GIFT format
With GIFT format you can write multiple-choice, true-false, short answer, matching and numerical questions.
Please note that the blank lines between questions are required when loading a text file from Windows. (maybe unix as well)
Here is an GIFT example for quiz-import, easy to copy and change ...
Hint: use the ::title:: at the beginning of every question to organize this for you (01 - testquestion), otherwise it would be difficult to find the right question for changes, moodle will take the beginning of every question as internal title ...
For UTF8 be careful: dont upload special signs (german ü,ä,.. and other stuff like that), without converting it on your local pc to utf8! notepad2 notepad2 may be helpful in that case.
In the Lesson module, in a question page, correct answers jump by default to Next page and incorrect answers jump to This page (i.e. student has to "try again"). When importing from a GIFT format file, this is exactly the mechanism which is used.
If you want a student to be taken directly from one question to the next irrespective of their answer being correct or incorrect: in the Lesson Settings, set Maximum number of attempts: to 1. Please note, however, that a message "correct / incorrect" will still be displayed to the student upon answering each question. If you do not want this (default) feedback message to be displayed then enter your own feedback message (i.e. "continue", "---", etc.) In case you want no visible message displayed then enter a non-breaking space as feeback, so you'll have to put a # after the answer which may be ~3 and write & n b s p ; after that.(without spaces between these characters) To find out how moodle works - you may export a sample of your questions with GIFT and check them out!
If you want to use curly braces, { or }, or equal sign, =, or # or ~ in a GIFT file (for example in a math question including TeX expressions) you must "escape" them by preceding them with a \ directly in front of each { or } or =. It is possible to use a replace program/macro/editor filter to do this conversion before importing to Moodle.
With GIFT its easy to organize a questions catalogue at your local pc and change and share questions
