Transferring Question Bank from the last Academic Year on Moodle

The following serves as a guide for situations where a lecturer would like to transfer only the question bank from a previous academic year.

If you would like to transfer content instead of just questions in an exam, please see the following video: Backup Moodle Course

Please note that we only keep Moodle from the previous academic year on the live server, so you should ensure that you download your question bank if you would like to keep it over a longer period of time.

Exporting / Downloading the Question Bank

The first step of the process would be to download the question bank

This can be done through the following steps:

Navigate to the course you would like to copy the question bank from.
Click the Gear icon on the top right of the course page then click ‘More’
On the following course administration page, click the ‘Export’ button under ‘Question Bank’
Check the option that says ‘GIFT Format’
Select the Export Category that says ‘Top for …. <course name>’
e.g. for ENG1105, it would say ‘Top for ENG1105 - Introduction to English (4 Credits)’
Leave the options ‘Write category to file’ and ‘Write context to file’ checked.
Click ‘Export questions to file'. Your file will be saved in your downloads folder.

Importing the Question Bank to a new course

Once the file has been downloaded, you will be able to import it into any other Moodle course you desire.

Navigate to the course you would like to place the question bank into.
Click the Gear icon on the top right of the course page then click ‘More’
On the following course administration page, click the ‘Import’ button under ‘Question Bank’
Check ‘GIFT Format’ and upload the file that you saved in the previous step.
Uploading the file can be done by dragging the file into the box, or clicking the ‘Choose a file’ button and navigating to your downloads folder where the file is stored.
Click the ‘Import’ button and wait for the upload to be complete.
Confirm that all your questions have been transferred.