GIFT format

The GIFT format (hereinafter, the Format) is a file format to transfer question banks from and to learning management systems. Many learning management systems such as Adobe Captivate support this Format.

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History

As a part of the Moodle community, Paul Shew initially developed this Format in 2003 as missing-word questions' import filter. According to the Moodle community,

This filter was written through the collaboration of numerous members of the Moodle community. It was originally based on the simple missingword format. In July 2003, Thomas Robb wrote the original code for the percentage answer weight parser and comment insertion. Paul Tsuchido Shew rewrote the filter in December 2003 incorporating community suggestions for a more robust question format, and adding the question name parser and additional question types.

Name

GIFT is the acronym for general import format template.

Instead of adding question slides in Adobe Captivate manually, you can choose to directly import question banks from GIFT files. Creating GIFT format files and importing questions from them is useful if you have to add large number of questions in your courses.

GIFT stands for General Import Format Technology using which you can create questions using plain text. These files can be saved as text files and can be imported into Adobe Captivate or Moodle.

https://docs.moodle.org/38/en/GIFT_format