exams2openolat: Generation of Exams for OpenOLAT

Description

Automatic generation of exams in QTI 2.1 (or 1.2) with some tweaks optimized for OpenOLAT.

Usage

exams2openolat(file, n = 1L, dir = ".", name = "olattest",
  qti = "2.1", converter = "pandoc-mathjax", table = TRUE,
  maxattempts = 1, ...)

Value

exams2openolat returns a list of exams as generated by xexams.

Arguments

file: character. A specification of a (list of) exercise files.
n: integer. The number of copies to be compiled from file.
dir: character. The default is the current working directory.
name: character. A name prefix for resulting exercises and ZIP file.
qti: character indicating whether QTI "1.2" or "2.1" (default) should be generated.
converter: character passed on to make_exercise_transform_html, indicating the type of converter from LaTeX/Markdown to HTML. Defaults to HTML with MathJax (and OpenOLAT-specific fixups).
table: logical or character. Should a dedicated table class be used in the HTML for OpenOLAT? For details see below.
maxattempts: integer. The maximum attempts for one question (must be smaller than 100000).
...: arguments passed on to exams2qti12 or exams2qti21, respectively.

Details

exams2openolat is a convenience interface to exams2qti12 and exams2qti21 for generating either QTI 1.2 or 2.1 (default) output with some small tweaks for OpenOLAT. Specifically, the MathJax output from pandoc is post-processed as expected by OpenOLAT.

Dedicated table classes currently include: Full-width tables with borders ("b_grid", "b_border") or without ("b_full", "b_borderless"). Or regular tables without background color ("b_middle") or with white grid and color background ("b_gray", "b_red", "b_green", "b_blue", "b_yellow"). Setting table = TRUE corresponds to table = "b_gray".

Examples

Run this code

# \donttest{
## load package and enforce par(ask = FALSE)
library("exams")
options(device.ask.default = FALSE)

## define an exams (= list of exercises)
myexam <- list(
  "boxplots",
  c("tstat", "ttest", "confint"),
  c("regression", "anova"),
  c("scatterplot", "boxhist"),
  "relfreq"
)

## output directory
dir.create(mydir <- tempfile())

## generate .zip with OpenOLAT test in temporary directory
exams2openolat(myexam, n = 3, dir = mydir)
dir(mydir)
# }