The embed questions filter

This Moodle text filter that displays questions from the question bank embedded wherever you can input HTML.

Here is a more detailed description of the functionality.

Acknowledgements

This plugin was created by the Open University, UK. http://www.open.ac.uk/

Installation and set-up

This plugin works best if you also install the associated Atto editor plugin.

Install from the plugins database

Install from the Moodle plugins database

• https://moodle.org/plugins/filter_embedquestion.
• https://moodle.org/plugins/atto_embedquestion.

Install using git

Or you can install using git. Type this commands in the root of your Moodle install

git clone https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-filter_embedquestion.git filter/embedquestion/
git clone https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-atto_embedquestion.git lib/editor/atto/plugins/embedquestion/
echo '/filter/embedquestion/' >> .git/info/exclude
echo '/lib/editor/atto/plugins/embedquestion/' >> .git/info/exclude

Then run the moodle update process Site administration > Notifications

Setup

The filter needs to be enabled. Go to Site administration -> Plugins -> Filters -> Manage filters and Enable the Embed questions filter.

You probably don't need to change the options on Site administration -> Plugins -> Filters -> Embed questions, but you can if necessary.

The Atto editor need to be configured to show the new button. Go to Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Atto HTML editor > Atto toolbar settings and in the Toolbar config field, find the line that starts 'insert =', and add 'embedquestion' to the list.