The text encoding of your text file must be utf-8 (unless you only use ascii characters). An example questions text file can be found here: gift/examples.txt.
+Each individual question in the GIFT file must not contain any blank lines. Each question is delimited by + at least one blank line. If you need to represent a blank line in your question you can use + the entity \n. You can use comments wherever you wish but they must start with two forward + slashes (//) at the start of the line.
Note that the last two examples are essentially the same question, first as multiple choice and then as short answer.
Note that it is possible to specify percentage answer weights that are NOT - available through the browser interface. Such answer-weights will calculate correctly - (according to the value assigned when imported), and will appear normal to students taking the test. - But such answer-weights will not display correctly to teachers when editing them through Moodle's - Edit Question interface. The pull-down menu only allows certain fixed values, and if the answer-weight - does not exactly match one of those predetermined values, then it will not display correctly. - If you edit such a question through the browser interface, the answer weight will change to that displayed.
+ available through the browser interface. The Match Grades drop-down on the import + page determines how these are handled. You can either request that an error be reported + or that the answer weight be adjusted to the nearest valid answer weight.Specify text-formatting for the question
The question text (only) may have an optional text format specified. Currently the available formats are