exams2tcexam: Generation of Exams in TCExam Format

Description

Interface for generating exams in TCExam format.

Usage

exams2tcexam(file, n = 1L, nsamp = NULL, dir = ".",
    name = NULL, quiet = TRUE, edir = NULL, tdir = NULL, sdir = NULL, verbose = FALSE,
    resolution = 100, width = 4, height = 4, svg = FALSE, encoding = "", points = NULL,
    modulename = name, subjectname = name, subjectdescription = NULL, timer = 0,
    fullscreen = FALSE, inlineanswers = FALSE, autonext = FALSE, shuffle = FALSE,
    lang = "en", date = Sys.time(), zip = FALSE, converter = NULL, ...)

Value

A list of exams as generated by xexams is returned invisibly.

Arguments

file: character. A specification of a (list of) exercise files.
n: integer. The number of copies to be compiled from file.
nsamp, quiet, edir, tdir, sdir, verbose: arguments passed to xexams.
dir: character specifying the output directory path. The default is the current working directory.
name: character. A name prefix for resulting XML file.
resolution, width, height, svg, encoding: arguments passed to xweave.
points: numeric. Number of points for the questions.
modulename: character. Module name.
subjectname: character. Subject name.
subjectdescription: character. Subject description.
timer: numeric. Number of seconds for each question.
fullscreen: logical. Should the question be shown in full-screen mode?
inlineanswers: logical. Should the question list be presented inline?
autonext: logical. Automatically advance to the next item?
shuffle: logical. Should the question list of schoice/mchoice answers be shuffled (or kept fixed)?
lang: character. Two-letter indicator of the language.
date: character or "Date" object specifying the date of the exam.
zip: logical. Should the resulting XML file be zipped?
converter, ...: arguments passed on to make_exercise_transform_html. The default for converter is set to "ttm" unless there are Rmd exercises in file where "pandoc" is used.

Details

exams2tcexam generates XML exams that can be imported into the TCExam software of Asuni (2012). Currently, the subset of HTML(-like) commands that is supported in TCExam is rather limited, e.g., tables and figures cannot be directly included.

References

Asuni (2012). TCExam: Computer-Based Assessment Software. http://tcexam.org/.

Examples

Run this code

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

if (FALSE) {
## exams2tcexam creates a single XML file
exams2tcexam("tstat2", n = 2)
}

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