excel2moodle User Guide

The User Reference (table of contents below) gives a structured overview over the supported question Types and the tags that need to be filled out int the spreadsheet to produce them. The How-To section on the other hand gives a step-by-step explanation from filling the spreadsheet, to importing it to moodle.

excel2moodle Module documentation

This Python program helps to create Moodle questions in less time.

The aim is to put alle the information for the questions into a spreadsheet file, and then parse it, to generate Moodle compliant XML-Files. Furthermore this program lets you create a single .xml-File with a selection of questions, that then can be imported to a Moodle-Test.

Concept

The concept is, to store the different questions into categories of similar types and difficulties of questions, for each of which, a separated sheet in the Spreadsheet document should be created.

There Should be a sheet called “Kategorien”, where an overview over the different categories is stored. This sheet stores The names and descriptions, for all categories. The name have to be the same as the actual sheet names with the questions. Furthermore the points used for grading, are set in the “Kategorien” sheet

Functionality

  • Parse multiple Choice Questions, each into one XML file

  • Parse Numeric Questions, each into one XML file

  • create single XML File from a selection of questions

excel2moodle.isMainState()[source]
Return type:

bool

API documentation

Indices and Tables