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A Moodle admin tool that changes the settings of some or all quizzes in a course in one go: review options, grade to pass (in points or as a percentage of each quiz's maximum grade), maximum grade, completion conditions, and the grade, question behaviour, layout and timing, and display settings.

Requirements

Moodle 5.2 or later

Installation

Copy the plugin directory into <moodleroot>/public/admin/tool/quizbulkedit/
Visit Site administration → Notifications to run the upgrade

How it works

From a course's administration menu (More → Bulk edit quizzes), a teacher ticks the quizzes to change in a table that shows each quiz's maximum grade, grade to pass, attempts allowed and completion tracking. A Filter by name box shows only the quizzes whose name contains the typed text; the select-all box then ticks or unticks the shown quizzes only, and hidden quizzes keep their ticks.

Below the table, every setting has its own Change box. Only settings with a ticked Change box are changed; every other setting keeps each quiz's own value and is not written at all. So it is possible to change, say, only one review options row and leave the maximum grades alone.

Preview shows for each selected quiz the settings that would change, with the current and the new value, and any reason a quiz cannot be changed (for example a grade to pass above the maximum grade, or a locked grade item). Nothing is saved until Apply changes is pressed. Changing a setting or the selection after the preview disables Apply changes until the next preview, and the server refuses an apply when the settings, the selection or the quizzes changed since the preview. Each quiz is changed in its own database transaction: a quiz that fails is rolled back and reported, and the others are still changed.

Settings

Section	Settings
Grade	Maximum grade, Grade to pass (points or % of each quiz's maximum grade), Attempts allowed, Grading method
Review options	Each of the 8 rows (The attempt, Whether correct, Maximum marks, Marks, Specific feedback, General feedback, Right answer, Overall feedback), each with its 4 times
Question behaviour	Shuffle within questions, How questions behave, Allow redo within an attempt
Layout and timing	Navigation method, Time limit, When time expires, Submission grace period
Display and restrictions	Decimal places in grades, Decimal places in marks for questions, Show the user's picture, Show blocks during quiz attempts, Enforced delays between attempts, Browser security
Completion	Completion tracking, Require view, Require grade, Require passing grade, Passing grade or all attempts completed, Minimum attempts (shown only when completion is enabled for the site and the course)

The values offered are the same as in the quiz settings form, and the same rules apply. Open, close and due dates, the password, the network address restriction and overall feedback are not offered.

What happens when a setting changes, as in core:

Maximum grade: existing grades and overall feedback boundaries are rescaled (the preview warns when a quiz has attempts).
Grading method: final grades are recalculated.
Time limit / grace period: open attempts get the new deadline.
Completion: changing completion settings of a quiz that students have completion data for deletes and recalculates that data; Apply changes then needs a confirmation.

Saved configurations and admin presets

Save configuration (below the settings) stores the form's settings and the ticked quizzes under a name, for the course. Load puts them back into the form; Delete removes one after a confirmation. Saving and loading change no quiz: a loaded configuration still goes through Preview and Apply changes.
Admin presets: in Site administration > Plugins > Admin tools > Quiz bulk edit presets, an administrator creates named presets of settings with the same form. Every course's page lists them under Admin presets with a Load button (presets hold settings only; the teacher ticks the quizzes).
A course's configurations are deleted with the course.

Permissions

The page needs tool/quizbulkedit:manage in the course (editing teachers and managers by default; RISK_DATALOSS, because it rescales grades and resets completion). Only quizzes on which the user also has moodle/course:manageactivities and mod/quiz:manage are listed and changed.

Privacy

The plugin stores no personal data (saved configurations hold quiz settings and quiz ids, with no user reference) and implements Moodle's privacy null_provider.

License

GNU GPL v3 or later — https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

adamjenkins / moodle-tool_quizbulkedit

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