The Word Table format lets you create Moodle quiz questions, including comprehensive feedback and grades in Word tables, then upload them to Moodle. This can save you time.
All the main question types except Calculated questions are supported. That means you can import the following:
- MCQ (single answer or multiple answer)
- Short-answer
- Cloze (fill-in-the-blanks)
- Matching
- True/False - although these are usually best avoided for pedagogic reasons
Creating your quiz questions in a Word document
You can either use this Word template file, 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.
Importing the Word document to Moodle
- Navigate to your Moodle course
- In the Settings menu, click Question Bank.
- In the Settings menu, click Import.
- Select Microsoft Word 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 'Get category from file' 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 Choose a file... > Upload a file and Choose File, then select it from your computer and click Open and Upload this file.
- Click Import.
