Learnosity Import & Export
Education technology providers are increasingly migrating from legacy assessment engines to Campfire in search of a more comprehensive, end-to-end solution for creating, managing, and delivering assessment content: a single platform for authoring, curriculum, item banking, and delivery rather than stitching together point tools.
To make that move as low-risk as possible, Campfire offers high-fidelity, bidirectional content interoperability with Learnosity. Whether you're migrating an existing Learnosity item bank into Campfire, exporting Campfire items into a Learnosity-powered delivery platform, or operating across both systems in parallel, our converters preserve item structure, scoring, metadata, and assets so your content keeps working without manual rebuilds.
Why bidirectional Learnosity support matters
Most platform migrations are painful because they're all-or-nothing: rip out your existing system, rebuild content, retrain authors, and rewire delivery, all in a single cutover. Campfire's Learnosity interop is designed to remove that risk by letting you migrate gracefully, in three phases, on your timeline:
1. Migrate your content without losing fidelity
Bring your entire Learnosity item bank into Campfire in a single import. With support for 45 Learnosity question types (including the long tail of legacy and deprecated formats) and full preservation of passages, alignments, scoring, and metadata, your content lands in Campfire ready to use, not as flat exports you have to clean up by hand. Older Learnosity types are mapped to their modern equivalents automatically, so years of accumulated content come along for the ride.
2. Manage in Studio while still delivering through Learnosity
Once your content lives in Campfire, you immediately benefit from Studio's curriculum and assessment content management system: powerful tagging, alignment workflows, review queues, custom scoring, translation tools, bulk operations, and search across the entire bank. You don't have to switch your delivery platform to start getting value. Authors can keep working in Studio while items continue to render through the Learnosity Questions API in your existing assessment player. Studio becomes the source of truth; Learnosity stays the renderer.
3. Transition to Campfire SDK delivery for significant savings
When you're ready, swap the Learnosity Questions API for the Campfire SDK in your assessment player. The same items render natively, with no content rework, and most teams see significant savings on delivery costs once they make the switch. Because Campfire's export path produces valid Learnosity payloads as well, you can stage the cutover gradually, moving exams or audiences over one at a time, and always retain the option to send content back out to a Learnosity-powered system if you need to.
The end result: a low-risk, zero-rebuild path off Learnosity that lets you adopt Campfire on your terms and capture meaningful delivery savings whenever you're ready to make the final move.
By the numbers:
- 45 Learnosity question types are importable into Campfire: 33 current types and 12 legacy or deprecated types mapped automatically to their modern equivalents
- 27 question types can be exported from Campfire back into Learnosity (we do not export to legacy Learnosity item types)
- 23 question types support full bidirectional round-tripping with no loss of fidelity
- All Learnosity activities and exams are importable and exportable
- The most common Learnosity features (shared passages, audio players) are imported natively
We regularly validate the importer against real customer banks and add new question type converters as customer demand calls for them. If you have a Learnosity bank you'd like assessed for migration readiness, reach out and we can run a compatibility scan against your content.
Question Type Compatibility
The table below covers every Learnosity question type Campfire converters currently handle, ordered by how often it appears in real-world customer content. Import means we can bring the item in; Export means we can send a Campfire item out as that Learnosity type; Round-trip means an item can make a full Learnosity → Campfire → Learnosity journey without losing fidelity.
| Learnosity Type | Display Name | Import | Export | Round-trip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
mcq | Multiple Choice | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
clozetext | Fill in the Blanks (Text) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
shorttext | Short Text | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ Lossy |
orderlist | Order List | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
longtextV2 | Essay with Rich Text | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
formulaessayV2 | Math Essay with Rich Text | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
chemistryessayV2 | Chemistry Essay with Rich Text | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
imageclozeassociationV2 | Label Image with Drag & Drop | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
clozeassociation | Cloze with Drag & Drop | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
choicematrix | Choice Matrix | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
association | Match List | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
plaintext | Essay with Plain Text | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ Lossy |
graphplotting | Graph Plotting | ⚠️ | ⚠️ Points only | ⚠️ Points only |
drawing | Drawing | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
clozedropdown | Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
clozeformulaV2 | Cloze Math | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
clozechemistry | Cloze Chemistry | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
chemistry | Chemistry Formula | ✅ | n/a | Via clozechemistry |
imageclozechemistry | Cloze Chemistry with Image | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
classification | Classification | ✅ | — | Import only |
tokenhighlight | Token Highlight | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
audio | Audio Recorder | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
simplechart | Chart | ⚠️ | ⚠️ | ⚠️ Bar/line only |
hotspot | Hotspot | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ Rect only |
fileupload | File Upload | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
imageclozedropdown | Label Image with Dropdown | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
imageclozetext | Label Image with Text | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
numberlineplot | Number Line Plot | ✅ | — | Import only |
numberline | Number Line | ✅ | — | Import only |
simpleshading | Shading | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
imageclozeformulaV2 | Cloze Math with Image | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
gridded | Gridded (Bubble Grid) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
fillshape | Fill Shape | ✅ | — | Import only |
Legacy & Deprecated Question Types
Learnosity has retired or superseded a number of older question types over the years. Campfire's importer transparently maps these legacy formats onto their modern equivalents, so you don't need to clean up or migrate your historical content before bringing it in.
