
  "WctBatch" WebCT->Moodle import script
  (c) 2005 Dan Stowell
  Released under the GNU Public Licence

  (This file contains notes about the released versions of the 
  scripts, and the known issues that are yet to be resolved.)

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0.5 - First released version to Moodle.org - 20th Oct 2005


Known issues:

* Question import is tricky. See below for the "state of play" with
    question import.
* The "hidden" status of items in the WebCT course is not 
    preserved.
* Conditional release of items in the WebCT course is not 
    preserved.
* Equations are converted to plain MathML, but when they appear 
    multiple times in the WebCT data they are back-referenced rather 
    than repeated - the script currently can't process the 
    back-references. (Also note that pure MathML is not correctly 
    displayed by most browsers at time of writing.)
* The order of items within a Moodle section can be arbitrary.
    This is only a minor issue, since it's so easy to reorganise 
    things in Moodle - it would be nice to preserve the 
    order though.
* Metadata import for Image Database is not yet robust.
    

State of play with question import:

* Calculated questions are CURRENTLY NOT IMPORTED.
* Short-answer questions import OK. 
    (Short-answers with more than one answer box are turned into 
    "Cloze"-type questions in order to display appropriately in 
    Moodle.)
* Multiple-choice questions import OK.
* Matching questions import OK.
* "Paragraph" questions do not have a good equivalent in Moodle. 
    They are turned into short-answer questions, but only in 
    order to preserve the rubric - they're not really useable.
* An image associated with a question seems not to import. I've 
    written code to import the image and it seems to populate the 
    database correctly, but there must be something I have failed
    to account for since the image doesn't display.
* Survey questions are imported, although since Moodle doesn't by
    default have a "survey mode" in its quiz tool, some work may 
    be needed to use them correctly in the Moodle course.
