1 <P ALIGN=CENTER
><B>Importing new questions
</B></P>
3 <P>This function allows you to import questions from
4 external text files, uploaded through a form.
6 <P>A number of file formats are supported:
8 <P><B>Missing Word
</B></P>
10 <P>This format only supports multiple choice questions.
11 Each answer is separated with a tilde (~), and the correct answer is
12 prefixed with an equals sign (=). Here is an example:
14 <BLOCKQUOTE>As soon as we begin to explore our body parts as infants
15 we become students of {=anatomy and physiology ~reflexology
16 ~science ~experiment}, and in a sense we remain students for life.
19 <p align=right
><a href=
"help.php?file=formatmissingword.html&module=quiz">More info about the
"Missing Word" format
</a></p>
25 <P>This is the same as Missing Word Format, except that after importing
26 the questions all Short-Answer questions are converted four at a time
27 into Matching Questions.
</P>
28 <p>Additionally, the answers of multiple-choice questions are randomly
29 shuffled during the import.
30 <p>It's named after an organisation that sponsored the development of many
35 <P><B>Blackboard
</B></P>
37 <P>This module can import questions saved in Blackboard's export
38 format. It relies on XML functions being compiled into your PHP.
</P>
40 <p align=right
><a href=
"help.php?file=formatblackboard.html&module=quiz">More info about the
"Blackboard" format
</a></p>
45 <P>If you have your own format that you need to import, you can
46 implement it yourself by editing mod/quiz/format/custom.php
48 <P>The amount of new code needed is quite small - just enough
49 to parse a single question from given text.
51 <p align=right
><a href=
"help.php?file=formatcustom.html&module=quiz">More info about the
"Custom" format
</a></p>
55 <P>More formats are yet to come, including WebCT, IMS QTI and whatever else
56 Moodle users can contribute!
</p>