diff --git a/question/format/blackboard_six/formatqti.php b/question/format/blackboard_six/formatqti.php
index 744456c4723..2c7b7200de4 100644
--- a/question/format/blackboard_six/formatqti.php
+++ b/question/format/blackboard_six/formatqti.php
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ class qformat_blackboard_six_qti extends qformat_blackboard_six_base {
         }
 
         $questions = array();
+
+        // Treat the assessment title as a category title.
+        $this->process_category($xml, $questions);
+
         // First step : we are only interested in the <item> tags.
         $rawquestions = $this->getpath($xml,
                 array('questestinterop', '#', 'assessment', 0, '#', 'section', 0, '#', 'item'),
@@ -871,6 +875,21 @@ class qformat_blackboard_six_qti extends qformat_blackboard_six_base {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Add a category question entry based on the assessment title
+     * @param array $xml the xml tree
+     * @param array $questions the questions already parsed
+     */
+    public function process_category($xml, &$questions) {
+        $title = $this->getpath($xml, array('questestinterop', '#', 'assessment', 0, '@', 'title'), '', true);
+
+        $dummyquestion = new stdClass();
+        $dummyquestion->qtype = 'category';
+        $dummyquestion->category = $this->cleaninput($this->clean_question_name($title));
+
+        $questions[] = $dummyquestion;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Strip the applet tag used by Blackboard to render mathml formulas,
      * keeping the mathml tag.
diff --git a/question/format/blackboard_six/tests/blackboardsixformatqti_test.php b/question/format/blackboard_six/tests/blackboardsixformatqti_test.php
index f7627c0d58e..46a2d05ed06 100644
--- a/question/format/blackboard_six/tests/blackboardsixformatqti_test.php
+++ b/question/format/blackboard_six/tests/blackboardsixformatqti_test.php
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class qformat_blackboard_six_qti_test extends question_testcase {
 
         $importer = new qformat_blackboard_six();
         $questions = $importer->readquestions($xml);
-        $q = $questions[3];
+        $q = $questions[4];
 
         $expectedq = new stdClass();
         $expectedq->qtype = 'match';
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class qformat_blackboard_six_qti_test extends question_testcase {
 
         $importer = new qformat_blackboard_six();
         $questions = $importer->readquestions($xml);
-        $q = $questions[1];
+        $q = $questions[2];
 
         $expectedq = new stdClass();
         $expectedq->qtype = 'multichoice';
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class qformat_blackboard_six_qti_test extends question_testcase {
 
         $importer = new qformat_blackboard_six();
         $questions = $importer->readquestions($xml);
-        $q = $questions[2];
+        $q = $questions[3];
 
         $expectedq = new stdClass();
         $expectedq->qtype = 'multichoice';
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ class qformat_blackboard_six_qti_test extends question_testcase {
 
         $importer = new qformat_blackboard_six();
         $questions = $importer->readquestions($xml);
-        $q = $questions[0];
+        $q = $questions[1];
 
         $expectedq = new stdClass();
         $expectedq->qtype = 'truefalse';
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ class qformat_blackboard_six_qti_test extends question_testcase {
 
         $importer = new qformat_blackboard_six();
         $questions = $importer->readquestions($xml);
-        $q = $questions[4];
+        $q = $questions[5];
 
         $expectedq = new stdClass();
         $expectedq->qtype = 'shortanswer';
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ class qformat_blackboard_six_qti_test extends question_testcase {
 
         $importer = new qformat_blackboard_six();
         $questions = $importer->readquestions($xml);
-        $q = $questions[5];
+        $q = $questions[6];
 
         $expectedq = new stdClass();
         $expectedq->qtype = 'essay';
@@ -305,4 +305,19 @@ class qformat_blackboard_six_qti_test extends question_testcase {
 
         $this->assert(new question_check_specified_fields_expectation($expectedq), $q);
     }
+
+    public function test_import_category() {
+
+        $xml = $this->make_test_xml();
+
+        $importer = new qformat_blackboard_six();
+        $questions = $importer->readquestions($xml);
+        $q = $questions[0];
+
+        $expectedq = new stdClass();
+        $expectedq->qtype = 'category';
+        $expectedq->category = 'sample_blackboard_six';
+
+        $this->assert(new question_check_specified_fields_expectation($expectedq), $q);
+    }
 }