| Learnosity Type | Display Name | Mapped To | Import |
|---|---|---|---|
longtext | Essay (Legacy) | longtextV2 | ✅ |
formula | Formula (Legacy) | clozeformulaV2 | ✅ |
formulaV2 | Formula (Deprecated) | clozeformulaV2 | ✅ |
clozeformula | Cloze Math (Legacy) | clozeformulaV2 | ✅ |
imageclozeassociation | Image Cloze Association (Legacy) | imageclozeassociationV2 | ✅ |
imageclozeformula | Cloze Math with Image (Legacy) | imageclozeformulaV2 | ✅ |
sortlist | Sort List (Deprecated) | orderlist | ✅ |
highlight | Image Highlight (Deprecated) | drawing | ✅ |
texthighlight | Text Highlight (Deprecated) | tokenhighlight | ✅ |
clozeinlinetext | Cloze Inline Text (Legacy) | clozetext | ✅ |
formulaessay | Math Essay (Legacy) | formulaessayV2 | ✅ |
chemistryessay | Chemistry Essay (Legacy) | chemistryessayV2 | ✅ |
Not Yet Supported Question Types
A small set of Learnosity question types aren't yet handled by the importer. Most are specialty formats with no direct Campfire equivalent — we're tracking customer demand and prioritizing accordingly.
| Learnosity Type | Display Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
multistepmath | Multi-Step Math | Needs new type or multi-stem mapping |
custom | Custom | Vendor-specific custom widgets |
rating | Rating | Could map to Multiple Choice on request |
video | Video Recorder | No native equivalent today |
imageupload | Image Annotation Upload | Could map to File Upload on request |
bowtie | Bow-Tie (NCLEX NGN) | Specialty nursing item type |
nclex | NCLEX | Specialty nursing item type |
Need one of these? Customer demand drives our roadmap. If an unsupported type is blocking your migration, let us know — most can be added in a single sprint.
Feature Compatibility
Learnosity "features" are non-question content elements like shared passages, audio players, and calculators. Campfire's importer handles the most common ones natively.
| Learnosity Feature | Import | Notes |
|---|---|---|
sharedpassage | ✅ | Converted to a Passage resource and linked to all referencing items |
audioplayer | ✅ | Converted to a stimulus element on the item |
calculator | ⚠️ | Silently skipped — calculators are surfaced via Campfire delivery settings rather than embedded in the item |
videoplayer | — | Not yet supported |
imagetool | — | Not yet supported |
customfeature | n/a | Custom widgets are vendor-specific and not portable |
linereader | n/a | Assessment-time tool, not item content |
counter | n/a | Assessment-time tool, not item content |
Activity & Exam Compatibility
| Direction | Status |
|---|---|
| Import (Learnosity → Campfire) | ✅ All activities are importable |
| Export (Campfire → Learnosity) | ✅ Supported, including sections and forms |
Activity structure — sections, items, ordering, and metadata — is fully preserved in both directions.
How to Read the Compatibility Tables
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ✅ | Fully supported |
| ⚠️ | Partial support — see the notes column |
| — | Not yet supported (planned or possible on request) |
| n/a | Not applicable — see notes for the reason |
Terms
- Import = Campfire can ingest a Learnosity question of this type and create a faithful Campfire item.
- Export = Campfire can serialize a Campfire item back into this Learnosity question type.
- Round-trip = An item can complete the full Learnosity → Campfire → Learnosity journey without losing fidelity. A "Lossy" round-trip means the item still works on both ends, but some formatting or metadata may be normalized.