🚨 New convenience function in #rexams and #rstats for #elearning

add_cloze() for creating cloze exercises more easily, especially for data-based quizzes

🐧 Example exercise

https://www.R-exams.org/templates/penguins/

@rpodcast @rweekly Thanks for the feature and the very kind words about #rexams, very much appreciated!

Quick comment about the "low-tech" format of written/scanned exams: These seem to be becoming more popular again because it's easier to control access to AI tools and prevent cheating etc.

Alternatively you can export R/exams also to learning management systems like Moodle, Canvas & Co. This also enables embedding individualized data sets for download.

🚨 PSA for R/exams users. :rstats:

New StackOverflow post showing how to generate interactive overviews of all your exercise files. In response to the question by Luca Scrucca. #rexams #rstats

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79772886#79773194

📢 New #rexams tutorial: Quality control for scanned multiple-choice exams with nops_fix() in #rstats

- Automatic display of problematic sheets
- Prompting for manual corrections
- Specialized checks for implausible answer patterns
- Manual review of specific exam sheets

https://www.R-exams.org/tutorials/nops_fix/

📣 New blog post: Creating and managing Canvas quizzes with R/exams and vvcanvas

- Create quiz zip using exams2canvas() from #rexams

- Import in #canvaslms via API and vvcanvas pkg

- Manipulate settings programmatically from #rstats

By Niels Smits

https://www.R-exams.org/tutorials/vvcanvas/

🎉 R/exams Presents: Fun with Flags

How to: Create standalone quizzes with #rstats #rexams #quarto

Demo: Knowledge quiz about the flags of countries and their neighbors (in honor of Sheldon Cooper)
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇬🇹 🇧🇿

Useful for: Open educational resources for self-learning etc

https://www.R-exams.org/general/fun_with_flags/

I'm so tired of this 😩

#StackOverflow "experts" closed _again_ a perfectly valid #rexams question...

...already edited _and_ answered by me

...pleading for feedback rather than closing in the comments

...to no avail. This is so frustrating. 😭

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79662226/

🎉 MathJax support (LaTeX in HTML) coming Blackboard LMS!

💪 Thanks to the efforts of Gabriele Cantaluppi et al.

✅ Greatly facilitates mathematical and statistical exercises from #rexams via exams2blackboard

Friends of #rstats and #StackOverflow this is becoming a habit but I need your help _again_ to re-open an #rexams question.

I had explained that the difference is important: graded vs. ungraded open-ended questions in NOPS exams. Someone flagged it as duplicate nevertheless.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79655980/

Any users of the #ILIAS learning management system out there who know:

- Good documentation of the QTI XML specifics for ILIAS

- A person interested in R/exams who would help with exams2ilias() development

We currently have problems we cannot fix #rexams #rstats

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79619847/

🚨 New blog post about new versions of the `exams` and `exams2forms` packages #rstats #rexams

https://www.R-exams.org/general/cran_release_242/

New-ish #rexams exercise: Phonetics cloze quiz about Cardinal vowels

Particularly well-suited for drop-down menus and illustrates how Unicode can be used for International Phonetic Alphabet (requires fontspec package in XeLaTeX for PDF).

Try interactively at:

https://www.R-exams.org/templates/vowels/

New #rexams exercise: Sum minus difference

Minimal arithmetic task to help R/exams newbies. Uses random numbers but only short text description and no mathematical notation in LaTeX.

Try interactively at:

https://www.R-exams.org/templates/sumdiff/

New #rexams exercise: Fun with flags

Single-choice knowledge quiz about flags from countries around the world.

Uses flexible randomization and Unicode representation of flags.

Try interactively at:

https://www.R-exams.org/templates/flags/

🚨 New #rexams version 2.4-2 out on CRAN #rstats

- exams2moodle: Fixed schoice evaluation in cloze exercises

- exams2nops: New features in nops_fix, nops_eval, ...

- exams2pdf: Facilitate customization

See the NEWS for more details.

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=exams

👋 Hi friends of #rstats and #stackoverflow

An IMO legitimate question about our #rexams pkg was closed before I could answer it. Maybe some of you want to help reopen it? Thanks in advance!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79545467/

👋 #elearning Mastodon!

📝 Can anyone here share experiences from their #university (preferably in 🇩🇪) about using #moodle for regular large summative exams?

Some German #rexams users are looking advice on pros/cons/caveats/etc.

Nice contributed tutorial about written multiple-choice exams with #rexams in #rstats ✅ :rstats:

https://edgar-treischl.de/blog/examr/

📄 New blog post on embedding #rexams exercises in #rmarkdown or #quarto documents

Joint work with @retostauffer

Generate quizzes for self-paced #elearning in #rstats

https://www.r-exams.org/tutorials/exams2forms/

🚨 PSA: Cool new feature on #rexams web page, the :rstats: one-for-all exams generator.

All demo exercise templates now have an interactive preview with 3 random versions, e.g.,

https://www.R-exams.org/templates/boxplots/