Loading content in batches.

[BenjaminHall]

Hello.  I am working for an instructor that needs to import existing content (qti for quizzes) a folder at a time, and set them to be quizzes.  Example. A teacher has a folder with N amount of totally different qti zip file quizzes. and wants to import them and set them to QTI for quizzes that would be automatically graded all in one process.   Can the system do this?  If not, is there another way to accomplish something like this?  If not,  I know Canvas is open source, are there any tutorials for creating individual plug ins?  Thank you for your time.

[jmerlenbach2]

Hi Benjamin,

I have not done this myself, so take this with a grain of salt, but you may be able to script something to loop over all of those QTI files and import them using this Canvas API endpoint: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/all_resources.html#method.content_migrations.create

That was originally posted here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Can-I-use-the-REST-API-to-import-a-testbank...

Hope that can at least be a jumping off point for you!

[BenjaminHall]

Thank You! I will look in to this.

[BenjaminHall]

I have followed some of the examples using cURL to add a question to a quiz and I getting a blank page (see below).

here is my code:

<?php

// Update these variables with appropriate values

$token = "?????????????????????????????";

$site = "path/to/a/folder/in/my/account";

$course_id = "my_course";

$quiz_id = "my_XQuestionSample_8134343";

// Define the URL for the request

$url = "$site/api/v1/courses/$course_id/quizzes/$quiz_id/questions";

// Initialize cURL session

$ch = curl_init();

// Set the URL for the request

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

// Return the response instead of printing

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

// Set the HTTP request method to POST

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

// Set the headers

$headers = [

"Authorization: Bearer $token",

"Content-Type: application/json"

];

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

// Create the data array (example question data)

$data = [

"question" => [

"question_name" => "Sample Question",

"question_text" => "What is 2 + 2?",

"question_type" => "multiple_choice_question",

"points_possible" => 5,

"answers" => [

[

"answer_text" => "3",

"answer_weight" => 0

],

[

"answer_text" => "4",

"answer_weight" => 100

],

[

"answer_text" => "5",

"answer_weight" => 0

]

]

]

];

// JSON encode the data

$json_data = json_encode($data);

// Attach the data to the request

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json_data);

// Execute the request

$output = curl_exec($ch);

// Check for errors

if ($output === FALSE) {

echo "cURL Error: " . curl_error($ch);

} else {

// Print the output

print_r($output);

}

// Close the cURL session

curl_close($ch);

?>

here are the errors: