I've always found the quiz feature in Moodle to be a little complicated, but if you create your quiz in the right format outside of Moodle using a text editor, it's very easy to import it and get everything set up pretty quickly. The key is to use one of the quiz formats that Moodle can read and to save that file in the UTF-8 file format. Many text editors will allow you to save in UTF-8. Once you've done this, you can import the quiz and everything will be added with no copying and pasting required. I like the Aiken file format. I don't believe that it was developed by Clay Aiken, the singer from American Idol, but who knows. The Moodle help pages explain the Aiken format in enough detail to get going: You just need to make each question in your quiz look like one of these two and everything will go smoothly. What is the correct answer to this question? A. Is it this one? B. Maybe this answer? C. Possibly this one? D. Must be this one! ANSWER: D Which LMS has
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