Quiz Question Tags Mass Editing and Bulk Management
Problem Statement
Currently, there is no efficient way to:
- Import quiz questions with their associated tags
- Mass-edit tags across multiple quiz questions
- Programmatically manage quiz content via API
- Filter questions by language for multilingual courses
This limitation creates a significant workflow bottleneck for educators and instructional designers who manage large question banks, as each question and tag must be manually edited one at a time.
Suggested Solution
Implement functionality that would allow users to:
- Enhanced QTI Import/Export:
- Support tag preservation in QTI exports
- Allow QTI imports to include and recognize tag information
- Provide documentation on the XML structure required for tag inclusion
- Bulk Editing Interface:
- Create a multi-select option for quiz questions
- Allow batch operations (add/remove/modify tags) on selected questions
- Include filtering capabilities to target specific subsets of questions
- Implement language filters for managing multilingual question banks
- API Access for Quiz Management:
- Develop API endpoints for quiz and question bank operations
- Enable programmatic creation, editing, and tagging of questions
- Support batch operations through API calls
Use Cases
- Instructors migrating content between systems who need to maintain organizational structure
- Departments standardizing tagging conventions across multiple courses
- Educational technologists managing question banks for multiple faculty members
- Course designers implementing revised taxonomies or classification systems
- Faculty teaching multilingual courses who need to manage and filter questions by language
Benefits
- Significant time savings for educators
- Improved organization of assessment content
- Enhanced ability to categorize and retrieve specific question types
- Reduced friction when migrating or updating course materials
- Better support for multilingual education with language-specific question filtering
I appreciate your consideration of this suggestion, as it would greatly improve workflow efficiency for those of us who manage substantial question banks.