"Send general feedback to the CAS" tool does not generate new question version

[jonaslache]

Hello everyone,

When creating STACK questions, I got used to the fact that all changes can be undone due to the question versioning feature introduced in Moodle 4. However, this does not apply to the ‘Send general feedback to the CAS’ tool, which can be accessed via the Question Dashboard: If you make changes to the question in this tool and click on ‘Save Back to question’, no new version of the question is created, i.e. the changes made in this way (possibly by mistake, because you actually wanted to click on the other button ‘Send to the CAS’) cannot be undone. Is it possible to improve the tool in this respect?

Thanks and best regards,
Jonas

[sangwinc]

@jonaslache that was by design, rather than neglect. But perhaps not expected. We could change this, but typically I go through many versions of the worked solution and like it this way round!

[jonaslache]

@sangwinc Thanks forn your reply, I actually didn't expect this behaviour to be intentional. I find it a bit counter-intuitive (in fact, exactly what I wrote happened to me: I accidentally clicked on the ‘’ button and then got frustrated that I couldn't undo the changes). But maybe that's just my opinion :-)

[anst-i]

I agree with @jonaslache that overwriting a previous question version is highly unexpected and counter-intuitive. The versioning system of the Moodle question bank is great and in my opinion STACK should support it. Going through many versions is a normal process in question authoring. Sometimes we do end up with version >100, and I don't see any downside of this.

[timhunt]

Just noting that maybe one day this Moodle core improvement will be made: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-73701