Respondus is a Windows-based desktop quiz-making program, which allows instructors to create questions offline (and not directly inside Moodle sites), and then import them into the Moodle or WebVista. Respondus can be also used to convert WebVista quizzes into Moodle and vice versa.
Download and install Respondus
Create quizzes offline with Respondus
Export questions from Respondus to Moodle
Step 1: In Respondus
- Start the Respondus program
- Click the Start tab:
- Select IMS QTI under current personality
- Click the Open button > select and open Respondus file with your questions
- Click the Preview and Publish tab:
- Click Save QTI XML File
- Select QTI XML zip file using IMS Content Packaging
- Click the Save as button
- Download the zipped file to your desktop
Step 2: In Moodle
- Go to your Moodle site
- Add a new question category to your question bank, e.g. "Chapter1". Warning: Do not publish a category, unless you want to share it with everybody else on Moodle server!
- Click the Import tab
- Select the appropriate category
- Under File format select Respondus QTI format
- Browse to the .zip file on your computer
- Click Upload this file button
Import/convert WebVista quizzes into Moodle
- Start the Respondus program
- Click the Start tab
- Select WebCT Vista under Current Personality
- Click the Retrieval and Reports tab
- Click the Retrieve Questions sub-tab
- Select the appropriate server and section from the drop-down menus
- Select the appropriate quiz
- Type a name for the new file
- Click Retrieve button.
- Click OK once prompted. The status area should change to Completed.
- Click the Start tab:
- Change Current Personality to IMS QTI
- Click OK.
- Respondus will ask you whether you want to replace current quiz file that you have just retrieved, or save it under different name. It does not matter which option will you choose.
- Once the quiz is converted from WebCT format to IMS QTI, you will be able to export questions from Respondus to Moodle, by following instructions above.
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