Hello everyone,
I've been working on a tool for the last few weeks that allows faculty to
migrate their quizzes from WebCT 4.1CE directly into Moodle here at Malaspina University College (http://mala.bc.ca/)
Don't confuse this with the current import that is available, this one is
different. Presently if you wish to export and import quizzes into Moodle from
WebCT you must export them one at a time in a text based format and import them
into Moodle. This tool allows you to use the 'Export' feature in WebCT to
download a zip file that has your quizzes and any attached images in it. With
the zip file you then can upload it to Moodle and unzip it. Then use the WebCT
Quiz Migration Block to load the imsmanifest.xml file and have the tool do the
importing for you all at once and preserve your images, questions and quiz structures if you have used any in
quizzes.
Currently the tool can do a few things. It can import categories
and associate
questions that belong to those categories. It can also import Short
Answer (Fill in the blank), Multiple Choice and
Matching questions. It will also import all images that maybe used in
these
questions. I'm waiting for Moodle 1.6 to be released to add Paragraph
question support and am looking for examples of Calculated questions to
add that support and then once all question types are supported I will
code in quiz structure recreation.
There is also error checking implemented where if a question cannot be imported
into Moodle with 100% accuracy it will attach a note to the question and the
reason why this question needs to be fixed. An example of this would be say the
grade value you've assigned to an answer in your WebCT quiz doesn't match any
of the grade values you can assign from Moodle. Another example is the Short
Answer (Fill in the blank) questions. Presently Moodle (1.5.3) only allows one
blank to be used where WebCT allows many. All the data IS imported into Moodle
with this tool but only one blank is created and the user is informed the
question will need some tweaking to work with Moodle.
The goal of this tool is to make migrating quizzes extremely simple and
painless and as accurate as possible. My goal is to be able to take any
question type over and recreate them along with the quiz structure.
I've setup a instance of Moodle on one of my servers for testing this block.
I've tested with examples from our current WebCT courses but no true testing is
complete without user feedback and real-world examples.
I'm looking for anyone interested in trying this tool out using quizzes from
their existing WebCT courses. You can access the instance of Moodle here:
http://pilot.malaonline.ca/. Just sign-up for an account and e-mail me
(schewee@mala.bc.ca) and I will create you a course to test the block with.
Any feedback or bug reports would be very much appreciated.
Also if anyone has some good examples of WebCT Calculated questions and doesn't mind parting with a copy of them I would love to use them to add importing of Calculated questions to the tool.
