Media utilities

Free quiz format converter (GIFT, Aiken, CSV)

Paste quiz questions in any common arrangement and get Moodle GIFT, Aiken, CSV, or clean plain text back.

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What it does

What the converter does

It reads common quiz layouts and writes a format that an LMS can import.

Forgiving input

Numbered questions, lettered choices, starred answers, "Correct answer:" lines, and Aiken all parse.

Correct GIFT escaping

The characters that break GIFT imports: braces, equals, tildes: are escaped for you.

Honest Aiken export

Aiken carries only single-answer multiple choice; anything else is listed as skipped, not mangled.

How to use it

How to convert a quiz

Paste the quiz: from a document, another tool, or the quiz generators on this site.
Select Convert quiz.
Switch between GIFT, Aiken, CSV, and plain text.
Copy the output, or download the file and import it into your LMS.

In depth

GIFT, Aiken, and why imports fail

Moodle and compatible LMS products import questions in two text formats. Aiken uses a question, lettered choices, and an ANSWER line with the correct letter. GIFT uses braces, equals signs, and tildes to mark answers, feedback, and special question types.

Aiken requires the exact word ANSWER in capitals and supports only single-answer multiple choice. GIFT assigns special meaning to braces, equals signs, colons, and tildes. The converter escapes these characters and applies the required syntax.

The parser accepts numbered or unnumbered questions, choices with letters or dashes, and several answer markers. It also reads this site’s quiz exports, so video quiz generator output can go to the LMS converter.

CSV rounds out the trio for the tools that want a spreadsheet: question, choices, correct answer, and explanation in labelled columns.

Questions

Common questions

What input does the parser understand?

Numbered questions with lettered or dashed choices; correct answers marked with a star, an inline "correct answer" note, a "Correct answer:" line, or an Aiken ANSWER line; optional explanation lines. Blocks separate on blank lines.

Why were some questions skipped in the Aiken output?

Aiken can only express single-answer multiple choice. Open-response questions and any question without a marked correct answer are listed as skipped so you can handle them separately.

Does the GIFT output include feedback?

Yes: explanation lines become GIFT general feedback, and all special characters are escaped so the import parses cleanly.

Does this work with the quiz generators on this site?

Directly. Copy any quiz from the video quiz, training quiz, or multiple choice generators and paste it here for the LMS-ready version.

Related tools

Keep the momentum

These tools share engines and hand off to each other.

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Mindstamp asks the questions inside the video and scores each learner: then exports the whole thing to your LMS as SCORM.

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Works on the video you already have. No re-encoding.