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Moodle: Question Sharer Role for Question Bank

Summary

Instructors may be interested in sharing Question Bank questions from one course to another, or one instructor to another. This is possible by assigning the teacher the Question Sharer role. The Question Sharer role is assigned to instructors by sending a helpdesk request. Once a n instructor hold the Question Sharer role, they will be able to save questions to the Category or to the System, and then access those questions from courses either in the same category or system wide.

This article will help to:

  1. Explain to the system admin how to give an instructor the Question Sharer role
  2. Explain to the instructor how to access questions and add folders.
System admin instructions
  1. Question Sharer role is a system wide role. To locate and add this role to users go to
  2. Site Administration
  3. Users
  4. Assign System Roles
  5. Search for desired user, add role.

Note:  the instructor must have Non Editing Teacher or Teacher role in at least one course to appear in the Search results.

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Instructors with Question Sharer role in Moodle
  1. To access the System level folder in Question bank,Go to any of the courses where you are a teacher.
  2. Go to the top navigation bar More v and on the drop down choose Question Bank.

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  3. In the next drop down, select Categories.

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  4. You may want to create a new System level folder. You can add sub folders, import or create questions in there, and then access them from any course going forward.

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Seek Further Assistance


For additional assistance please contact, Clarkson OIT Help Desk;

Email: helpdesk@clarkson.edu
Call: 315-268-HELP (x4357)

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