Hilgartner Open Learning

With the aim of creating adaptive learning, as an instructional designer, developer and facilitator, you need to create test items and plenty of them. With Moodle as your LMS, you need to find an efficient way to do so, some rapid development best practice, so you can maintain quality and stay alive. In such a scenario, I have been working on General Education Development courses with mathematics, reading and writing content at a grade 10 level creating exercises, quizzes, practice tests, pre-tests, and post-tests using the Moodle Question Bank. I have been taking scanned and OCR (optical character recognition) processed texts, with copyright permissions, and importing them into the Question Bank. With each quiz or test, there is a fair bit of work to be done, but the import still beats re-entering or re-creating these hundreds of items in terms of time and energy. The first step is to open the PDF version of the text and begin copying the text to a Notepad file. To do so in Acro...