The Moodle quiz module can be a powerful tool for providing students with fast formative feedback. Did you know however that questions don’t have to be created in Moodle? You can import directly from your favorite text editor.  For example, the text:

can be imported directly into Moodle as an “Aiken” file to become:

I’ve recorded a two part tutorial on how to do it. Here are the links:

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Now I’m going to throw a question out to the community. Moodle has a very powerful internal format (Moodle XML) that will allow you to create quizzes that include images, formatting, etc.  Does anyone know of a good tool that will allow you to create these offline?  Once upon a time there was a MS Word template that could do this. Thoughts?