With the GIFT file format, you can easily import questions in bulk into an assessment. Here's how to do it.
The GIFT file format explained
A GIFT file is a type of text file that contains formatted questions which you can easily import to Claned with just a few clicks. Our system automatically reads the file and inserts the questions into the quiz. This feature is particularly handy if you want to reuse sets of questions across various assessments. GIFT files support True-False, Single answer multiple choice, and multiple answer multiple choice questions. Open answer type questions are not supported, so you'll have to add them manually to the quiz.
GIFT files are actually just .txt files, so make sure you save the file with the .txt file-type extension (eg. "My GIFT File.txt"). Each question in a GIFT file should have a question text as well as the answer(s) to the question. Below is an example of the structure of the file with the various question types. Feel free to use this as a template, just copy-paste it into an empty .txt file and save it.
// True-False
The sun rises in the east.{T}
// Single answer multiple choice
Who invented the theory of general relativity?
{~Newton ~Plato =Einstein}
// Multiple answer multiple choice
What two people are entombed in Grant's tomb? {~No one =Grant =Grant's wife ~Grant's father}
The text after the slashes are comments that can be used for annotating questions for your own use, for example. The are not used in the actual quiz.
The text below the comment is the actual question question text, which will be shown to learners when they take the quiz.
The text within the curly braces "{} " are the answer choices. In the case of True-False questions, insert a T or F into the braces (True and False respectively). For multiple choice questions, insert the answer choices into the braces, and put an equals sign "=" for correct answers or tilde "~" for incorrect answers to the beginning of the answer choice.
It's that simple! With this knowledge, you can build your own GIFT file and take the manual work off your shoulders.
1. Open your board and click the "Add content" button
2. Click on the assessment button
3. Click on "Make an assessment"
4. Click on the "Questions" tab
5. Click on the three dots one the right-hand side of the page
6. Click on "Add questions from file"
7. Click "Upload GIFT file" and select the file with the answers you want to upload
