Changing Points on Test Questions

On your tests. Go ahead and pull the questions over as you’ve been doing.

Then you are going to export the test (not the pool). I’m assuming you’re ok with this part let me know if you need step by step.

When you export it you’ll get a zip file.

Here are the instructions from Bb. I think you’ll be fine with them. Let me know if you need clarification:

This is probably not something that the average instructor is going to do, but it could save a lot of time for REALLY big tests.

Since any individual test can be exported and imported - you can manipulate the text of the export file to update all the point values.

An exported test will have a file res00002.dat (may be res00001.dat) that is the XML representation of all the questions and answers in the test. Open this up with Notepad. Then do a find and replace.

The point values for each question will be isolated by tags.
A simple text replace can update all the point values.

The tags for a 10 point question look like this…

<qmd_absolutescore_max>10.0</qmd_absolutescore_max>

Search for this (change the 10.0 to what ever point value your test has on it to find it). Then change it to what you want it to be in the replace.

Zip all these files back up (don’t zip including the folder they were originally in, just select the files and zip them back up).

Import the test to the test area, your point values should be corrected.