Preparing your questions in Blackboard

  • Ensure each question has a Question Title specified, otherwise, they will be assigned unintuitive Question Names when imported into Inspera (e.g. "assessmentItem00001", "assessmentItem00002", etc.)
  • If a question has an image attached, remove the image in Blackboard before the transfer, then add the image back in after the question is transferred. Alternatively, remove the entire question that contains the image and recreate it in Inspera.

Add Questions to a Pool

If you have Tests in your Blackboard course site that you would like to transfer to Inspera, you first need to add the test questions to a Pool:

  1. In your Learn.UQ your course site, from the Course Management menu select Course ToolsTests, Survey and Pools 
  2. Click Pools
  3. Click the Build Pool button
  4. Give your pool a name
  5. Click Submit
  6. Click the Find Questions button
  7. Click Tests in the left menu
  8. Click the checkbox beside your test name to find questions. These will then appear on the right side of the page.
  9. Select the questions that you want to export (or click the checkbox at the top to select all)
  10. Click Submit
  11. Click OK

Export Question Pool as QTI Package

  1. Hover over the name of your Pool and a chevron will appear to the right of the name
  2. Click on the chevron
  3. Click Export QTI 2.1 Package
  4. The QTI package downloads as a ZIP archive to your computer

Importing a QTI Package into Inspera Assessment

  1. Log into the Admin area of the Inspera Production environment at https://uqi.inspera.com/admin
  2. Go to Author > Question Sets
  3. Click on the down arrow next to Create New and then click Import QTI from the drop-down menu.

  1. Navigate to your Downloads folder (or wherever your ZIP archive was saved to)
  2. Select the ZIP archive and click Open.
  3. A pop-up will appear. Select the radio button next to Create new
  4. Click Import Now
  5. Once you see a message indicating that the Question Set was imported, click Close
  6. Your imported questions will appear in a Question Set named after the Pool you created in Blackboard. Find it under Author > Question Sets.
  7. Open the Question Set and check each question to ensure they appear and function as expected.

Question Types that transfer successfully from Blackboard to Inspera

The table below shows the 5 question types that transfer successfully from Blackboard to Inspera, and the question type they are imported as:

Question Type in Blackboard

How the question imports into Inspera

Multiple Choice 

Multiple Choice 

Essay 

Essay 

Fill in the Blank*

Text Entry*

Multiple Answer 

Multiple Response 

True/False 

Multiple Choice 

Note: while Fill in the Blank questions will transfer, the following should be noted:

  • Correct answers don’t come across and will need to be specified again after transfer
  • Text entry fields need to be repositioned 

Question types that don't transfer successfully from Blackboard to Inspera

The table below shows question types that do not transfer from Blackboard to Inspera and will need to be re-created in Inspera. An equivalent alternative question type is proposed in the right column:

Blackboard Question

Recommended Inspera equivalent or closest match

Calculated Formula 

There is no question type to automatically generate values into the question, but you create several variations of a Numeric Entry question in a section and have one of these randomly pulled for each student. 

Calculated Numeric 

Numeric Entry 

Either/Or 

True/False                        

File Response 

Upload Assignment 

Fill in Multiple Blanks 

Text Entry 

Hot Spot 

Hot Spot 

Jumbled Sentence 

Inline Choice 

Matching 

Matching/Pairing or Multiple Choice 

Opinion Scale/Likert 

Form (unmarked) with Multiple Choice input 

Ordering 

Matching/Pairing or Drag and Drop 

Quiz Bowl 

There is no exact question type to match in Inspera, but you could achieve something similar with a Text Entry question 

Short Answer 

Essay