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:
- Matching: Match 4 or more words or phrases. No feedback is included.
- Multiple-Choice: Choose the 1 correct answer from 4 or more possible answers. Specific feedback can be added for each answer.
- Multiple-Answer: Choose 1 or more correct answers from 4 or more possible answers. Specific feedback can be added for each answer.
- Short Answer: Free text answer. Specific feedback can be added for each possible 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. Specific feedback can be added for each answer - NOTE: these are usually best avoided as they are easy to guess.
- Cloze: Fill-in-the-blanks or Embedded answers question. Use bold to enter Multichoice items, italic to enter Short Answer items, and underline to enter Numerical items.
Creating your quiz questions in a Word document
You can either use this Word template file* *and copy and paste the tables for how ever many questions you want to create or install a plugin for Word (see below) 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.
Installing the Word Add-In
Follow the instructions below to download and install the plugin for your platform. Once installed it should appear in the Moodle or Add-Ins tab in Word.
>> INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLING the WordTable Plugin!
Importing the Word document to Moodle
Once you have created your Word Table document with your questions and are ready to upload them 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.
