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 \label{Testbank_Formatting}  \label{Testbank_Formatting}
   
 Four requirements must be met to ensure that you will succeed in building LON-CAPA problem files using your plain text file containing testbank questions.  The following requirements must be met to ensure that you will succeed in building LON-CAPA problem files from a file containing testbank questions.
   
 \begin{enumerate}  \begin{enumerate}
   
 \item The questions and answers you upload must be in plain text  \item The uploaded testbank file containing questions and answers must be either plain text, rich text format (RTF), or a web page (i.e., HTML format). Testbank files in RTF and HTML formats may contain images.  If conversion to LON-CAPA fails for RTF or HTML formats, re-saving the testbank file from the application originally used to generate it in plain text, and re-uploading the file to LON-CAPA may solve the problem (albeit with the loss of formatting information).
 format.  Any header lines should occur before the text containing the  
 questions and answers.  
   
 \item All questions must occur before any of the answers.  Each  \item All questions must occur before any of the answers.  Each
 question should be numbered sequentially using a number followed  question should begin on a new line starting with a number followed
 immediately by a space, a period, or enclosed in parentheses, i.e., 1  immediately by a space, a period, or enclosed in parentheses, i.e., 1
 , 1., (1), 1), or (1 .  , 1., (1), 1), or (1 .  If you use a word processor to create the testbank questions you must disable auto-formatting of lists, otherwise the formatting will not conform to the new line requirement.  
   
 \item One or more correct answers should be provided for all questions  \item One or more correct answers need to be provided for all questions
 (although blank answers may be provided for \textit{essay} questions).  (although the answer text may be blank for \textit{essay} questions).
 Answers should be numbered sequentially, using the same scheme as used  Each answer should begin on a new line using the same numbering scheme as used
 for the questions, and must occur after all the questions.  for the questions, and all answers must occur after all the questions.
   
 \item \textit{Multiple choice} and \textit{multiple answer correct}  \item \textit{Multiple choice} and \textit{multiple answer correct}
 questions should consist of (i) the question number followed by (ii) a  questions should consist of (i) the question number followed by (ii) a
Line 28  period, or enclosed in parentheses, i.e. Line 26  period, or enclosed in parentheses, i.e.
   
 \item If \textit{fill-in-the-blank} or \textit{multiple answer}  \item If \textit{fill-in-the-blank} or \textit{multiple answer}
 questions have more than one correct answer, each answer should appear  questions have more than one correct answer, each answer should appear
 in a comma-, tab-, space-, or new line-delimited list.  in a comma-, tab-, space-, or new line-delimited list. For a  \textit{ranking/ordering} question, the "answer" should contain the foil identifiers correctly ordered in a similarly delimited list. If two or more foils have the same ranking, they should occur together, with an equals sign separating equally ranked foils [e.g., (b),(e)=(a),(d),(c)]
   
 \end{enumerate}  \end{enumerate}
   
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