Ques°on bank

Questions are stored in the course Question bank. This feature allows a teacher to create, preview,

and edit questions in a database of question categories. The teacher enters the question bank by

creating or editing a quiz activity or via

Settings > Course administration > Question bank

.

Ques°on categories

Questions can be organized into Question categories and shared with other teachers. The categories

can be limited to being used on the site, course or quiz level.

You can imagine a question category as a folder on your desktop computer. Then, questions are

stored in these categories in a similar way as your files are stored in a file system.

You can create a

category hierarchy

. For example, you can specify a parent category for each

category or the 'Top' as the parent, when a category has no parent.

Ques°on Sharing

You can share questions in several different contexts. Sharing categories in the 'System' context or

'Course' context has a similar effect to publishing the category so others can see them or hiding a

question category from specific users.

By default a course teacher cannot see or use any Question context above the course level.

Impor°ng ques°ons from an exis°ng file

Moodle has a number of different formats that can be used to import or export questions.

It is possible to import questions from a file on your network/computer or from a file that has been

saved or uploaded into your course files. The underlying character encoding of this file is important.

Note: Moodle XML format is the recommended import question type format as it enables the

maximum amount of question data (such as question feedback) to be imported.

It is not possible to import questions from .xls, .xlsx, doc or docx files, but there is a possibility to

generate GIFT files from Excel. It is quite complicated, but you can find instructions as well as

an .xls template at this address:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=66660#p309302

Export questions

Questions may be exported from the Quiz module and the Question bank in any one of 3 formats:



GIFT format

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Moodle XML format

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XHTML format

These files need to be edited with a text editor (e.g. notepad) and are not compatible with Excel.