How To Import A Quiz From Word Document To Moodle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2015
- This video covers how to import a quiz from a word document to a Moodle
PREPARING MOODLE TO RECEIVE A QUIZ DOCUMENT
STEPS:
1. Log into your course and create a category for your quiz.
2. Create a quiz activity in Moodle. At this point the quiz will not have any questions.
FORMATTING THE QUESTIONS IN WORD DOCUMENT CORRECTLY
Steps:
1. Remove any headers and footers from your document.
2. Remove question numbers.
3. Add the word "ANSWER:" below each quest and type the letter corresponding to the correct answer. See examples below:
If you are feeling sleepy in class you may rest take a quick nap during lectures.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: B
Tardy students will lose __ points.
A. 5
B. 10
C. 20
D. 15
ANSWER: B
4. As the document as a plain text file.
IMPORTING QUIZ INTO MOODLE
Steps:
1. Go to your course in Moodle.
2. Go to Quiz Administration.
3. Click on Question bank - Import.
4. Select Aiken Format.
5. Click on General and select the category that you created for your quiz.
6. Upload your plain text file.
7. Go back to the Quiz Administration
8. Add questions from the back to your quiz
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Thanks kindly for your easy to follow video - it worked like a charm. I have been using Moodle for years but did not know one could do this. Very very helpful and saved me a lot of time!
This is one of the best MOODLE walk throughs on TH-cam. God bless you.
Thank you for your feedback Khaled 👍
Megan
Actually I liked it and found it soothing as I am new to moodle and it stresses me out. So maybe just include it but at a lower volume so that your voice stands out over it. Thanks for the great tutorial. This will be so useful in my teaching.
I have been using this tool called GETMARKED Digitaliser. It allows me to create a Moodle XML file from my Word document quiz directly. The amazing thing about the tool is that i don't have to conform to any specific format. Despite the fact that the Word document quiz i prepared is for classroom use, it is still able to identify all the questions and answers inside it.
Really really helpful honestly. Saved a lot of time from my end without having to create questions one by one.
Thank you so much. I really liked the music and the content was very helpful. Figured out what I was doing wrong while importing. Appreciate your time.
You're very welcome Jasmine. I know how frustrating it can be when things don't work correctly and you need to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to fix them.
Wow. Thats amazing. Works like a charm. Lot of headaches got rid. Thank you very much. God bless you.
Thank you for the blessings 🙏. Much appreciated!
OMG! Thanks alot for this video. I love how clearly and peacefully you taught me to create my quiz. Thanks
I appreciate your feedback. Thank you very much Arjumand.
Thank you for sharing this video, knowing how to do this will save me heaps of time! Very much appreciate finding this one!
I'm so happy to hear that +Laura Hesketh. Thank you for the feedback
Thank you for the explanation. You don't need to type the questions one-by-one.
Excellent, keep up the good work ! Focused, easy to understand and follow and in my case immediately applicable. Waiting for the next one. Thank you.
+kellyjohna Thank you for the feedback. If there's something specific that you'd like to me to demonstrate, please let me know in a comment.
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I share some useful tips that have worked for me.
thank you, that saved me a lot of time. Just for others that have the same struggle as me.. i couldnt find the administration tap, i had to tap on the "add a block" and find the administration button to add it. and i have to do that to each lesson i have, or each quiz.
Excellent!
First time I got to understand a Moodle step,thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful. Sooo many steps. One very important thing missed: you can't have anything in the text of the files besides letters and regular punctuation. Quotation marks and parenthesis, for example, completely throw Moodle off with the import. As soon as it sees quotation marks, for example, it just starts deleting. So you have to remove all of these. Once you have the quiz or test imported, you can add these back in; it's not that Moodle can't display them; it can't import them. Another step and a pretty big hassle. The import works best with very straightforward quizzes and tests.
Thank you for your feedback.
Great Video! Exactly what i need! Thank you!
What an amazing video! Thank you so much. You saved tons of my time. Thanks again
Thank you for your feedback.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Excellent job. This will save me much time!
+Kristi Bowker I'm so happy to hear that :) Thank you for the feedback.
"Kristi Bowker: The same thing happened to me. It says I have 10 questions but only 7 of the questions had text."
