Enhanced quiz management

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Overview

The purpose of this feature is to allow coaches more flexibility in customizing quizzes by swapping out questions or editing questions to create the quiz they want.

What is this feature? What problem is it solving?

Coaches want:

• To remove questions that are not currently relevant from a quiz
• To remove duplicates when the same question appears in different exercises
• To choose specific questions to put into the quiz
• To create quizzes larger than 50 questions to help practice for examinations
• To add section level text within a quiz to provide a persistent prompt for different questions

Why are we doing this now?

It sets the foundation for offline content creation work by releasing a feature that is long-requested.

What feedback, requests, insights and/or concerns are shaping this feature? Include specific comments from partners, clearinghouse, or teammates as relevant.

Coaches want to be able to remove questions that are not currently relevant from a quiz:

Removing questions that haven't been taught yet - some questions are higher than the student's level and they don't have the prerequisite knowledge

Randomize a single question instead of the entire question list if the teacher is happy with the others

It would be helpful if they could choose to remove or replace individual questions within a Quiz during the creation stage, rather than having to get a full new set of questions.

Some workarounds with 0.12
1 teacher noted that they would just move the "hard questions" to the back of the quiz

Coaches want to be able to remove duplicates when the same question appears in different exercises:

When creating an exam, questions appear to be duplicates because they have the same structure and very similar labels in the left-hand list.

Coaches want to be able to choose specific questions to put into the quiz:

It would be helpful if they could choose to remove or replace individual questions within a Quiz during the creation stage, rather than having to get a full new set of questions.

Reported by Azeez Gupta:
When creating an exam, I don’t seem to be able to choose the exact questions I want to pick from the exercises - it’s choosing questions at random.
Is that a bug or is that how it’s supposed to happen?

Suppose there are 5 questions in the exam.
A teacher likes 4 questions, but does not like the 5th one.
In this case, it is very beneficial to the teacher or exam creator to change just the 5th question.

Coaches want to create longer quizzes to help practice for real examinations:

When undertaking the examinations, the standard number of questions for the 8-4-4 system is 50 questions with
'multiple choice' per subject, but there are subjects like Social studies that require a learner to undertake 90 to 120
questions in one examination.
This is not workable on Kolibri since only a maximum of 50 questions is allowed.

We are trying to deploy a quiz that is 120 questions and all questions should follow the same sequence as created
on Studio.
How do you we deploy such a quiz on Kolibri putting in mind the maximum we can deploy is 50?

Coaches want to create persistent prompts across multiple questions:

Quite often teachers try to do several related questions that require the same image or text.
Currently they can't link them and have to add the same text once again to all the set of related questions.

Coaches understand current options for ordering and remaking the quiz:

Separately but related, teachers did find it easy to understand what "fixed" "randomized" and "choose a different set of questions" all did and meant.

Contributors

• Technical lead: @nucleogenesis
• Technical planning support: @thanksameeelian
• Individual contributors: TBD
• Designer: @tomiwaoLE

Goals

• Who is this feature for? Outline user stories below, but also mention if there is a specific partner and/or deployment
• How do we know this feature is successful?

User Stories or Requirements

• A coach can create any number of quiz sections, each having up to 50 questions, and select resources to add to it from a side panel
• After selecting resources, a coach can preview, edit, and sort questions
• A coach can replace questions using the side panel manual or automatic replacement
• A coach can add a new section to the quiz from within the question preview page, using a side panel
• A learner sees sections and section descriptions on their quizzes

Target Quarter and Due date

Release end of Q3 2023

Product Issues

• A coach can create any number of quiz sections
• A coach can preview, edit, and sort questions
• A coach can replace questions
• A coach can add a new section to the quiz from within the question preview page
• A learner sees sections and section descriptions on their quizzes
  

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All product issues are finalized and addressed, this can be considered closed.