It's fairly straightforward to copy sets of quiz questions between courses.
Part
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Exporting questions
- Open the Moodle course you want to copy questions from.
- Click Export from the "Question bank" drop-down in the “Course administration” menu.
- In the "File format" area, select Moodle XML format.
- In the "Export category" drop-down, choose the category you want to copy from.
- Click Export questions to file and save the file to your local machine.
Part
2
2
Importing questions
- Open the Moodle course you want to copy questions to.
- Click Import from the "Question bank" drop-down in the “Course administration” menu.
- In the "File format" area, select Moodle XML format
- Make sure the Default course level category is chosen from the "Import categroy" drop-down menu.
- In the “Export category” drop-down, choose the category you want to copy from.
- Click Choose file... to open the “File picker” window.
- In the "File picker" window, click Choose file to browse and select your exported Moodle questions file.
- Click Upload this file.
- Click Import and you will see a preview of the imported questions.
- Click Continue to proceed to the category containing the imported questions.
- 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.
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Last Update: September 18, 2023