Kristi, it's probably a formatting issue in your text file. If you can you upload the text file with the questions to your Google Drive and share a link I'd be happy to look at it. Or you can submit a reply below with your text questions and I'll generate a text file and test it out on Moodle.
I can't believe I didn't know about this. Awesome, sir.
This was awesome thank you for the instruction and guidance.
SUPER helpful and very easy to follow. thanks
This video was extremely helpful it was on point. Thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the clear tutorial!
+Tee Ji Ken thank you. I appreciate that.
Thanks, very helpful.
I'll appreciate a video for the creation of quiz for like Organic Chemistry and Biology where chemical equations and diagrams are required.
EXCELLENT VIDEO! Just finished uploading my quiz with your assistance.
After Moodle grades quiz is there a link to grading system whereby it imports the grades?
Thank you so much for this very help ful tutorial. Best regards from ITB - Indonesia
I'm thrilled this worked out for you. Thanks for letting me know. :)
Thanks, very well explained. I will try to implement this
Great! I was using third party software to create exams and then importing into Moodle. This is much faster.
Thrilled to hear that Kierrin. Thank you for watching the video and your feedback.
Thank you so much ! This is was very helpful
Thanks for straight forward and easy way.
You are very welcome! Thank you for the feedback.
Thank you so much. I really liked the music and the content was very helpful
Great information thanks for your knowledge
+mamie s schrean thank you!
Thank you so much. This was very helpful.
This tutorial is really helpful. Thank you so much! :)
Thanks Paul 👍
Thank you very much. You are a great teacher
Thank you very much, Teddy Bear
Interesting! Can you use this format for Reading & Listening activities, too?
Really simple to follow.... Thanks 😄
Thank you so much for this explanation. It was very simple and direct. Can you please upload a video on how to upload a test on Moodle please?
Excellent explanation to make it convincing to anybody.
Thank you
Thank you for a great, easy to follow tutorial. I have already played around with it and it works great! My question is: Is there a way using this same format and not having to code in GIFT format to make a question that has a picture included. For example, I want to insert a picture of an ECG strip with a multiple choice question of "Identify this rhythm"? Thanks in advance!!
The short answer is no. You can't add images with GIFT or Aiken formats. There are some advanced Moodle user (developer-level) who claim to have been able to import images using XML format, which frankly speaking isn't easy. There is some documentation to explain how to do it, but the process requires the use of an XML converter software. Unfortunately, it is in Russian. I haven't found a current version in English.
Regarding your other questions, if you don't want to use GIFT, you can use Aiken, which is simplier. However, Aiken is appropriate for simple multiple choice and true/false type questions. GIFT requires a bit more coding, but it allows you greater flexibility in importing other questions formats (e.g., Multiple choice, Multiple choice with multiple right answers, True-false, Short answer, Matching, Missing word, Numerical questions, Essay, and Description).
This is really helpful.... it literally saved me....thanks tons🤗
You're welcome 😊
Great tutorial on importing quiz from a WORD document.
Thank you Ranjana!
Excellent video, many thanks (others have mentioned the music...not a big fan!). One thing I noticed is your screen shots of Moodle are somewhat different than mine, and it did cause some navigation fun to try to keep up with you. The other nuance is how the Word doc has to be formatted to get it to save properly...for me, a hard return between everything! It did work beautifully, though! I am very appreciative!
The screenshots might be attributed to a different Moodle version. Thank you for your feedback :)
Thank you. I learn from your video.
The explanation is great! Thank you! However, the music background is incredibly distracting from your explanation!
Glad it was helpful. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks, a great time saver.
+John Simpson I'm glad it works for you. Thanks for the feedback.
Very clearly explained. Many thanks.
So nice of you
Thank you very much.It's a very helpful vid.
Glad to hear it Kerma!
Wonderful tutorial! thanks a lot!
Thank you Isabel 👍🏽
Thank you very much. This is quite informative.
