Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Question Format)

Question formats ::: qformat_wordtable
Maintained by Eoin Campbell
Import questions (including images and equations) from structured tables in a Word file (.docx format) into a course question bank, and also export questions to a Word file, allowing for round-trip editing.

Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Question Format) v2.8.5 (Build: 20140512.1_9)

Moodle 1.9
Released: Monday, 12 May 2014, 7:26 PM
Release notes
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Date Version Comment
2014/05/12 2.8.5 Handle invalid 'complete="true"' attribute in images, fix loop through all CDATA
sections, keep tr elements when cleaning HTML manually.

2014/05/07 2.8.4 Fix error in image handling in Moodle 1.9, add work-around to cope with XSLT
idiosyncrasies that insert namespace declaration on wrong element, breaking the
Word export facility. Fix mishandling of Hints in Short Answer export.

2014/05/04 2.8.3 Improve image handling to properly export any images used inside feedback text.

2014/05/03 2.8.2 Handle images with names that include spaces or other non-alphanumeric characters.

2014/05/02 2.8.1 CONTRIB-5028: clean up HTML markup (using strip_tags) better using if the PHP tidy
extension is not installed.

2014/04/28 2.8 Use the PHP tidy extension to ensure that any HTML inside CDATA sections is well-formed
XHTML, otherwise Word export fails.

2014/02/27 2.7.1 Add Word export support for RTL languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.

2014/02/03 2.7 Add Word export support for languages other than English, using labels in the language
of the users' current interface language selection. Also support new Moodle 2.x
question features such as Hints and Tags.

2014/01/03 2.6 Add support for including any images used in questions exported into a Word file, in a
two-stage process that also requires using a command in the Moodle2Word Word template to
embed the encoded images into the file.

2013/12/20 2.5 Improve handling of CDATA text that includes HTML markup, and the Moodle 1.9 question
textancillary image element.

2013/03/15 2.4 Improve handling of Cloze question formatting when exporting to Word format.

Version information

Version build number
2014051201
Version release name
v2.8.5 (Build: 20140512.1_9)
Can be updated from
1.9 (Build: 20130429), 2.7 (Build: 20140203.1_9), 2.7.1 (Build: 20140227.1_9), 2.8 (Build: 2014042801.1_9), 2.8.1 (Build: 20140502.1_9), v2.8.2 (20140503), v2.8.3 (20140504.1_9), v2.8.4 (Build: 20140507.1_9), v2.8.4 (Build: 2014050703.1_9)
Maturity
Stable version
MD5 Sum
9ca1e25ae75f474429100320ae256698
Supported software
Moodle 1.9
  • Latest release for Moodle 1.9

Version control information

Version control system (VCS)
GIT
VCS repository URL

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type Question formats

  1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
  2. Download and unpack the module.
  3. Place the folder (eg "myformat") in the "question/format" subdirectory.
  4. Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to finish the installation