help.

Beth

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