Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Question Format)

Excellent plugin.

Hi Tobias,
I have re-published the English auto-installing Word template Zip file at http://www.moodle2word.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=54. You will need to register on the site, and enrol in the course "WordTable Question conversion" to download it. Hopefully this will stop Google et. al. marking the whole site as being dangerous.

Hi, can you reupload the template including the image conversion? Thanks a lot!

This problem affected all languages. A penalty value of 0% was not recognised, and the default of 33.3% used instead. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.17.

Hi there, I have reproduced this problem. I'll take a look at how to fix it.

Hi there,
I have i have encountered the following problem while exporting and re-importing a Moodle2Word file (greek version). I made a few dummy multiple choise questions on moodle and exported them with Microsoft Word 2010 table format (wordtable). I deleted the dummy ones and changed the text on the ones I exported. all went well went I imported them back but what i found is that the penalty for wrong answers has been changed to 33.333% while I had selected 0% in the begining. Any Idea why this is happening?

Hi Samuel,
this is a fair point. If it is any help, the file is digitally signed by the company I work for. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or knowledge to keep all the anti-virus programmes happy with these Word templates. However, I have now added the 2 individual Word templates contained inside the Zip file, so that you can download and copy them to the correct folders. As far as I can tell, these files do not trigger virus warnings (yet, at least). Instructions on where to place them are also included (cf. www.moodle2word.net). Hope this helps.
Eoin Campbell

Hi Eoin.
I uploaded the current version of the "moodle2WordInstaller_v3_4wd.docm" to Virustotal. 16 out of 58 antivirus-engines showed an alert (mostly for W97M.Bendis.BI, but also for Doc.Dropper.Agent-1669370 and a few others). Since Word-macros are now frequently used to distribute malware, I'm very much wondering whether it is safe to use the document...
Best,
Samuel

Hi there, unfortunately this is an issue I cannot resolve. It arises when you use the built-in commands "Preview Current Question" or "Import All Questions" in the Word template to import or preview questions from within Word itself by uploading them to your Moodle site. If this happens, the only way around it is to use a browser to log in to Moodle, and upload the Word file directly from within the browser, using the course "Question bank > Questions > Import" command.

Hello Eoin Sir,
I am getting this error "unable to upload file, no repository identified"

Quick question: When the exported questions have images, I need to convert that file to docx and additionally click on the "convert images" button right?

Hi Eoin
I sent you an email. Thanks!

Hi Violeta, it looks you've successfully exported questions to Word, and now you want to convert the image data back into real images. The first screenshot indicates that you have installed the 'safe' version of the Word template which doesn't contain the macro, but instead displays the warning message "Image Conversion has been disabled due to Windows Defender issues". I'm not sure what operation you attempted that produced the error message in the 2nd screenshot "This is not a valid file name". Please contact me directly and we can try and track it down.

Hi Eoin,
Well, yes. The questions have images. Not all of them but many of them (360 questions). These are the errors I am getting: http://prntscr.com/epwvk7
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If you just want to migrate the questions to a different Moodle server, export them to Moodle Question XML format instead. It is much simpler.
If you have an image in every question, then I suspect the exported file will be too large for Word to process. You would need to break up the output by exporting smaller numbers of questions. If all your questions are in 1 category, you'll need to split them into multiple categories and export each one separately.
Finally, if you export the questions OK, then you still need to post-process the Word file after saving it as .docx format in order to convert the image data back into images. You can download a Word template to do this from http://www.moodle2word.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=12. Unfortunately, Windows Defender believes this template contains a virus, as the code to convert base64 image data into a real image is incorrectly considered to be a virus. If running Windows 10, you would need to turn off virus-checking to download and run it.