Posts made by Martin Dougiamas

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No, not with the "missing word" format, unfortunately. That format was the result of a very specific request from someone who had thousands of questions in that format already.

I'm not sure if it will make sense to extend it to become Moodle's "native" format. As yet Moodle doesn't have a standard format that supports all question types - the import capabilities are very new and "missing word" is really an example of how to write a custom import module for a specific purpose. It would make sense to adopt an existing standard as the standard format, but though IMS QTI is the frontrunner for this I've heard it's a nightmare to actually work with.
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Yes, some improvements can be made to simplify the creation of the config.php file (which will be fixed in 1.1) but most of the actual installation difficulties seem to relate to setting up Apache and PHP, or in creating a directory for uploading files. These are things Moodle (or Xoops, phpBB etc) can never do.

That said, step-by-step install instructions for PHP are coming very soon : http://moodle.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=354