Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or uploaded to your Moodle question bank. Exams can be created offline using Microsoft Word or a text editor. Using Respondus with Moodle involves three steps.
Formatting the Quiz for Respondus
The first step is to format the quiz questions in the Respondus “Standard Format for Importing.” This is a required formatting technique that Respondus uses to understand the questions and the correct answers. Once the document is set up in the format, the next step is to import the quiz into the Respondus program. Please see the the Help section of the Respondus program on the “Standard Format for Import” for details.
Importing the Quiz into Respondus
Open Respondus (if you do not have Respondus for your office or home computer, you can download it from the Respondus download page on the IT Support Center website).
Select IMS QTI 1.1+ from the drop-down menu next to Current Personality.
Select the Import Questions button.
Set up the Import Questions box as follows:
Select the file type from the Type of file drop down menu. (For example: .doc, .docx, or .txt)
Choose either to append the questions to an existing document or to create a new one. (This example is done based on creating a new document.)
If you select a new document, enter a name for the quiz.
Select the Preview button to make sure there are no errors in the quiz file.
Once there are no errors, select the Finish button.
Next, select the Preview and Publish tab.
Select the Preview the File button to review the quiz.
Next, select the Save QTI XML File button.
In this area, select the following:
Select either Points as percentages or Points as decimal numbers.
In the File Format area, make sure you select QTI XML zip file using Content Packaging 1.1.3.
Select the Save As button and select a location on the local or networked drive to save the file to. You are done with Respondus at this point.
Import a Respondus-Formatted Quiz
Log in to the Moodle course, then go to the Administration block and select Questions.
In the Question bank screen, select the Import tab as shown by the red arrow.
Scroll down to the File format section of the Import Questions from File screen.
In the File Format section, select the radio button next to Respondus QTI format as shown by the red arrow
If you have previously created categories in your Question Bank, you can select the category name from the drop-down menu next to the Category label that you want your questions to be placed in.
Next, go to the Import from the file upload section and browse your local hard drive or network drive for the zip file from Respondus as shown by the red arrow.
(Please note: If you had uploaded the Respondus zip file to your Moodle Files area, you would import those questions by selecting Import file already in course files, then continue with the import process.)
Once you have located the file, select the Upload this file button as shown by the red arrow.
You will next see all the questions to be imported. If they look fine, scroll to the bottom of the page and select the Continue button.
Your questions are then added to the Question bank of the Moodle course.
