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I too am getting a Java placeholder instead of an image. What might be missing in our setup that would cause Moodle to not read and decode the base64-converted image?

John

I was having a similar problem with TestGen. I have another test maker, EXAMVIEW, that worked perfectly.

You might pass on this information for those importing XML files into Moodle. If a question is corrupted (has something in it that Moodle doesn't like), it will stop the import at that question. In my case, I think it was a question with a ° degree symbol inserted from the test bank.

To solve this problem, go back to TESTGEN and delete that question from the quiz. Export from TESTGEN as a Blackboard 6.x-9.x. file again, then convert that zipped file using the MoodleXML builder from Nash Community College into an XML file and import again into Moodle test bank for your quiz. 

Now, for the question you deleted, go into Moodle Quiz editing screen, add a new question, and create it manually by typing in the question and the possible answers.  The text editor let me add the ° degree symbol there.

It has been quite some time since I have checked in on the forum. Work and life has taken me in other directions. But as far as coping the Moodle folder over to the Mac and running the jar, this should work with no problems except if images are involved. The path to the folder location will cause problems due to the "\" and "/" path delimter differences. It should be a fairly easy fix which I hope to get to soon. I just received a Mac so now I can do some testing.

At the same time I release a Mac version  I will also be releasing an update of the Windows version. Both will include improved error checking and will also allow the user to add a question prefix to the question name. MoodleXMLBuilder currently uses a "q" number (question number) and a truncated section of the question text for the Moodle question name.  This does cause duplication of "q" numbers with multiple imports into the same question bank. In the update, soon to be released, the user can add text of their own choosing as a prefix to the question name. So if importing questions for say chapter 11 section 2, the user might use "11.2" as a prefix. If later importing questions from chapter 11 section 3 adding a prefix of "11.3"  will delineate the difference in the Moodle question bank.

Hopefully an update and the Mac version will be released soon.

Gary Blackburn

Hello,

On Monday, I will begin a new year and teaching math again. So I finished this just in time .

I will update the docs, but just a few notes

This will be part of Moodle 2.3.1+ and 2.2.4+ that will be released in a few hours (I just checked the download page now and the versions are still those from yesterday so don't rush too much to download ).

Of course they will also be part of Moodle 2.3.2 and 2.2.5 to be released on september 10th, so if you are not in a hurry you can as well wait for the annoucement of these versions.

Once you have updated your moodle server with these new versions, to use the new question import format, go to Question bank and choose "BlackBoard V6+" as file format (the name is unchanged).

Then upload any .dat or .zip file (it should work with any file, be it Blackboard, testGen exported as Blackboard, Examview exported as Blackboard, including the ones that were previously imported using the "Blackboard" format) and that's all.

If you have Adriane's dragdrop matching question type installed (ddmatch) Blackboard matching questions will be imported as dragdrop questions and will not loose the html formatting in the answers. Also distractors and several subquestions with same answers now works in matching questions (even if ddmatch is not installed).

If you are importing a zip file with images, images will be imported too. The code now use Tim's idea to directly import images without encoding them so it should work even with big images or with a lot of images.

If your zip file contains several dat files with questions, all of them will be imported.

Of course now this is public, despite I did numerous tests, I am quite sure some files imports will fails, or some of you will catch questions not perfectly imported, so the best you can do is to report problems on this forum or in the tracker so that I can fix them.

I must thank all people having send me sample files since I began this work months ago, without your help nothing would have been possible, because I don't have access to Blackboard or Examview (Pearson was kind enought to provide me with a licence for the Testgen software).

I hope this work will be usefull to teachers.