Ask the admin
In this section, you'll find guidance on what to ask your administrator if you need to allow teachers to access questions in question banks outside of their Moodle course, turn on support for glossary auto-linking, and have completion tracking and/or conditional activities enabled in order to present your Moodle course.
Allowing teachers access to questions outside of their courses
Your admin needs to give you the role of teacher at the course category level. Your admin will need to:
Return to the Settings block and under Site administration click on Users | Permissions | Define roles.
Press the Add a new role button.
Create a new role called Shared question user, which can be assigned at the Category context:
Scroll down the list of capabilities and Allow:
moodle/question:add
moodle/question:useall
moodle/question:usemine
moodle/question:editall
moodle/question:editmine
moodle/question:viewall
moodle/question:viewmine
moodle/question:moveall
moodle/question:movemine
moodle/question:managecategory...