New Moodle plugin for IMS Question and Test Interoperability specification (QTI)

Abstract

In the ESF project "StudiPortal Brandenburg", eight Brandenburg universities, colleges and the Brandenburg Study Orientation Network are working together on the development of a portal for study orientation, preparation and support. An important part of the project is to store questions from different systems in a question exchange database and make it accessible for all project partners. Since there is currently no well-functioning option for this, we decided to develop an extension for integration into our question exchange platform. For this purpose, a new Moodle plugin was developed at BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg that converts questions from the QTI 2.1 standard into Moodle XML and vice versa. The aim was to convert as many question types as possible free of loss. For this purpose, questions from various systems that work with the QTI standard were made available and tested for the possibility of lossless conversion. The result is the prototype of a plugin that can convert eight different question types. In this article we present the first prototype of the plugin.