What is the Quiz bank file format?

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SeanKim
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Suppose I have  many sets of questions and answer choices for multiple choice questions or matching questions that are all in text format. For instance 

q1. what is blah?

a. blah is meh, b. blah is blah, c. blah is wut. d. blah is kek. 

q2. match the following :

1. blah, 2 meh, 3. wut, 4. kek 

a. mehmeh, b. blahblah. c. kekek. d. wutwut

 

Is there a way to import these text questions in a text file or a word file into the quiz bank in one step? Or even in a few steps? Is there a phrase or a term for referring to such an action? 

 

It appears canvas uses QTI format which is xml based? Is there a way or a software tool to use this language to easily modify the text into a quiz bank to be imported? What might such a tool be? 

Any help is much appreciated. 

 

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Chris_Hofer
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Hi @SeanKim ...

I wrote a blog post back in 2015 called Batch Uploading Quiz Questions with Respondus which explains how you can create a properly formatted text file, Word document, etc. to upload many quiz questions all at one time.  This works well for current Classic Quizzes, but I believe the folks at Respondus are working on something for New Quizzes...though I don't know their timeline on that.

Hope this might help!  Sing out if you have any questions.

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