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Creating Moodle Quiz Questions in the GIFT Format

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What is the GIFT Quiz Format?

GIFT ("General Import Format Technology") is the most comprehensive import format available for importing quiz questions into Moodle. It is Moodle's proprietary format. (Other quiz formats can be imported into Moodle as well. Read more about compatible quiz formats).

Formatting your questions in the GIFT format (plain text) allows you to rapidly import a large number of questions and answers into a Moodle question bank. This can be much faster than manually creating each quiz question.

GIFT supports Multiple-Choice, Short Answer, True-False, Matching, Numerical questions, and Essay, as well as insertion of a _____ for the Missing Word format.

Various question-types can be mixed in a single text file, and the format also supports line comments, categories, question names, feedback and percentage-weight grades.

The text encoding of your text file must be UTF-8 (unless you only use plain text ASCII characters).

The Basics of GIFT

Each individual question in the GIFT file must not contain any blank lines. Each question is delimited by at least one blank line. If you need to represent a blank line in your question, you can use the entity \n. You can add comments wherever you wish, but they must start with two forward slashes (//) at the start of the line.

For multiple choice questions, wrong answers are prefixed with a tilde (

) and the correct answer is prefixed with an equal sign (=).

The Missing Word format automatically inserts a fill-in-the-blank line (like this _____) in the middle of the sentence. To use the Missing Word format, place the answers where you want the line to appear in the sentence.

If the answers come before the closing punctuation mark, a fill-in-the-blank line will be inserted for the "missing word" format. All question types can be written in the Missing Word format.

There must be a blank line (double carriage return) separating questions. For clarity, the answers can be written on separate lines and even indented. For example:

Answers in Short Answer question-type are all prefixed by an equal sign (=), indicating that they are all correct answers. The answers must not contain a tilde.

As in the last example above, all possible answers need to be entered in order for the grading to be accurate. If there is only one correct Short Answer, it may be written without the equal sign prefix, as long as it cannot be confused as True-False.

In this question-type the answer indicates whether the statement is true or false. The answer should be written as or , or abbreviated to or .

Matching pairs begin with an equal sign (=) and are separated by this symbol "->". There must be at least three matching pairs.

Matching questions do not support feedback or percentage answer weights (see below).

The answer section for Numerical questions must start with a number sign (#). Numerical answers can include an error margin, which is written following the correct answer, separated by a colon. So for example, if the correct answer is anything between 1.5 and 2.5, then it would be written as follows