Moodle/C2/Creating-question-categories-in-Moodle/English

Title of the script: Moodle 4.5 – Creating question categories in Moodle

Author: Nancy Varkey

Keywords: moodle, moodle lms, lms, learning management system, educational lms, open-source lms, question categories, question management, question filtering, category deletion, question organization, Moodle questions

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Slide: Title	Welcome to this Spoken Tutorial on Moodle 4.5 - Creating question categories in Moodle.
Slide: Learning Objectives	In this tutorial, we will learn: What are question categories How to use question categories
Slide: Target Audience	This tutorial is intended for teachers who want to create question categories within a Question bank in Moodle.
Slide: System Requirements This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS version 22.04 Moodle version 4.5 Firefox browser You can use any OS or web browser of your choice.	Recorded with Ubuntu, Moodle 4.5, and Firefox. Use any OS or web browser of your choice.
Slide: Prerequisites To follow this tutorial, ensure you have: Moodle 4.5 installed and Teacher access to a Moodle course For the prerequisite Moodle tutorials, please visit https://EduPyramids.org	Here are the prerequisites to learn this video.
Point to the user icon	We are logged in as teacher Nitya Jeevan.
Click on My courses → Calculus → More → Question bank	Click on My courses and Calculus. Then click on More and Question bank.
Click on ‘Turn editing on’	Ensure that editing is turned on at the top right.
Screen: Course page (logged in as teacher)	Let us begin with understanding the Question categories. We use question categories to better organize questions.
Questions dropdown → select Categories	Click the Questions dropdown to reveal the options. Select Categories.'
Edit Category page → Default for Math-101 → 7	The Edit Category page shows one category - Default for Math-101. In brackets it shows 7 which indicates the total number of questions in this category.
Click Add category → Name: MCQs with single answers	Click Add category, provide a name, and save.
Point to the new question category	The new question category appears in the list.
Create Short answer questions, TF questions Point in the list	Likewise, create 2 other question categories.
Categories dropdown → select Questions	Click the Categories dropdown and select Questions.'
Select Calc-MCQ-001, Calc-MCQ-003, Calc-MCQ-006	In the list of questions, select the 3 MCQs.
Click on With selected and Move to	At the bottom of the list, click on With selected and Move to.'
Open the dropdown → select MCQs with a single answer → Move to	Open the dropdown, select MCQs with a single answer and click Move to.'
Point there (MCQs with a single answer) when recording	We see the 3 MCQs in the filtered list of MCQs with a single answer question category.
Click Type or select dropdown → select Default for Math-101 → click Apply filters	Click Type or select dropdown, select Default for Math-101 and click Apply filters. Notice there are 4 questions now, instead of 7.
Select Calc-ShortAnswer-005 and Calc-ShortAnswer-007 and move to Short answer questions No recording for this	Repeat the same steps to move corresponding questions to Short answer question category.'
Click Type or select dropdown → select Top for Calculus → check Also show questions from subcategories → click Apply filters Point to the list	Click Type or select dropdown, select Top for Calculus. Check Also show questions from subcategories and click Apply filters. Now all questions from all the subcategories are visible.
	Question categories will help in choosing random questions when creating a quiz.
Click on Create a new question → MCQ is default selection → click on Add → click Category dropdown → scroll down → click Cancel	After adding question categories, when we click on Create a new question, we get the option to select the category. But for now, scroll down and click Cancel.'
Questions dropdown → select Categories → TF questions → Delete	Click the Questions dropdown and select Categories.' To delete a question category, click the Actions menu and Delete. Read the warning message and click Delete.'
	So, that’s the quick explanation of question categories in the Question bank in Moodle.
Slide: Summary To summarise, we learnt: What question categories are How to use question categories to better organise the Question bank	Here is the summary of this tutorial.
Slide: Assignment As an assignment, add a new question category named “Numerical Questions”.	We encourage you to try out this assignment.
Slide: Acknowledgement Domain Expert: Nancy Varkey	This tutorial is brought to you by EduPyramids Educational Service, SINE, IIT Bombay. Thank you for watching!

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