This is available for Authors.

You can import questions and question sets into Inspera Assessment using the standardized QTI format. This article shows you the step-by-step process for importing questions and question sets.

See also the following related articles: 

• Export questions and question sets to QTI 
• Excel to QTI conversion
• IMS QTI support (for technical background of the input format).

Import questions step-by-step

Imported questions should be tested by previewing the question in the Author module. This step is to ensure that your mark settings are working properly. To do this, preview your question > click Check answer.

1. Go to either Questions or Question sets in the Author module. The import option will be available for both questions and question sets later, regardless of your choice now.

2. Click the action dropdown menu, and select Import QTI. 

   

   • The maximum number of characters in the title is 400. If it exceeds this, then the import will fail and the user will see a warning that the title is too long. The number of characters in the title should be reduced before trying again. 
3. Upload the file
   • QTI 2.1 and 2.2 are supported. 
   • The file can be of the types zip or xlsx.
   • Zip files are usually visible by default, but if you want to import an xlsx file you may need to change settings to be able to choose this type. This depends on what computer or browser you use.

4. Select Update existing (Default) or Create new, then click Import now. 

   

5. An import summary will be shown, displaying whether a new question set was generated, the number of sections, and the total number of questions. 

   The import status is summarized here. You can then go directly to the new question set in the list, or choose to view the imported questions by clicking Show in list.

   

   • If you are importing questions only, you can create a question set as part of the process by clicking Create question set with questions after the import is completed. The question set will be created with the same name as the file you imported. 

     

Notes and limitations

• If you import an Excel file with questions, a question set named excel2qti will always be generated even when you import one question.
• As it is not possible to update existing question sets by importing new questions, any question set you create will only contain the questions in the current import. If you want to add the new questions to an existing question set, they have to be added manually to the question set after import.