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Moodle Help & Support 

This refers to Moodle 3.4 from December 2018 onwards

How to: transfer questions for quizzes between Moodle modules

Exporting the questions from a module

  1. Go into the module with the questions you want to export.
  2. Find the ADMINISTRATION block and click on Module administration > Question bank > Export


  3. Select the Moodle XML format


  4. Click on the Export questions to file button
  5. Your export file should start to download. If it doesn’t, click as indicated on the download page to download the file.
  6. Save the file to a folder on your hard drive (it may go into Downloads by default)

Importing the questions into another module

  1. Go into the module in Moodle into which you want the questions added.
  2. Find the ADMINISTRATION block and click on Module administration > Question bank > Import
  3. Select the Moodle XML format.
  4. EITHER:
    • Drag and drop the Question bank file you just downloaded into the box
      OR
    • Click on Choose a file to load the file picker
    • Click on Upload a file and then Browse for the file you downloaded earlier and click on Upload this file.
  5. Click the Import button
  6. Then click Continue to complete the process of importing the questions


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