by Rick Jerz.
Well, if the DAT files worked for you, then great! Your problem is that you only have course backups, and finding the question banks can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
I assume that if the question banks originally can from the textbook publisher, you would have no problem getting them again. More recently, I notice some textbook publishers providing their question banks in Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, and Brightspace formats. However, if your faculty created question banks independently, they might be out of luck.
I think Blackboard, now Anthology, provides a free Blackboard course for a month or so. You might want to see if getting one of these and loading your course into it might work. However, I am unsure which Blackboard version is free or if the latest version can load your faculty's version.
Make sure to experiment with this Blackboard file on an experimental Moodle so that you do not accidentally clobber your production Moodle.
As I recall, Blackboard doesn't have a concept of a centralized question bank, like Moodle. It had quizzes, and it had "pools." Your faculty member probably doesn't care what he gets, anything is better than nothing.
It appears that Google thinks you can extract question pools from a Blackboard course. Maybe this will help if you haven't already found this kind of information on the Internet. (I think this could be generated from Google's AI engine, so I don't know if it is good.)
I assume that if the question banks originally can from the textbook publisher, you would have no problem getting them again. More recently, I notice some textbook publishers providing their question banks in Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, and Brightspace formats. However, if your faculty created question banks independently, they might be out of luck.
I think Blackboard, now Anthology, provides a free Blackboard course for a month or so. You might want to see if getting one of these and loading your course into it might work. However, I am unsure which Blackboard version is free or if the latest version can load your faculty's version.
Make sure to experiment with this Blackboard file on an experimental Moodle so that you do not accidentally clobber your production Moodle.
As I recall, Blackboard doesn't have a concept of a centralized question bank, like Moodle. It had quizzes, and it had "pools." Your faculty member probably doesn't care what he gets, anything is better than nothing.
It appears that Google thinks you can extract question pools from a Blackboard course. Maybe this will help if you haven't already found this kind of information on the Internet. (I think this could be generated from Google's AI engine, so I don't know if it is good.)