If you have multiple choice questions already written in an electronic format (such as Microsoft Word or similar) you can bulk import them into QBgenerator very quickly and easily.
To do this, first make sure that the multiple choice questions are in the following format:
1. Question text
a) Answer a
b) Answer b
c) Answer c
2. Question 2 etc.
· Answer labels can be in format A) A: A. or (A).
· Text can be uppercase or lowercase.
· There is no limit to the number of questions you can upload.
· All questions should be applicable to the same Module. If you have more than one module to which you want to upload questions, make a new upload for each separate module.
Save the file as a .txt file (in Microsoft Word 2007, select Office Button – Save As – Other Formats, and choose plain text format. The procedure may be different in other programmes or other versions of Microsoft Word).
Next, follow this procedure to upload the questions:
1. Select Edit Questions from the main menu.
2. Choose the Module which you want to upload the questions to, from the dropdown menu (only those modules for which you are subscribed to, will be available).
3. When the current set of questions displays (if any exist), select the Import Questions button.
4. Use the Browse button to select the .txt file containing the multiple choice questions from your computer.
5. If the first answer is always the correct answer, tick the First answer correct box. (The answers are randomly shuffled on any exam to be generated.)
6. If your questions are all written in capitals, tick the Convert CAPITALS to Sentence Case? box.
7. Click the Submit button.
The questions will be submitted to a “preview page”. On the preview page you can select the correct answers by clicking the respective radio buttons next to the answers (these will already be selected if you selected the First answer correct in step 5 above). You can ignore this task at this stage, if you wish. It can also be done at the next stage. You can also deselect individual questions by unticking the boxes next to any questions which you do not wish to import at this time.
Review the questions displayed on this page, to check that there are no anomalies or missing items. If there are anomalies or missing items, it is most likely that the formatting of the .txt file that you are reading from is not correct. Correct the formatting of the .txt file and try again.
If you are happy with the way that the questions appear on the preview page, click the Save button. The questions will be saved into a temporary Subsection within the Module. You can view the new imported questions by selecting the Edit Questions button on the Main Menu, then select the Module from the dropdown menu. Select the last page from the Page dropdown menu, and you will see the new questions listed.
Before the questions can be made available for use in exam generations, they need to be marked (correct answer a, b or c) if not already marked, and graded (level 1, 2 or 3), and distributed to the appropriate Subsections, and approved by an independent administrator.
Cancelling an Import
If you need to reverse the import (for example, if you made a mistake, and
imported them into the wrong module), you can reverse, or cancel, the import. To do this, click the Import Questions
button. Select the set of imported
questions from the Cancel Import dropdown menu (imported set is labelled with
the date and time of import). Click Delete
and the imported questions will be deleted permanently.
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