Teammates: Instructor: add question to session: provide sample questions to choose from

[damithc]

Suggestion: When adding new questions to a session, we can provide an option Choose from sample questions where the user get to select from a bunch of ready-made questions.

Justification:

• Reduces the work to be done by instructors as they can create questions by modifying sample questions to match their needs.
• Serves as a way to educate users about the various questions types we have and different ways they can be used.

Things to note:

• This is a major feature. Needs to be done by someone reasonably familiar with the sessions feature.
• There is some overlap between this and the instructors help page (as both will have sample questions).

[jacoblipech]

@damithc I'd like to work on this issue.

Currently when instructors create a session, there is an option to create session using templates and there are 5 sample questions from it. Upon clicking on Choose from sample, do you want a modal to be popped up where the instructor can choose to select from the sample questions and add any of these questions to the session?

[damithc]

Upon clicking on Choose from sample, do you want a modal to be popped up where the instructor can choose to select from the sample questions and add any of these questions to the session?

Yes, that's what I had in mind. Other suggestions welcome.

[jacoblipech]

@damithc I have a question on the design of the code. When populating the template questions which are stored in a json file format, is it necessary to load them using a AJAX request similar to #5567?

I read up on AJAX and it seems like AJAX has a better performance and reduce traffic between client and server but less secure. Currently, there are only 5 sample questions so I think an AJAX request may be unnecessary but I presume more template questions will be added so an AJAX request would be better?

What is your take on this?

[damithc]

I don't think there's any need to use AJAX for loading sample questions, at least not at this stage.