Questions Regarding Quiz Questions and API Capabilities in Brightspace

Ahmed.B.4500

I am currently working on my paper, where I am investigating how to utilize Brightspace for generating quiz questions from an external application.
In this context, I have the following questions:

- Is there an API route available specifically for generating quiz questions? I have only found a route to create a quiz itself, but not for adding questions.
- Is there a test account (sandbox) available for us to conduct our tests?
- When uploading quiz questions, we can use a CSV or IMS QTI file? What should an IMS QTI file look like?

I appreciate your assistance and look forward to your response.

Chris.S.534

Hi Ahmed.B,

At this stage there are no APIs available to create quiz questions.

For API development and testing activities please contact your institutions Brightspace Administration team to see if a test/development Brightspace environment is available. Most, if not all D2L clients have access to a test environment.

Importing quiz questions through the UI in a file or package at the Course Offering level you have several options:

• IMS Common Cartridge 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3; IMS Thin Common Cartridge 1.3; QTI 1.2/1.21, see https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/17057-import-export-or-copy-course-components#about-importing-ims-common-cartridge-packages using the Import/Export/Copy Course Components tool
• 1EdTech’s Common Cartridge specification documentation, see https://www.1edtech.org/standards/cc
• QTI 1.2/1.21 you can find examples at https://www.1edtech.org/standards/qti/index#QTI%201.2
• .csv file import, see Import questions into the Question Library https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3411-import-questions-into-the-question-library

Hope that helps!