Publications by R/exams
Why R? Webinar on R/exams for E-Learning Quizzes and Beyond
Webinar hosted by Why R? Foundation: Slides, video, and e-learning resources. Why R? Webinar 001 R/exams was presented in the first Why R? webinar by Achim Zeileis. Marcin Kosiński was the host and did a great job setting up the Zoom session that was streamed live on YouTube where more than 100 participants joined the live chat. Compared to pre...
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capitals: Knowledge Quiz Question about Capitals around the World
Exercise template for a multiple-choice knowledge quiz question with flexible shuffling of the alternatives. Name: capitals Type: mchoice Related: swisscapital Description: Knowledge quiz question about capitals (vs. large cities) in countries around the world with 5 correct and 6 false alternatives which are shuffled randomly in each versi...
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New R/exams Version: TinyTeX, Fixing Parameters and Random Seeds, and More
New minor releases of the R/exams package to CRAN with many enhancements including TinyTeX support and extended control over the random variation in dynamic exercises through fixed parameters or custom random seeds. New versions of the R/exams package (2.3-5 and 2.3-6) have been released on the Comprehensive R Archive Network at https://CRAN.R-p...
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Summative Online Exams with R/exams and OpenOLAT
Tutorial for conducting online exams generated by R/exams in OpenOLAT, including strategies to prevent cheating such as extended randomization, linear navigation, and a sworn declaration prior to the exam. Overview The development version of the R/exams package has recently been extended to support a few more strategies for helping to prevent ch...
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Transitioning a Soil Mechanics Course to R/exams
Experiences with transitioning to R/exams for multiple automated and randomized online exams in a soil mechanics course at Universität Innsbruck (UIBK). Guest post by Wolfgang Fellin (Universität Innsbruck, Division of Geotechnical and Tunnel Engineering). Background Our exercises in soil mechanics are attended by about 120 students every year...
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R/exams for Distance Learning: Resources and Experiences
Resources and experiences shared by the R/exams community for supporting distance learning in different learning management systems. Motivation The COVID-19 pandemic forced many of us to switch abruptly from our usual teaching schedules to distance learning formats. Within days or a couple of weeks, it was necessary to deliver courses in live st...
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Online Tests for TestVision with R/exams
Generating, importing, and customizing online tests for TestVision with R/exams. Motivation This tutorial illustrates how to use R/exams for creating online exams for TestVision. Testvision is a Dutch commercial online testing company which administers online exams for many universities in the Netherlands. Until now the import of external materi...
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Using LaTeX in R/exams: What, Why, How?
LaTeX is a document prepration system that is very powerful but can sometimes also be a bit confusing. Hence, some useful details are provided that should help R/exams users getting LaTeX installed and used effectively for preparing exams. What? LaTeX is a software system for document preparation, see the corresponding Wikipedia page for an over...
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Introductory R/exams Course by Andrew Zammit-Mangion
To help new users to adopt R/exams for generating remote assessments this new free online course covers steps from installation to automatic exam generation in Moodle and PDF format. Due to the requirement to move to remote assessment during the global Covid-19 pandemic, Andrew Zammit-Mangion (University of Wollongong, School of Mathematics and ...
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