Thank you I finally was able to create my quiz in Moodle. Could you provide a video on how to use ExamView to create an Exam in Moodle?
very useful thank you I was able to follow through and upload my quiz without too much stress
Thank you for the feedback. If you're interested in more Moodle tutorials, I've got two separate playlists below that you might want to check out. Peace and blessings 🙏🏽
Moodle for Beginners:
th-cam.com/play/PLWzB8K6gM-7soF_bVYW9JOH8fuyVdDfo5.html
Moodle Tutorials:
th-cam.com/play/PLWzB8K6gM-7sQ5TWUMHKSsNMslfWEkuyU.html
Great explanation. Can this also be done for a quiz with mixed questions eg. Multiple Choice, True or False and Short answers? Thank you
This will save a huge amount of time. Thank you! I am wondering how to import a diagram and ask questions regarding the diagram.
It's doable, but not quick. You'll need d different file format and a lot of unique codes. The easiest and most efficient was that I found was to upload all the questions (text only) and then upload the images and diagrams and insert them from Moodle or a cloud drive.
Thanks a lot. Very clearly explained
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much. I have a problem in importing a topic to 6 classes. When i import the activities go under the wrong topic. How can I make sure the activity goes under the topic that i want?
Thank YOU! It worked!
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much. Very helpful to us.
Glad it was helpful!
Please how do I upload my quiz which is in mathematics and having mathematical signs/symbols? Since the present video tutorial isn't working.
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. I'm also interested in other type of questions that can be imported to a Moodle Quiz.
Thank you +Anastasia Casimatis. I have a Moodle Playlist that shows you how to import other tpes of question this linke th-cam.com/play/PLWzB8K6gM-7sQ5TWUMHKSsNMslfWEkuyU.html
If you have a particular types of question that you'd like imported that's not covered in my videos, please let me. The only questions that are not easily imported into Moodle are equation type questions.
Thank you so much!
+Anastasia Casimatis you're very welcome
Many thanks, this video was greatly helpful
You're welcome!
Great lesson thanks for your knowledge
Thank you!
Great, easy to follow and very informative video. Thank you.
You are welcome!
Thanks very much, it worked in the end although I had a problem with some symbols in the questions which would not import into Moodle properly. Once they were removed it worked fine.
+Delon Commosioung Thank you for checking out my video. Yes, symbols as well as images and tables within questions DO NOT transfer over smoothly when importing a Word Docx to Moodle. I find it best to transfer basic multiple choice questions and then manually copy and paste or type questions into Moodle that contain specific symbols, tables, etc...
Thank you soo much for this.
This was great! THANK YOU! I do have a question. When I uploaded it to the moodle the "Question Name" was there with the question, but there is no question text. Also not all of my answers imported. I checked the document and they are there. Do you have any suggestions of what can be done to fix that issue?
+My Own Business Institute (MOBI) It's sounds like the formatting issue in Notepad if you followed the example. If you can you upload the text file with the questions to your Google Drive and share a link I'd be happy to look at it.
I am seeking the same help. The text file produced does not load into Moodle!
Thanks for this video. Very helpful
Excellent,
Excellent Workshop.
+Shirley Curtis Thank you!
Thank you. Excellent job
It was my pleasure Salem!
Very informative and detailed. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the tutorial but you should specify that you can't use any special characters when creating the text file (for example, accents in other languages). Took me a while to figure out why my questions were not submitted.
Thanks for that. We need to do this for online exams to take the place of traditional exams due to Coronavirus.
Best of luck!
Thank you so much .This would be a great help for me.
You are welcome!
very useful, makes a big difference.
Thank you fo this, it's so helpfull
Helpful topic for me as i was struggling hard to do the same. Thank you sir
You are welcome
Great information...Thank you very much sir, very helpful...
Thank you Ravi! Much appreciated!
Thanx. Can we import from Questions to Questions?
Thanks so much. the video met my day
Thank you for the feedback. If you're interested in more Moodle tutorials, I've got two separate playlists below that you might want to check out. Peace and blessings 🙏🏽
Moodle for Beginners:
th-cam.com/play/PLWzB8K6gM-7soF_bVYW9JOH8fuyVdDfo5.html
Moodle Tutorials:
th-cam.com/play/PLWzB8K6gM-7sQ5TWUMHKSsNMslfWEkuyU.html
Thanks for this tutorial! I am just starting to Moodle and have a couple questions: 1) Is it possible to have a bank of questions for a given course that randomly selects a number of questions to be shown to the user for a quiz? (Thus, if the user has to retake the quiz (s)he wouldn't see the exact same questions.) 2) Can quizzes include activity-based questions? (e.g., user sees multiple rows of boxes and has to select boxes that are NOT correct answers.)
