Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

by Donnie Carpenter -
Number of replies: 12
I get the folowing message when trying to import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8:  I'm on Moodle 5.1.2.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\moodle\mod\quiz\format\examview\format.php on line 173


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In reply to Donnie Carpenter

Re: Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

by Donnie Carpenter -
Figured this one out myself. Went into the ExamView software and "exported" the test files in the XML format. Imported into Moodle just fine after that.
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Re: Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

by John Blake -
I have used ExamView Pro with Moodle. I have had issues with matching questions. I am using the OS X version. I am using EV version 4.1.5. I am going to try to create a test again in a few minutes and see how it imports in to Moodle.
Got this error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/incsborg/public_html/moodle/mod/quiz/format/xml/format.php on line 244

What format did you select to import your XML file? I tried Moodle XML...
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Re: Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

by Howard Miller -
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No, it's still ExamView import format. It seems you just have to make sure you get the 'correct' format when you export from ExamView.
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Re: Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

by Kevin Van Dewark -
I am having problems importing from an Exam View file.  I export from Exam View as xml and import into Moodle using examview, however I keep getting this error message.  Any suggestions?



Warning: htmlentities() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in E:\www\humphreys.edu\moodle\mod\quiz\format\examview\format.php on line 191
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Re: Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

by Matt Campbell -

I had an instructor having the same problem, and the problem is that it didnt like one of the fonts. Rather than try to figure it out, I just did this:

Attachment evamview.JPG
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Re: Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

by Donnie Carpenter -
Have stumbled on to another issue when importing ExamView XML into Moodle. If the ExamView source file contains "Italics", then the question does not import correctly into Moodle. Has anyone else ran into this one?
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Re: Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

by Chris Potter -
We've had problems with the import process halting at a question with a single apostrophe, such as in the words Chris's or John's. We noticed that if we went and replaced the special character reference of ’ with a blank or nothing, then it worked fine. Hope that helps.
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Re: Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

by Geof Duncan -
I'm using EV Pro 4.0.6 and have found that the xml format is sketchy at best. I've found that if I do an export to Blackboard 6.0. Then open the zip file produced and import the DAT file it works every time.
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Re: Import questions from Exam View Pro 4.0.8

by Cathy Maher -
Hi Geof,

I did not have any good results with ExamView xml files.  Thanks for the tip.

Cathy