Hello,
Re: 'New Quizzes: Question Bank Migration on Course Copy' Feature
We've been doing a little research and testing on this feature to gauge when to release it to staff and what resources will be required to assist understanding.
The testing brought up something that I hadn't appreciated with Classic Quizzes use of Question Banks. There are 2 ways to use questions from Questions Banks: via the 'Find questions' button or via the 'New question group’ button. What I hadn't appreciated is that using 'Find questions' is a point in time question transfer from the Question Bank i.e. not dynamic - the link to the Question Bank is lost. Using the 'New question group' is dynamic i.e. the link to the Question Bank remains. We may have courses where the 'Find questions' button was used and the Lecturers may believe that the questions will change dynamically if the corresponding question in the Question Bank is changed.
While we ponder on the next steps, I've put together a bit of draft text related to the change. Your thoughts are welcome on this.
Summary
Instructors can migrate:
- Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes, and
- Classic Quiz Question Banks to New Quiz Item Banks
by using the ‘Convert content to New Quizzes’ checkbox on the ‘Course Copy’ and ‘Import Course Content’ pages.
Key Points
1. When importing course content from another course:
- It is advised that the ‘Select specific content’ option is used instead of the ‘All content’ option, because selecting ‘All content’ will bring in other undesired information: Note the following content types will be imported: Course Settings, Syllabus Body, Modules, Assignments, Quizzes, Question Banks, Discussion Topics, Pages, Announcements, Rubrics, Files, and Calendar Events.
- Using the ‘Select Content’ button, you must select all the Quizzes and Question banks.
2. After the copy or import is complete, all Question Banks converted to Item Banks appear on the Item Banks page of the new course, filtered under ‘This Course’.
3. Classic Quizzes with Question Bank(s) questions migrate differently according to how the original Question Bank(s) questions were drawn into the Classic Quiz:
- Question Bank questions drawn in using the ‘Find questions’ button are a point in time copy from the Question Bank(s). Any updates to the question(s) in the Question Bank(s) DO NOT transfer to the Classic Quiz. Therefore, the New Quiz is created WITHOUT linkage to an Item Bank(s) which is migrated from the related Question Bank(s). So, any migrated Item Bank(s) would need to be manually edited if the dynamic linkage to an Item Bank(s) needs to be created.
- Question Bank questions drawn in by adding a ‘question group’ (i.e. using the ‘New question group’ button) are dynamically linked to the Question Bank(s). Any updates to the questions in the Question Bank(s) DO transfer to the Classic Quiz. Therefore, the New Quiz is created WITH linkage to an Item Bank(s) which is migrated from the related Question Bank(s).
