Keywords: assessment, quiz, question, automated feedback, automated grading, automated marking, interactive, formative, summative
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What is it?
The Word Table format lets you create Moodle quiz questions, including comprehensive feedback feedback and grades in Word tables, then upload them to Moodle. This can save you time.
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- Matching: Match 4 or more words or phrases.
- Multiple-Choice: Choose Choose the 1 correct answer from 4 or more possible answers.
- Multiple-Answer: Choose 1 or more correct answers from 4 or more possible answers.
- Short Answer: Free text answer.
- Description: Not a question, just a facility to add some text, usually instructions for a set of following questions.
- Essay: An essay question allows the entry of free text, which is not graded.
- True/False: Choose whether a statement is true or false.
- Cloze: Fill Fill-in-the-blanks or Embedded answers question. Use bold to enter Multichoice Multi-choice items, italic to enter Short Answer items, and underline to enter Numerical items.
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- Staff can use this to upload questions more quickly into a Moodle course course.
Before I start...
You can either use the Word template file and file to copy and paste the corresponding tables for the question types questions you want to create orcreate or, install a plugin for Word to allow you to create new quizzes and add new questions into a Word table by clicking on buttons within the Word Add-Ins tab.
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- Open the downloaded template in Word.
- Enable editing.
- Leave Type Category Name for now.
- Choose the type of questions you want to create (MCQ, multi-answer, matching, short answer, essay, description, true/false, cloze, description). You can mix and match these.
- For each question you want to create, copy the corresponding table, including the name. E.g. MCQ MCQ Question name (MC).
- See How do I use it? below to understand how to complete the table for each question type.
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Follow the instructions below to download and install the plugin for your platform.
>> Instructions for installing the WordTable Plugin .
- Once installed, open Word and you should see a Moodle (or Add-Ins) tab in Word.
- Click the Moodle tab > New question file and save the file to your computer.
- Delete the True/False question, unless you want to add this type of question.
- On the Moodle tab, in the Add Questions menu, click the type of question you would like to insert and the complete the table following the instructions under How do I use it?below.
How do I use it?
Once you have your Word document template, or Word Add-In installed (see Before I start...) you can populate your Word document with your questions, ready for uploading into your Moodle course.
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- Navigate to your Moodle course
- In the Settings menu, click Question Bank.
- In the Settings menu, click Import.
- Go to the top menu and click More>Question Bank.
- Once in the Question Bank, choose Import in the drop-down menu at the top.
- Select Microsoft Word 2010 table format (wordtable)
- Choose the category you would like to import questions in to. You can leave this as the default if you like.
- If you keep 'the Get category from file' selected checkbox selected, Moodle will create categories based on those in the Word file you upload.
- Drag your Word document to the import file area, or click click Choose a file... > Upload a file and Choose File , then select it from your computer and click Open and Upload this file .
- Click Click Import .
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Further guidance on Word table format is available from moodledocsMoodle Docs. If you find any inaccurate or missing information you can even update this yourself (it's a communal wiki). If you have a specific question about the tool please contact the Digital Education team. |
Caution
Each time you import questions these will be added to any that already exist in your Moodle course question bank. If you want to edit and replace the existing questions you will need to delete these from the question bank before importing the updated questions, otherwise you will end up with duplicates.
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1) If you receive the error: ' The type of the file you selected (application/msword) does not match the type expected by this import format (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document).' Please ensure the Microsoft Word file you are trying to import is of type .docx (and not .doc) If you are using a .doc file select Save As, and select file type Microsoft Word (*.docx) from the Save As drop down list. Once you have saved the file as type .docx please try again to import the file to your Moodle quiz.
2) If you receive the below error regarding the Moodle language...
Please carry out the following to add the Moodle Language.
- Within the Word document select the File menu.
- Select Info.
- Select Properties.
- Select Advanced Properties.
- Look under the Custom tab.
- Type the moodleLanguage within the Name field (This is case sensitive - a lowercase m for moodle and an upper case L for Language is required)
- Type en within the Type field (This is case sensitive, please ensure en is in lower case) and click Add.
- Try again to import your Word Table format document (*.docx file) to your Moodle quiz.
Further information
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