Moodle teachers – Use the FastTest plugin to create Moodle Questions in Excel

Moodle LMS is one of the most popular open-source Learning Management system (LMS) in the world. It is used by more than 360 million users across 242 countries. In this post we will discuss about the FastTest Moodle plugin which allows you to easily write most of the Moodle Question types in Microsoft Excel.

The FastTest Plugin is essentially a Utility which allows you to write Moodle Questions in Microsoft Excel. After writing the questions, you can export them in xml format and then import in Moodle question bank. To use the FastTest plugin, you should have the Microsoft Excel Desktop app as the web version will not work. Also you need to allow the permission to use Macro’s in Excel.

You can download the FastTest plugin from the official Moodle plugins repository here. The download package includes many files which serves different purpose as below:

• FastTest – PlugIn.xlsm (executable with macros)
• FastTest – DataBase.xlsx (file necessary to export the questions and save backup copies in an orderly manner)
• FastTest – DataBase – Example.xlsx (file with sample questions, written in Spanish)
• MOODLE.xml (file necessary for MAC users to generate the file to import into Moodle).
• FastTest – Game.xls (file to export Multiple Choice 1 Correct Answer questions to a game.

You need to go through the FastTest Plugin.xlsm file and start creating your questions. With this utility plugin you will be able to focus more on writing your questions instead of navigating through various pages.

Once you have written them in the plugin, the XML file is generated, just by pressing a button. To upload the question bank in Moodle, you only need to import the XML file to the platform.

What are the other creative ways you are using to create Questions for your Moodle course? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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