Proper documentation for CSV file format for questions, please.

Michael.Anderson43

I've found the generic document available from within the import function of BS itself. I've also found identical copies of that elsewhere on the internet (re-posted by other educational institutions using BS). But I need some serious documentation so that I can import a large quantity of existing questions and generate additional questions (of all types) in software.

 

I searched the forum and found a related thread that over a year old, and there was someone from D2L that said the documentation would be updated. I'm hoping this happened by now.

 

As examples of serious omissions from the existing document:

 

- for "match" type questions, it shows the option

 "Scoring EquallyWeighted", but what are the other choices

 for the Scoring??

 

- for multiple answer questions (aka "multi-select"), it shows

 the option "Scoring RightAnswers", but what about something like

 scoring of "right-minus-wrong"?? What's the required keyword(s)

 

- for Short Answer questions, the document shows an attribute:

 "InputBox 3 40". What do the numbers mean? What other options exist?

 

- using BS normally, I can create Short Answer questions with

 multiple short answers (e.g What is your /first/ and /last/ name?

 ... and have two answer boxes. What is the CSV format for this?

 

Thanks!