Importing Quizzes directly into Questionmark Perception using list styles
July 17, 2003
Elearning | Questionmark Perception

Since we have no Questionmark Perception manuals at my office, most of my knowledge of Questionmark comes from trying out things in the application itself or digging around in the questionably organized Questionmark support site. (Any altruistic Info-Architects need a project?)

While so engaged one day, looking for an answer to something else, I found out I could have been importing multiple choice quizzes using Microsoft Word documents! Fortunately I haven't done too many so far. Here are the directions:

The document must be formatted as a list.

Each question is a level 1 line, each choice is a level 2 (indent once). There should be no excess copy in the document, just

1. Question a. choice 1 b. choice 2 c. choice 3 d. choice 4

2. Question
a. choice 1
b. choice 2
c. choice 3
d. choice 4


etc.


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Posted by ellen at July 17, 2003 10:42 AM
Select All. Choose Format: Bullets and Numbering In the dialog that comes up, click the Customize button.


For Level 1 (Questions), make the bullet <Q>
For Level 2 (Choices), make it <C>
Set the Number and Text postions to 0".

Hit OK.
All the bullets will be changed to the QML markers you have just defined.

<Q> Question <C> choice 1 <C> choice 2 <C>. choice 3 <C> choice 4

<Q> Question
<C> choice 1
<C> choice 2
<C> choice 3
<C> choice 4

Change all the "correct" choice markers to
<C+>
Save as a text file.

In Question Manager in Perception choose the topic into which you wish to import the questions.

Select File: Import: ASCII and select your text file. Hit the "Import" button.

More detailed instructions are available to registered users on the Questionmark Support site in Knowledge Base Document ID "ques027".


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