exams (version 2.4-1)

exams2kahoot: Generation of Excel Sheets with Quiz Questions for Kahoot!

Description

Interface for generating Excel sheets with plain-text quiz questions for the Kahoot! game-based learning platform.

Usage

exams2kahoot(file, n = 1L, dir = ".", name = "kahootquiz",
  quiet = TRUE, time = 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.

dir

character. The default is the current working directory.

name

character. A name prefix for resulting Excel sheets.

quiet

logical. Should output be suppressed when calling xweave?

time

numeric. Time limit (in seconds) allowed for answering the question in Kahoot!, must be one of 5, 10, 20, 30, 60, 90, 120, 240. If other numeric inputs are made, they are forced to the nearest admissable specification. Default: 60 seconds.

...

arguments passed on to xexams.

Details

exams2kahoot generates Excel sheets, requiring write.xlsx from the openxlsx package, that can be imported to the Kahoot! game-based learning platform. Only single-choice (schoice) and multiple-choice (mchoice) questions are allowed with plain questions and answers (using conversion via pandoc_convert). Questions and answers must not exceed 120 and 75 characters, respectively.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## create an .xlsx file for Kahoot! (requiring openxslx) based
## on three simple text-based single-choice and multiple-choice questions
exams2kahoot(c("capitals", "swisscapital", "switzerland"))
}