Testing needs to be done for the following question types: Multiple choice (qtype_multichoice) short answer (qtype_shortanswer) Drag and drop into text (qtype_ddwtos) Select missing words (qtype_gapselect) For testing you need a Moodle course and at least two users who can create questions. Create a Moodle course Create two user (eg. editingteacher), teacher 1and teacher2. Enrol teacher1 and teacher2 in the your course login as teacher1 in to this course Go to the question bank Press on "Create a new question ..." button Choose a Multiple choice question and press the "Add" button While filling the question fields, make a note of the original default value of ‘Default mark’, ‘One or multiple answers?’, ‘Shuffle the choices?’, ‘Number the choices?’, ‘Show standard instructions’ fields, then change the values of these fields and remember them Press on "Create a new question ..." button again Choose a Multiple choice question and press the "Add" button (.. another Multiple choice) *Verify" that the values of the fields you have changed in previous Multiple choice question appear on the form as defaults. In other words, when user create a new question and modify some default setting, they are saved as user preference, so that the next time when a new question of the same type is created by the same user, the default values are taken from the user_preferences table for this user. I.e, teacher1 gets their preference as defaults for a new Multiple choice question, whereas teacher2 will get original default values . The testing can be done in the same way for: qtype_shortanswer with 'Default mark' and 'Case sensitivity' fields; qtype_ddwtos with 'Default mark' and 'Shuffle' fields; qtype_gapselect with 'Default mark' and 'Shuffle' fields;