How Import / Export Quiz Questions to Drupal

Import/Export Quiz Module Questions

I have been asked this question several times so I thought it is better to write a blog on this subject.

If you are running a quiz / online exam-related site powered by the Quiz module, it is likely that you will have a pool of questions and you might want to import that into Drupal or move those questions from one Drupal site to another. We have done this several times as a part of our projects. The solution depends on the specific use case.

Assume you have questions in XLS/CSV format or you think it is affordable to create questions in these formats and then import the same to Drupal. For this case, the Quiz Questions Import module is the way to go. Though this module is minimal in feature now, it does the job as expected. There is a proposal and discussions going on with our clients to rearchitect this module to work on the top Feeds module. We believe this would help us to come out with a more robust and extendable module for questions import. Keep in touch with us if you are interested in doing in line with this.

In another case, if you have questions already created in one Drupal site and want to move the same to another site of the same version then Node Export is a handy module to get your work done. The quiz module leverages the advantage of a node in Drupal. A question is a node of a specific type (multichoice, true-false, etc.,). This makes it possible to seem less to export and import questions from one site to another. Besides, there are modules like Node clone and Add another -- which help to create a variant of the existing question with the least effort.

Hope this will help and address the clarification needed for common use cases.