Please consider the idea of allowing the instructor to select specific question-types from a question bank. At times when we as faculty may not want to T/F question-types administered as part of the selected question group.
Thanks for sharing this idea, @vancej . As it moves forward for voting, I would encourage instructors to use their own custom tags when creating questions and adding them to an item bank, so they can search by tag for those types when they're adding questions to an assessment from an item bank (How do I manage item banks in Quizzes.Next? ).
I think I may be reading something into this, but I'm guessing this has to do with creating questions that draw randomly from an item bank. As such, it would a different feature than what is possible in the guide you reference.
Yes and no. My suggestion has to do with when you import a question bank from a publisher there is no way to know what the question-types are listed in the bank. Thus, if the bank is deployed on whatever assessment, student A can potentially be given an essay-type question while student B is given a T/F- type on the same objective. Hence, this creates a potential assessment inconsistency that student A can challenge and/or exploit. Right now, we as faculty have create multiple questions banks that are question-type focused.
This brings to mind the idea of "difficulty". I see no way, besides tags, to indicate difficulty of questions. Even for essay questions, there can be various levels of difficulty and it would be nice to both a) keep track of them and b) select for them in pulling random questions from a set. A quick search didn't pull up any ideas on this topic.
Difficulty is one aspect. My concern is excluding difficulty altogether. My concern is just the question-types. I had concerned filtering based on question difficulty, but that should be an option as well.
stefaniesanders, given the above discussion, would you like to see the concept of tracking question difficulty and using difficulty to select questions for random sets (or in quizzes in general) as a new idea, or incorporated into an existing idea?
@dgrilley , thank you for asking. After reading the discussion it sounds like tracking question difficulty would need to be a separate request, as presumably what constitutes the "difficulty" of a particular item would need to be subjectively applied or would need to come from historical data (or from another measurement I haven't yet considered). In any case, it would be distinct from this request.
