[New Quizzes] Create Item Banks from MSWord

[rledda]

It would be useful that when you create a question [item] bank at the account level being able to upload a huge number of questions once by using a word document. Now, the only way to do this is to create them one by one.

Rosalie

[JACOBSEN_C]

1500 up votes...

[demellon]

kinda says it all.

[rdusek]

Using Excel could be even better and easier to incorporate. Just like BlackBoard CSV format  upload:  https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Tests_Pools_Surveys/Reuse_Questions/Upload_Questions 

[william_irwin]

For those of us who use platforms other then Windows (i.e. Mac OS X, iOS, etc), which is the only OS supported by Respondus, it would be really nice to be able to easily import blocks of test questions such as from Word files.

[nsweeten]

I have to use Parallels for Mac to create large quizzes.

My Institution gives me access to Respondus 4.0 for uploading .txt files to Canvas Quizzes.  I have to strip out all code from a WordDoc and hand format the .txt doc, but it is faster than one-question-at-a-time when a quiz is larger than 10-20 questions. 

[rosedwade]

TXT and other simple formats are not going to have the rich content capability that a docx file can provide.  I don't mind going back in after and import and fixing a few things, but I don't have time to enter every question.  There are other LMS platforms that have this capability so I know it is possible.  Please, please, please implement this.

Teacher Wade,

[rdusek]

You can easily create, save Blackboard questions in Excel, and then import them in Blackboard:

https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Tests_Pools_Surveys/Reuse_Questions/Upload_Questions 

Then you export them from Blackboard and import in Canvas. 

You can create a free account and have Blackboard courses here: Blackboard CourseSites 

[curtain]

Now there is a customer workflow that Instructure and the Canvas team should be proud of....  Use Excel to create a file, then Blackboard to process the file then export from Blackboard into a Canvas friendly format to import into Canvas.  Sad to see this is where we are.

[rdusek]

I would go back to Blackboard quizzes in a heartbeat.

If only for the automatically graded fill in the blank questions with pattern match:

https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Tests_Pools_Surveys/Question_Types/Fill_in_the_Blank_Qu...

But also making corrections and changes in quizzes live, while students are taking them or re-grading any question types on the fly.

It was like magic… (Sorry Canvas, I might be a “Blackboard addict” ☺ )

[gwied]

Wow, yes, Bb is brilliant compared to Canvas in this regard - pattern matching in fill-in-the-blank or essay questions. Time to copy the competition!