Cross XML format

Question formats ::: qformat_crossxml
Maintained by Daniel Thies
This input format plugin is a handy utility that converts questions from one question type to another.
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Current versions available: 2

This plugin enables users to change types of some questions in the Moodle question bank by exporting the questions as Moodle XML format and importing with this format.

  • Short answer questions will be changed to single response multiple choice questions. The short answer questions should include alternate answers to serve as the distractors in the multiple choice questions.
  • Multiple choice questions  will be imported as short answer questions. The distractors of each multichoice question will serve as alternate (wrong) answers for the short answer question.
  •  Drag-and-drop into text questions will be conveted to Select missing words, and vice versa.
  • If the Drag-and-Drop Matching question type is installed, those questions will be converted to  the standard matching type, and standard matching will be converted to Drag and Drop. If it is not installed, thr regular matching questions will not be changed.
  • If All-or-Nothing Multiple Choice  is installed those questions will be converted to regular multichoice with more that one response. If it is not installed, they will be skipped. Each will be marked with percentage of possible correct responses checked or zero if an incorrect response is selected. You can create All-or-Nothing Multichoice questions from the standard ones using Import all or nothing format.
  • If OU multiple response is installed those questions will be converted to regular multichoice with more that one response. If it is not installed, they will be skipped. The new standard multichoice questions will be marked the same as the original OU Multiresponse questions would be.
  • Other types that support Moodle XML format should default to being imported without any changes.
Image files and feedback should be preserved by the transformations except where HTML question stems must  be converted to plain text stems.

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Daniel Thies (Lead maintainer)
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  • Plugins bot
    14/03/2018, 02:10
    Approval issue created: CONTRIB-7215
  • Tim
    10/04/2020, 05:27
    "If OU multiple response is installed those questions will be converted to regular multichoice with more that one response. If it is not installed, they will be skipped. The new standard multichoice questions will be marked the same as the original OU Multiresponse questions would be." - this is only partially true. One of the main points of OUMR is how it awards partial credit when using 'interactive with multiple tries' behaviour. No other qtype can replicate that.
  • Przemek Kaszubski
    26/03/2023, 03:28
    I'd love to be able to convert between "Drag-and-drop into text" and "Select missing words", which are almost identical in editing (except for the "Unlimited" feature that can be activated in the former type). If the "Cross XML format" plugin continues to be developed, maybe this proposed new conversion option could be added..
  • Daniel Thies
    30/04/2023, 01:41
    Thank you Przemek for the suggestion I will try that when I get the chance.
  • Daniel Thies
    30/04/2023, 03:09
    Actually that was easy. Those two were actually develop together by OU so the conversion is trivial.
  • Przemek Kaszubski
    30/04/2023, 19:26
    Thank you, Daniel. What a great update ! Just tested the new version חיוך .
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