Welcome to the wonderful world of Moodle Krystal! The answer to questions 1 is kind of. You can set up question bank with say 20 questions and then create quiz with 10 questions. The second can be randomized, but there's a possibility that a question that showed up on the first attempt will make an appearance the second time around. So if you really!!! Did not want any questions to reappear, you'd need to create two separate quizzes.
With regards to your second question, I'm not sure what you have in mind, but it sounds like the "Drag and drop" question types might achieve the same effect that I think you are looking for. Start with the "Drag and drop into text" see if that works for you.
Very helpful technical tutorial Dr Al-Malood. I'm curious to see if this works with other question formats, such as true-false, matching and short answer. As others have previously mentioned, I too found the music a bit distracting.
+Haggisbreath I love the name :) I agree about the music. I wish I could remove it, but alas, TH-cam doesn't provide that feature at this time. For other question formats, you will want to use the GIFT format, not Aiken. GIFT requires a bit more coding, but it allows you greater flexibility in importing other questions formats (e.g., Multiple choice, Multiple choice with multiple right answers, True-false, Short answer, Matching, Missing word, Numerical questions, Essay, and Description). Here are a few videos that where I use GIFT format to import questions. If there's a specific format that you'd like me to cover, please leave me another comment. If you can include sample questions I'll try to use them in my response video.
How To Import A Quiz from Word To Moodle With Multiple Correct Answers th-cam.com/video/EeWoQREG-ls/w-d-xo.html
How To Import Short Answer Questions into Moodle th-cam.com/video/nUwrNZ3OfUE/w-d-xo.html
Import Moodle Questions With Question Name and Feedback th-cam.com/video/gWFpAy_7HMo/w-d-xo.html
I don't know but the MCQs i try to upload in format you have explained results to 0 questions imported. Can you please help.
Thanks for your help. I do have one question. I often have 1-2 paragraph scenarios followed by 5-7 questions based on the scenarios. Do you have any suggestions how to link the scenarios to the set of 5-7 questions so they load together from the test bank?
+Ron Zimmerman Presbyterian College excellent question. There are two ways that I could suggest. The first option is to duplicate the same scenario 5-7 times and simply change the question on each one. So you'd have 5-7 quiz questions with the identical scenario, but a different question on each one. This is probably the easiest and cleanest way to do it. However, if you really want to create one large question with multiple questions as you described, you'll need to use a question type in Moodle called "Embedded answers (Cloze)". That's not a typo, they're called "cloze" questions. The two issues with cloze questions is that they are a bit complicated to create on Moodle. You can create them on your desktop on Notepad or on a cloze generating software, which takes the coding difficulty out, but it is a slow process and you can only create and import one question at a time.
Let me know if you need help with either of those options. I plan on creating a cloze question import video tutorial in the future.
Thanks. Very useful.
What will be useful is an exemple for each Type of question (Howard to do). Thank you
Great suggestion!
Thanks for your video. It helped me a lot. I would want to ask: What if I have a reading passage before the questions? Do I add it as a separate question with no weight? Or does it go separately?
If the following questions are all related to the passages, I'd include the passage in the instructions of the questions.
Hi; great; Is there a simple way to import cloze questions?
Very useful video for MOODLE users
Thanks for great information
THANK YOU JAZAKAaLLAH BIKHAIR
Much appreciated +Shahul Hameed Mohamed Ibrahim
Thanks a lot 🙏🙏🙏
Excellent video! Cheers!
Thank you David!
Quite useful. Please keep moodle videos coming.
Anything specific?
Thank you. Nice background music, btw.
Very Useful. Thank you So much.
So nice of you
Excellent video, thank you.
Thank you for the feedback Vivien.
Example, I want to import some questions from another quiz to be added to another quiz?
Very good explanation. Thank you
Thank you
Thanks for your explaination, very useful and clear.. but how do i attach images in questions ?
in question I put mark i s 5. In preview mode it is, but in test it is mark 1 for each question. Where can I change setting to get wanted marks in tests.
Great session
Interested in question branching based on scores assigned in a Likert scale applied to a series of statements in a question.