Item Bank In Moodle 5

Note: at the moment, the current page refers to the branch MOODLE_500 only.

Starting from version 2.6.0 (which brings support for Moodle 5), creating an adaptive quiz activity is a 2-step process. The activity form now doesn't contain any settings related to item administration. It's basically enough to type the activity name to get it created. After the activity is created, the quiz manager is expected to navigate to the 'Item Bank' item in the secondary menu and set the item administration parameters for the activity.

Using Moodle Question Banks

Version 2.6.0 introduces an ability to link entire question banks to be used as item bank. Any shared question bank can be linked - from a custom one from a course to the system one. It is recommended though to set up a dedicated question bank for an adaptive quiz activity for easier management. However, this is not a limitation and any number of question banks can be linked if needed. The essential condition still remains: each question in the linked question banks must be properly tagged to be picked up during item administration.

Using Question Categories (upgraded sites)

When upgrading from Moodle 4 and previous plugin versions, all linked question categories remain so and questions from them will be picked up during item administration. However, new single categories cannot be linked to an adaptive quiz activity - this is a temporary limitation in version 2.6.0. Further releases will add an ability to link single question categories for even more flexibility in creating item banks if required. There's an ability to unlink a question category though, but this must be done with extreme caution, as there will be no way to link it back in the current version! As mentioned above, only an entire Moodle question bank can be linked as a new source of questions.