Questions Regarding Quiz Questions and API Capabilities in Brightspace
Ahmed.B.4500
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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.
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.
Best Answer
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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 using the Import/Export/Copy Course Components tool
- 1EdTech’s Common Cartridge specification documentation, see
- QTI 1.2/1.21 you can find examples at
- .csv file import, see Import questions into the Question Library
Hope that helps!