ANGEL Tip: Copying and Pasting Questions from Word into ANGEL

Do you have paper exams that you wrote in Word and you wish there was an easy way to get them into ANGEL? Well, there is!

The first step is to get your exam into the proper format. Make sure you don’t have any headers or other info in your exam (that is, in the Word document). Each question should begin with a number and a period, followed by the question text. Then each answer option should be on its own line and begin with a letter and a period. On the next line, you type “ANSWER:” followed by the correct answer. Then skip a line and begin the next question. For example:

1. What is a baby llama called?
A. kid
B. cria
C. calf
D. foal
ANSWER: B

Once you have your exam in this format, highlight the whole exam and copy it to your clipboard (right-click > Copy or CTRL-C). Log in to ANGEL and go to your course. Create an assessment and click on Add Question. Choose Copy and Paste Questions. Delete the default text (in the box at the top of the screen) and paste in your exam (right-click > Paste or CTRL-V). Change the number of points in the Default Settings to the desired number of points per question and then click OK.

If your exam was formatted correctly, you will see all the questions appear on your exam. If there were errors in your formatting, the process will fail and you will need to discover where the errors in your file are.

Note: You can also start each question in your Word file with a “Q:” rather than a number and a period, but this is not required. If your questions are numbered, don’t change them all to Q’s!

Just for emphasis, you can either begin each question with “Q:” or a number followed by a period, such as “1.” But, there’s no need to change it to a Q, but if you do please note that the Q needs to be followed by a colon rather than a period.

In most cases you’ll use the optional ANSWER and POINTS settings, the other optional settings are rarely used.

If you get an error message, the most common cause is extra spaces (such as putting two spaces between the letter of a choice and the text, such as “a. answer choice”) or an extra carriage return between questions (there should only be one blank line between the end of one question and the beginning of the next, and no blank lines between the question text and the answer choices for that question).

Just for clarity: Your questions can be in a Word or other text document and the text of each question should conform to the following specifications.

1. Each question should begin on a new line.
2. The first line of each question should start with 'Q:' or the question number followed by a period ('1.', 2.', '3.', etc.).
3. If the question has choices the choices should immediately follow the question text.
4. Each choice should be on a line by itself.
5. Each choice should begin with a choice letter followed by a period ('A.', 'B.', 'C.', etc.).

There are optional settings that may be added to add the number of points, include an image, or feedback. Fort details, check the iTeach Online ANGEL manual or check the online Help under assessments.