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title: "Copying Quizzes from One Course to Another"
canonical: "https://helpcentre.macewan.ca/space/ETS/2634481951/Copying%20Quizzes%20from%20%20One%20Course%20to%20Another"
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**AUDIENCE: ****FACULTY**** | ****STAFF**
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## Introduction
While this document refers to importing and exporting a *quiz*, the truth is that you are actually exporting and importing a question bank *category*. The questions from a particular question bank category are transferred from one course to another, and they are then used to assemble a new quiz.
Quizzes can be transferred from one course to another course with the Backup and Restore functions, but those processes work at the course level, so it can result in bringing over more material than you intended. Further, even when performed properly, using the Backup and Restore method to transfer a quiz from one course to another course transfers *the entire test bank*. If you transfer quizzes from course to course often, or if you share quizzes with colleagues, the test bank can eventually grow to the point that it cripples mêskanâs.
To both Export and Import a quiz, you must have a Teacher role in the course. If you want to transfer a quiz from one course to another, you must be a teacher in both the source and the destination courses. Alternatively, if you share a quiz with a colleague, you must be a teacher in the source course, and your colleague must be a teacher in the destination course, or vice versa.
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## Exporting the Question Bank Category
### Open the Quiz You Want to Transfer
From the course main page, click on the quiz you want to export, then click on the **Questions** tab.
### Check the Category of the Questions
Click on the question name to open that question.
When the question opens, check which category the question is saved in. You will need this information when you export the quiz questions.
### Locate the Question Bank Category
From the course’s main page, click on **More**, and then select Question bank.
Select export from the dropdown menu.
### Export the Questions
On the next screen, select **Moodle XML format**. Ensure that you have the correct **Export category** selected, and make sure that **Write category to file** and **Write context to file** are both checked. When everything is ready, click **EXPORT QUESTIONS TO FILE**.
The questions will download to your computer. If you are sharing these questions with colleagues, this file can be emailed to them. If you are transferring questions to another one of your own courses, you can just leave the file in your browser for now or save it in a file on your computer for safekeeping.
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## Importing the Question Bank Category
At this point, you have the questions copied from the source course. Now you must move them into the destination course.
In the destination course, go to the main page, click on **More**, and select **Question Bank**.
On the screen that appears, select **Import**.
On the next screen that appears, select **Moodle XML format**. Drag and drop the file you downloaded earlier into the upload box. If the file is saved on your computer, use the **Choose a file** function to locate the file and upload it. Finally, click **IMPORT**.
The screen that appears shows that you have successfully imported the questions into the destination course. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Continue (not pictured).
The next view shows the questions that are now housed in the question bank of the destination course. Note that the question category has been transferred to the destination course.
At this point, you need to create a new quiz in your destination course and import these questions into the quiz.
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## Adding Questions to a Quiz in the Destination Course
The final step in creating a quiz (explained in the **Quiz Setup** document) is to click the **SAVE AND DISPLAY** button at the bottom of the page. You will be brought to the page pictured below, where you start the process of adding questions. Click **Add question**.
First, set the **Maximum grade**. Then click **Save**.
Click **Add** to add a question.
In the menu that appears, choose **+ from question bank**.
After you click **+ from a question bank**, you will be presented with this screen. First, select the test bank category you want to choose questions from, then click **Apply Filters**.
Click the check box beside each question you want to add to your quiz. You can add multiple questions at once. To import all the questions from your selected category into your new quiz, you can click the check box beside the **T Question** heading above the questions. When you are finished, click **ADD SELECTED QUESTIONS TO THE QUIZ**.
The questions will be added to your quiz.
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