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Transfer of changes to embedded questions in LM to the original question in question pool

1 Requirements

Let's say you've used a question pool for a test or survey and generated a test or survey from the questions in this pool. If you change anything in one of the questions in the test or survey, the system issues a dialogue asking the user whether s/he wants to apply these changes in the original questions in the question pool or whether you want to save a copy. This is good.
 
This behavour is unfortunately not true for embedded questions (from a pool) in ILIAS learning modules and should be streamlined.

2 Status

• Scheduled for: Not scheduled yet (will be set by Jour Fixe)
• Funding: maybe Partly funded by Advisory Council
• Maintainer: (will be set by Jour Fixe)
• Development: Implementation of the feature is done by (company, developer)
• Contract settled: Not yet

3 Additional Information

Contact the following persons if you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding:

• Information about concept: Heike Bäcker, hbaecker@uni-bonn.de
  
• Information about funding: (name, e-mail)
• Information about implementation: (name, e-mail)

4 Discussion

Alex Killing 13 Apr 2014: The presentation of questions in ILIAS learning modules and the SCORM editor does not re-use therendering of the T&A, most important reasons:

• SCORM/ILIAS LM renderering of questions must be fully client side (no server connection for showing answers)
• SCORM/ILIAS LM allows multiple questions on one page

Due to the limited features of the SCORM/LM presentation, the editing supports only a subset of the original question properties. I am currently not sure if we can guarantee valid changes in the question pools, if changes are made on the copies in learning modules. This may need a discussion with the T&A maintainer.

JF 26 May 2014: As explained by Alexander, the features and editing of the self assessment mode are limited. E.g. the T&A editor supports TinyMCE editing with HTML. These information and several settings "get lost" when being copied to the learning module. This would lead to undesired side effects when being copied back to the pool, where these informations may need to be used in the usual T&A contect (e.g. tests). Due to these reasons we currently cannot schedule this request.

5 Implementation

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