[Building Sakai] autosave

[David C. Minugh]

If you're thinking of possible features in coming 
versions of Sakai, excuse a probably naive request,  as 
there may already be solutions to this problem.

We're in the process of rolling over a lot of questions 
into a pool for a vocabulary test. Through a roundabout 
procedure via dumping questions through several stages, 
including Excel, I was able to do so earlier, but it 
involved reopening every question and reworking the 
format, which was incredibly time-consuming. I would 
have expected Sakai to be able to swallow a file done 
in Office (Word) and keep much of its formatting, or to 
provide some sort of template that could be reasonably 
filled via e.g. Excel.

A previous request to the Sakai lists a year ago led to 
confirmation that there was no easy way to import 
hundreds of questions en masse. Did I miss something? 
Or is there an obvious third-party solution that 
creates and formats test questions and rolls them over 
into T&Q in Sakai? As my programming skills are 
non-existent, I need an out-of-the-box solution that 
doesn't involve writing dedicated scripts or the like.

T & Q offers a major chance for students to practice 
basic skills, and at least here at SU I think it is 
grossly underused, not least because it's so hard to 
put Q into it quickly and easily.

Yrs,
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