If your course is loading slow and your question bank has gotten out of control over time, we encourage you to import you course without your question bank. This will greatly improve loading speeds for your course and help prevent issues in the future. However you will need to import each category of questions and rebuild quizzes as needed in your new course. This will ensure that you only keep the questions you need so you aren't trying to load (sometimes thousands) of unneeded questions each semester.
The steps below seem like a lot at first glance, but once you have the steps down you can do it in about 10-15 minutes per test and it will save you a ton of time in comparison to copy and pasting the text for each question individually. If you get stuck please email edtech@davidsondavie.edu
Retrieve Your Questions
- Locate the quiz you want questions from (in your old course/template course).
- Click your Quiz title in your course, Click Questions, and click a Question Title to view it's details
- Take note of the Parent Category name. There will be a parenthesis after the category name that tells you how many questions are in that category. It should look like this: Osmosis (10)
- Click a few more questions and compare against the number of questions in your quiz to ensure this parent category has all your questions in it. If it does, skip to step #6. If it does not, continue to the next step.
- If you have some questions that are in an odd category, when viewing the question you can click Preview at the bottom of the screen and then click Download question in XML format. This will download that one question so you can move it by itself.
- Click Question Bank in your course, click Export, locate the Parent Category in the drop down menu that matches Step 3. Click Moodle XML format as the export format and then Export. The file should now be saved in your Downloads folder on your computer
Move Questions to your new course
- Visit the course you want to move questions to and click Question Bank. You may have to click More to see the Question Bank option.
- If you want your questions to be saved in a particular category, you will need to add one, by clicking the Question Bank drop down menu, select Category, and then click Add.
- Visit Question Bank menu and click Import.
- On the Import page, select Moodle XML format. If you want them to go into the category that you created earlier, select General, select your category in the drop down menu, and un-select "Get category from file". Drag and drop or search for the XML file on your computer and click Import. Keep an eye out for green confirmation messages (success) or red error messages and email edtech@davidsondavie.edu if you need help. You may have to repeat this step multiple times if you have multiple XML files to import to this category.
- When you have all your questions in your category you are ready to add them to a quiz.
Adding Quiz Questions
- Create a Quiz in your course by turning on Edit Mode, click Add an Activity or Resource, select the All tab, and then select Quiz.
- Set up your quiz settings (enter a title, due date, directions, etc.) and click Save and Display.
- Select the Questions tab (option A) from the quiz navigation bar or click on the button for Add Question (option B). You will be redirected to a new page.
- Select "from question bank" from the Add drop down menu
Adding a question from your question bank
- Find the category of questions you want in the drop down menu and click Apply Filter
- Use the radio button (square) on the left of each question or all or some of them (if you are adding more than 20 questions from the question bank at a time, you may need to see our guide below for additional help)
- Click Add
- Edit individual questions as needed and save changes
Adding more than 20 questions?
See our Moodle help article about how to do this. There is a Moodle glitch that happens when adding more than 20 questions at once, but there is a work around/solution.