Export questions

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

• GIFT format
• Moodle XML format
• XHTML format

In addition, questions may be exported into Word format using a contributed plugin, Word table format. These can then be easily used to create paper tests.

An offline quiz additional plugin is available for several Moodle 2.x versions, which allows the teacher to create a quiz from multiple choice questions and save it in a DOCX file for review and modification in a word processor.

Process

• Click Settings>Quiz Administration>Question bank>Export.

• Select the output type required for the exported file.
• Use the pulldown menu to select the question category you want to export
• Check if you want the category name to exported and/or the context to be included. This only applies to some formats and is used to restore this information on import.
• Click on the export questions to file button
• You are invited to download the file to your computer.

Example uses of exported files

• GIFT and Moodle XML formats can be imported into the Lesson module And Question bank via an import question process.
• Exported question files on one server, can be imported into another Moodle site/server
• GIFT and Moodle XML formats can be tweaked to create word processing or spreadsheet documents suitable for paper tests or vetting.
• In case you want to convert your Moodle XML file into text format upload XML to http://moodle.heroku.com. It automatically generates *.txt with your questions

See also

• Moodle XML Converter to generate in and from XML.
• Website for converting Moodle Questions into tables in a Microsoft Word file, and vice versa.