Inspera Assessment (IA) provides user-friendly interfaces to create questions directly in the platform. However, it may be so, that you already have a big question bank outside of IA, which are in formats inconvenient to copy and paste into IA, and in addition exists in a format that can be converted at scale into a structured format.
For this purpose, Inspera provides a free service that will create questions in the IMS QTI 2.1 format, based on input data exported from Canvas or Moodle. It only supports a subset of the question types supported in each of these platforms.
The following specific formats are supported:
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IMS QTI 1.2 XML, as exported from Canvas (there are also Moodle plugins that claim to export in this format), as described here
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Moodle Quiz XML format, as described here
The following question types are supported to import to Inspera Assessment from Moodle and Canvas:
Import questions to Inspera - from Moodle and Canvas
Export - To export questions from Moodle or Canvas, follow the instructions for exporting the files on your relevant platform.
Import - Read the article Import questions and questions sets (QTI) to get more information on how to import. Behind the scenes, the system detects the file type, converts it to a zip-file in the IMS QTI 2.1 format, which is then imported into Inspera Assessment.
Marks
By default, the different question types have the following mark settings:
Multiple choice: 1 mark for correct and 0 marks for the wrong answer.
Multiple response: 1 mark for correct and 0 marks for the wrong answer.
Essay: maximum 10 marks.
If you want to change the scoring options, this has to be edited in Inspera Assessment after import.
Formatting
The conversion and import routine tries to keep basic formatting intact; it also supports LaTex for equations and such.