I am a high school math teacher, and a huge advocate for Moodle. I recently spent a week at a great math conference and discussed Moodle with many teachers. The lack of support for importing Examview questions is a MAJOR shortfall for Moodle. I have done the research on why it does not work and have talked to fscreations about the removal of the XML export. Currently, fscreations claims that the blackboard export work around is an acceptable way to do this. This is nonsense, since it does not handle equations, graphs or other graphics.
I appeal to the Moodle community to help me solve this problem. I am a developer and recognize the difficulty in the current import of EV questions, but it seems that it can be solved. I truely believe that this integration is vital to the integration of Moodle for most math teachers. It might be that if enough of us go to the fscreations forum and post their need, they might listen.
http://forum.fscreations.com/index.php?showtopic=1215
Please help with this, I truely believe that this is a vital enhancement that we should take very seriously for the progress of Moodle as a classroom solution.
Thank You
Willy Felton
Willy - Not sure if it will help but I was wondering if the discussion at http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=117876 might be of help to you. I know that Matt Campbell recently agreed to help maintain some code in CONTRIB. You may wish to check out http://download.moodle.org/download.php/plugins/question/format/examview_blackboard.zip and see if that helps. Peace - Anthony
Your post is likely to be seen by more of the relevant people if you post in the quiz forum (http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=121)
Yes, it would be brilliant to have better Examview import into Moodle. Howard Miller is the person who mostly looks after the import/export code, and he has been really busy recently. I (quiz maintainer) also have lots of things on my todo list. So, realistically, something will only happen if someone who needs this does the 'scratch your own itch' thing.
Question import/export is not rocket science. All the code is in question/format/*, question/format.php, question/import.php and question/export.php. All you have to do is parse the import file, and then massage the data into the structure Moodle expects.
There is some documentation on the moodle docs wiki, in the developer documentation section, but really, you just need to read the code of some of the existing importers. (Start with XML and and gift formats).
The other thing you need is the other bit of software, so you can easily generate example files with different types of question in them. That of course is a pain whenever you are talking about supporting the format of commercial software, or software that only runs on Windows.
If you want to give it a go, we will try to help, but as I say, the quiz forum is probably the best place for that.
Yes, it would be brilliant to have better Examview import into Moodle. Howard Miller is the person who mostly looks after the import/export code, and he has been really busy recently. I (quiz maintainer) also have lots of things on my todo list. So, realistically, something will only happen if someone who needs this does the 'scratch your own itch' thing.
Question import/export is not rocket science. All the code is in question/format/*, question/format.php, question/import.php and question/export.php. All you have to do is parse the import file, and then massage the data into the structure Moodle expects.
There is some documentation on the moodle docs wiki, in the developer documentation section, but really, you just need to read the code of some of the existing importers. (Start with XML and and gift formats).
The other thing you need is the other bit of software, so you can easily generate example files with different types of question in them. That of course is a pain whenever you are talking about supporting the format of commercial software, or software that only runs on Windows.
If you want to give it a go, we will try to help, but as I say, the quiz forum is probably the best place for that.