Principal Investigator: Thomas Garbelotti, Director of Humanities Technology
Methods and/or Tools: Instructional Design; Development
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(QB)2, or the “Question Bank Quick Builder,” is a Google Sheet Add-on developed at UCLA’s Humanities Technology to reduce the labor for instructors creating digital assessments. By translating text content from a properly formatted spreadsheet into XML, (QB)2 makes it much easier for instructors to create Moodle quizzes.
Instructors can write their questions and answers in plain text, all visible and editable on a single page, which cuts down question creation time and reduces the risk of duplicate or improperly formatted questions. As it is Google based, (QB)2 handles non-western characters easily.
Once complete, (QB)2 transforms this content into an XML document, which the instructor can then easily import into Moodle to build their quizzes.
This tool was developed by the following team at UCLA
- Lillian Hawasli, Humanities Instructional Programmer
- Thomas Garbelotti, Humanities Instructional Technology Manager
- Benjamin Niedzielski, Research and Instructional Technology Consultant
- Amy Zhao, Student Programmer
- Jakin Wang, Student Programmer
- Rockford Mankini, Student Programmer