Hello,
We do all your quizes in multiple choice. what would be the format for a text file if I wanted to create the quiz questions off line then import them?
This would help my teachers and my self greatly. We just started and online study course. We have hundreds of questions saved in word format that can be cut and pasted into a text file if I just knew the format that would work.
Thank you
Tony Sobottka
Healing Arts Center http://www.yamamizuryu.org
You can import multiple choice questions from a text file in this format:
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// MISSING WORD FORMAT
///
/// This Moodle class provides all functions necessary to import and export
/// one-correct-answer multiple choice questions in this format:
///
/// As soon as we begin to explore our body parts as infants
/// we become students of {=anatomy and physiology ~reflexology
/// ~science ~experiment}, and in a sense we remain students for life.
///
/// Each answer is separated with a tilde ~, and the correct answer is
/// prefixed with an equals sign =
///
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
(from comment section in missingword.php)
There are other alternatives, such as: import your word documents into programs that can export them in the Blackboard format, then import them in moodle using the Blackboard Format (see http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1091) or modify custom.php to parse your text files yourself.
Hope this helps,
Scott
A problem that baffles me with importing a quiz in txt format...
Here it is:
The troposphere extends to about:{ ~52 000 ft above the polar regions;
~35 000 ft above the tropical regions; ~20 000ft above the polar regions =26 000 ft above the polar regions}.
If I import this as a missing word format I get the error "
1. The troposphere extends to about:_____.
One of the answers should be 100%, so that it is
possible to get a full grade for this question.
Do you want to go back and fix this question?"
If I cut and past the sample question to give an idea to the format it works fine, but any question I make it says go away...
Any ideas???
Chris
Upon inspecting the source, I believe the example given in the help and in the comment section at the top of missingword.php could be changed and we won't need to fix any code. It appears that ALL answers wrong or right must start with a ~ character. I got this to work for your example:
The troposphere extends to about:{ ~52 000 ft above the polar regions;
~35 000 ft above the tropical regions; ~20 000ft above the polar regions ~=26 000 ft above the polar regions}.
I'm not sure if this was intentional, but this seems to work.
Scott
I created with the MISSING WORD format a quizz where I say in the header that the person in a story ("A day in the life of Martin Moodle") has to make some choices. Then I ask the readers to mark the sentences with Yes or No if they think the person makes a choice. (I could also decide to make a variation :Yes/NO/I Don't know)
I created this format:
Martin steps out the shower and turns his computer on. >>>> Choice? {=Yes ~No}
Martin runs to the kitchen, jumps over the cat and opens the frig >>>> Choice? {~Yes =No}
The coffemachine makes a boiling noise. >>>> Choice? {~Yes =No}
Then the phone rings and Martin runs back to his desk >>>> Choice? {~Yes =No}
After Martin's last repair I can file in this format end get on the screen sentences like this:
_________________________________________________________________________
5 Martin runs to the kitchen, jumps over the cat and opens the frig. >>> Choice? _________
1 point Answer: a. Yes
b. No
_________________________________________________________________________
Because it is a story, i made the choice not to mix the questions (still the are mixed up)
I also decided not to mix the answers, so Yes is always first (still they are mixed up)
WISH: Answers in a quiz seam always to be THE TRUTH, but if you look at the story you could dispute several yes/no answers... Would it not be nice to have the same quiz in a survey format, so you could see your answers (what is the maximal set of answers, now is six?) against the group-average?
By the way, I think that i have understood
This is a question {~and this is an icorrect answer =and this is the correct answer} but what
about comments and marks.
Is there something like....
This is a question {~this an incorrect answer worth %-10 percent /with this comment
=this the correct answer worth %100 perscent /with this comment}
Tim
....
Part of improving the quality of Moodle is also improving the quality of tests. (open assignments is another subject.)
For me the test problem has these parts:
. This will make my life easy.