Hi,
I have the following problem when importing cloze questions in Moodle version 1.9:
The imported questions show up fine in my Moodle course. However, when I open the question edit window in Moodle to change or add something all the imported formatting disappears and I have to reformat the question in the edit window.
Is there any way to avoid this?
Thank you for any suggestions.
Tom
@Tom,
Unfortunately you do not say where or how you import your cloze questions from. Please attach your import file to your reply so we can examine it.
Joseph
Hi Joseph,
Sorry about that. Since the import worked fine I didn't think of attaching the file. Here it is.
Thanks for your help
Tom
Hi Tom,
Thanks for attaching your import file. I'm afraid you've got it all wrong. Please read the instructions for GIFT to Cloze here: http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Embedded_Answers_%28Cloze%29_question_type#Importing_CLOZE_questions
Joseph
Hi Joseph,
If I've got it all wrong so does the example you refered me to. I does exactly the same thing as my imported file: it keeps the formatting until I open the quiz editing window, then the formatting disappears.
Any other suggestions?
Cheers
Tom
Hi Tom,
Sorry, I should have tested the Docs solution myself before referring you to it.
Will do it ASAP and report here.
Joseph
HI Tom, I'm back... Since I never import Cloze questions into Moodle I had completely misunderstood your question. PLease disregard my earlier replies.
Now, coming back to your original question, I do understand it and I do see the problem.
I'm afraid this happens because the carriage return characters that you put into you original imported file are re-interpreted (and... lost) when the Cloze question is edited in the HMTL editor. So you'll have to put them in again, from within the HTML editor. Boring, but that's the only solution I can think of.
Joseph
Hello Joseph,
Thanks for taking the time to check it out. I have been doing what you suggest but, as you point out, it's somewhat of a bore. I was hoping there might be a rather less boring solution.
Thanks again
Tom
Hello Tom and Joseph,
Apparently Joseph is not the only one never having used multianswer (cloze) question import because I just tested and multianswer import format seems to be broken in Moodle 2.2 and master (and maybe 2.1 too) and it seems nobody has reported it or asked for support in this forum !!
Unfortunately once this small problem is fixed, the problem is exactly the same in Moodle 2.2/2.3 : all formatting is lost when you edit the cloze question. Apparently the question text is considered as html and end of line are equivalent to space in html.
So maybe a solution for you Tom would be to use a text editor and search/replace on your text file before importing it into Moodle and add a <br /> html tag before each end of line ? I have tested this solution and it seems to work.
I will create an issue in the tracker to fix multianswer import format in Moodle 2.2/2.3.
Hello Jean-Michel,
Great, that does the job. Thanks very much Jean-Michel and have a nice day.
Tom