Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Question Format)

Import questions (including images and equations) from structured tables in a Word file (.docx format) into a course question bank, and also export questions to a Word file, allowing for round-trip editing.
This plugin allows quiz questions to be imported from a Word file into Moodle. You can quickly write lots of questions in structured Word tables far more easily than in Moodle directly. The plugin also imports tables, images, and equations (when created using the Microsoft Office Equation Editor, not MathType/Wiris or the old Equation 3.0 editor). Equations are converted into MathML on import and displayed using the MathJax filter. You can also export questions from the Moodle question bank into structured tables in Word.
The table structure for each question supports all the question components (stem, answer options, option-specific and general feedback, hints, tags and question meta-data such as penalties, grades and other options). All the main question types except Numerical and Calculated questions are fully supported. Numerical and Calculated questions are exported, but cannot be imported.
The Cloze question syntax is particularly useful, as it does not require any knowledge of the arcane Moodle syntax; instead, use bold for drop-down menu items, and italic for fill-in text fields. See attached screenshot for an example.
Language support
Exported questions are labelled in the language of the current Moodle user interface, and the spell-check language is also set to the correct language. Similarly, questions can be imported in the same language, not just English. Both left-to-right and right-to-left languages (such as Arabic and Hebrew) are supported.
Equation support (import only)
Equations written using the Microsoft Equation Editor in Word can be imported into Moodle as MathML. This MathML is rendered within Moodle using the MathJax filter.  Note that MathML equations in questions are not exported in a usable way.
Supporting Word templates
Word templates to go with the plugin can be downloaded from the demonstration website  www.Moodle2Word.net , and are available for Word 2007 and 2010 (Windows), and Word 2011 (MacOSX).
Installation
The plugin can be installed by a Moodle Administrator using the standard Moodle plugin installation process .
Pre-requisites
Check that your Moodle installation supports XSLT, and ideally HTMLTidy too. Log in as Administrator, go to Site Administration -> Server -> PHP info, and view the PHP configuration. Look for the package details for ‘xsl’. If they are not present, then you will need to re-configure PHP and re-start the server.
To enable XSLT and HTMLTidy on a Windows Moodle server, open your PHP configuration file (e.g. d:winmoodle2serverphpphp.ini on Windows) and uncomment the lines containing “extension=php_xsl.dll”. and “extension=php_tidy.dll” by removing the semi-colon before them, if present.
On Linux platforms, you may need to create a symbolic link from the file , /etc/php5/apache2/mods-available/xsl.ini to  , or /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/20-xsl.ini . Change directory to /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/, and u se the command ‘sudo ln -s ../../mods-available/xsl.ini 20-xsl.ini’. Alternatively, create a file /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/xsl.ini containing the line
extension=xsl.so
Configuration instructions
Go to any course question bank that contains at least 1 question, and choose the Export option.
The File format list should contain the new option ‘Microsoft Word table format’. Select this item, and choose any question category containing some questions.