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Export and Import of Assessment
Introduction
WebCTs Help for: Importing Content, German Version, French Version.
WebCTs Help for: Exporting Assessments, German Version, French Version.
This page provides you with a step by step instruction to the importing and exporting of assessment. Further information can be found in Part 4, Chapter 7, Sect: "Exporting and Importing Assessment" in Designers and Instructors Reference, Vista 4 p. 141 (pdf, 2.3 MB). Get UN & PW at edutech Vista Support.
Exporting an Assessment
When you export an assessment, its contents are also exported, along with its settings, and any linked files. For example, when you export a quiz, the questions it contains, the question categories they belong to, and any content files, such as graphics files are also exported. If the categories do not already exist in the Questions Database that they are imported into, they are created.
You can export multiple assessments to one content package.
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- From the Assessments screen do one of the following:
- To export one assessment, next to the assessment you want to export, click the ActionLinks icon. A menu appears.
- To export multiple assessments, next to each assessment you want to export, select the check box.
- Click Export. The Content Browser pop-up window appears.
When you export assessments, they export as a content package and are saved in a zip file. The content package includes XML files, XML schema files (.xsd files), and any image files (for example, .jpg files) used in the questions in the assessment. - Navigate to the location where you want to save the zip file. For more information, see Navigating with Content Browser.
- In the Save as text box, enter a name for the zip file and click OK.
Note: We recommend you use all lowercase letters for file names. - The Export Progress screen appears, listing details of the export in progress. When the export is complete, the Export Log screen appears.
The zip file is saved in the location you specified. If you are going to import the assessments to another WebCT installation, you must download the zip file to your computer first. - Click Return. The course entry screen appears.
Import an Assessment
You can import the following types of assessments:
- quizzes, surveys, and self-tests
- quizzes and surveys exported from WebCT Campus Edition courses
- Respondus & assessments
When you import an assessment, it is automatically added to the Assessments tool and the questions in the assessment are automatically added to the correct category in the Question Database tool. If the category does not already exist, it is created. The assessment's settings and any linked files are also imported.
WARNING:- If you have imported questions from a section and have changed them, re-importing the same questions from that section will overwrite your changes. For example, you import an assessment called "Assessment" that contains "Question 1." You go to the Question Database tool and reword the content of "Question 1." You import another quiz from the same section called "Assessment 2" that also contains "Question 1." "Question 1" in the new content package overwrites the "Question 1" that you modified. The same is true for assessments.
- You can import assessments and questions with duplicate titles; however, you must give each a unique title before you change them.
- Navigate to the Manage Course screen. Under Designer Tools, click Manage Course. The Manage Course screen appears.
- Click Import. The Content Browser pop-up window appears.
- Locate and select the export-zip file containing the content you want to import.
- Finish the procedure with OK. The Content Import in Progress screen appears, listing details of the import in progress.
- Come back with Return.
- The imported Assessment can now be found in the Learning Modules Screen.
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