Import or Export Question Banks between Moodle Courses

• Lecturer Guides, Quizzes
• November 18, 2023

Exporting questions

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  Open the Moodle course you want to copy questions from.

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  Click Question bank from the menu.

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  Choose Export from the drop-down menu.

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  In the "File format" area, select Moodle XML format.

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  Select the question category that you want to export.

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  Click Export questions to file and save the file to your local machine.

Importing questions

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  Open the Moodle course you want to copy questions to.

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  Click Question bank from the menu.

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  In the "File format" area, select Moodle XML format

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  Make sure the Default course level category is chosen from the "Import category" drop-down menu.

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  Click Choose file... to open the “File picker” window.

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  In the "File picker" window, click Choose file to browse and select your exported Moodle questions file.

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  Click Upload this file.

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  Click Import and you will see a preview of the imported questions.

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  Click Continue to proceed to the category containing the imported questions.

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  At this point, you have copied the quiz questions. You still need to create a new quiz and load the copied questions. See Create a Quiz for instructions on creating a new quiz.