Importing questions through Aiken format

An example of Aike n Format im porting file

Overview:

This guide will show you how to import multiple choice questions through an Aiken Format importing file.

What to know:

Aiken Format is a simple format for importing multiple choice questions from a text file.

Hint:

It only supports multiple choice questions with one option as the correct answer .

Write your questions in a word-processing application (e.g., MS Word) or a text editor such as Notepad (Windows) or Text Edit (Mac OS X), under the following format:

1. Question text: the question must be all in one line.
2. Options:
   • Start with a single uppercase letter;
   • Followed by a period "." or a right parenthesis ")", then space, e.g. 'A. ' or 'A) ';
3. Correct answer: The answer line must immediately follow, starting with "ANSWER: " (with a space after the colon) and then give the letter for the correct answer.
   Note: The word "ANSWER" and the answer letters (A,B,C etc.) must be capitalized as shown, otherwise the import will fail.

1. Click 'Save as' to save your file
2. Choose to save the file as a '.txt' (plain text) file
3. Choose the encoding format to be UTF-8 format .

Please see the article  Import questions from word file   to upload the file and import the questions.

For the first step of importing a file, choose the file format 'Aiken format', and then follow the screenshot below to finish the rest of the steps.