Quiz Converter: Turn a Video into a Canvas, Brightspace, D2L, Moodle or Blackboard Quiz File

How do you convert a quiz to QTI for Canvas?

Export the quiz as a QTI 1.2 package, then in Canvas open Settings, choose Import Course Content, set the content type to QTI .zip file, attach the package and pick or create a question bank. Canvas reads the manifest inside the zip, creates the questions in the bank, and reports anything it could not map.

The mistake that wastes the most time here is uploading a loose .xml file. Canvas checks for an imsmanifest.xml at the root of the package first, and a bare assessment file has no manifest, so the importer rejects it without a useful message. The export from VidQuiz is already a proper package with the manifest in place.

One thing worth knowing before you import: Canvas puts imported questions into a question bank, not directly into a live quiz. You still create the quiz and pull questions from the bank, which is usually what you want anyway because it lets you randomize from a larger pool.

Is there a Brightspace or D2L quiz converter?

Yes, and the same QTI 1.2 package works. In Brightspace go to the course, open Assessments, then Quizzes, then Question Library, choose Import and Upload a File, and select the zip. The questions land in the library where you can sort them into sections before building a quiz from them.

Brightspace and D2L are the same product, which is why both names show up in searches for a converter. D2L is the company, Brightspace is the platform, and a file that imports into one imports into the other. Several universities publish their own Brightspace quiz converter for staff, which tells you how routine this need is and how little the platform does to meet it.

Can you convert quiz questions into Moodle?

Moodle imports questions through GIFT, a plain text format it defines itself. Export the GIFT file, then in your Moodle course open the question bank, choose Import, select GIFT format, upload the .txt and import. The questions appear in the bank ready to attach to a quiz activity.

What trips people up is assuming Moodle takes QTI because everything else does. It does not, and it has no CSV question importer either. If you have been handed a QTI package and you run Moodle, you need the questions regenerated or rewritten as GIFT. The other half of the problem is that GIFT treats the characters tilde, equals, hash, curly braces, colon and backslash as syntax, so any of those inside your question text has to be escaped with a backslash or the import fails or, worse, silently mangles the question.

Does a quiz converter work for Blackboard?

Yes, but not through QTI. Blackboard's QTI importer is documented for QTI 2.1 and for the Original Course View only, so the 1.2 package written for Canvas is the wrong file to hand it. Export the tab delimited .txt instead and use Upload Questions inside a test, which is supported in the Ultra Course View as well as Original.

If your institution has moved to Ultra and the QTI route is blocked, the practical fallback is the PDF export plus manual entry for a short test, or asking your administrator to run the import at the course level. That is worth checking before you generate anything, because it changes which export you want.

What if the questions are already in a CSV, Word or text file?

Then VidQuiz is not the tool you want, and it is worth saying so plainly. It reads video and audio, not documents. If you already have a finished question set in a spreadsheet or a Word file and you only need it transcoded to QTI, look at your own institution's teaching and learning site first, because many campuses host exactly that tool for their staff, or at the open source text2qti project, which builds Canvas ready QTI from plain text questions.

Where VidQuiz earns its place is the case those tools do not cover: you have a recorded lecture, a training session, a webinar or a screen capture, and no question set at all. That is the expensive half, and it is the half a transcoder cannot help with.

If the source material is a PDF or a slide deck rather than a recording, that is a different tool again, and a document to quiz generator is what you want.

Why do so many universities host their own quiz converter?

Because the format is standardized and the tooling never was. QTI has been an interoperability standard since the early 2000s, and every major LMS reads some version of it, but none of them shipped an easy way for an instructor to produce one. So instructional technology teams filled the gap themselves, one campus at a time, usually as a small web form that takes plain text and returns a zip.

That history is useful context when you are choosing a tool. It means the import path is genuinely reliable once the file is correct, and it means the friction has always been in producing the file rather than in the LMS accepting it. Any converter that gets the package structure right will import. The differences between tools are in what they ask you to supply first.