I'd be surprised if it did!

If your uni uses Canvas LMS and you need to regrade numerical answers because the original solution was wrong… yep, that usually means fixing every submission manually 😅

But you don’t have to! The canvasquiz #rstats package can now do the regrading for you 🙌

emitanaka.org/canvasquiz/a...

Ah fair enough. In case it is helpful, my lecture slides for STAT1003: emitanaka.org/STAT1003/sch...

I've got the regrade function working now: emitanaka.org/canvasquiz/a...

Let me know how it went if you use it?

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Oh alright, definitely 😜 I have faith you guys will pull it off!

Collaborative writing in Quarto! I can maybe finally say goodbye to Overleaf!

Yeah it looked like a good package. I think they use a newer QTI version than Canvas and I think I read somewhere that the Canvas Classic Quiz uses an older version, so not sure if it's completely compatible. Canvas is developing a new quiz format so hopefully it doesn't break too many things 🤞

canvasquiz doesn’t generate QTI files (it pushes directly into Canvas via its API, avoiding manual uploading by the user). I did try looking into QTI files (and other canvas CRAN packages) but I'll leave that to exams or rqti!

I think the approaches are fairly different which make integration difficult and a healthy community needs diversity

Yup, I noticed this is a new feature that’s very similar to the feature that existed in moodlequiz for some years. It does make it easier to use!

I think it’s doable. I’ll experiment in the next two weeks and will let you know if it works!

Wow what a system! Wait until you have to regrade a numerical answer question … You can’t update the answer for students who took the quiz so you have to manually update the marks for all students (I am so creating a function to do this automatically!)

Limits for numerical questions in Old Quizzes - Instructure Community I'm editing a quiz I inherited that is in the Old Quiz format and trying to create a numerical question with a very small answer (1.34e-5) and the editor keeps defaulting my answer to zero. I get the ...

Actually, the forum says that if you use numerical answers with precision, you can get small numbers.

So in the canvasquiz package, use `answer_num_precision()` instead of `answer_num()`.

community.instructure.com/en/discussio...

Nope. That was persistent in my last quiz and a had a number of students emailing me about it. But I should include that as a warning, because that took me by surprise.

I'd be happier if only Canvas had cloze-style numerical answers with tolerance.

I think exams pkg is amazing, but the cognitive effort to use it is high for me, e.g. doesn't conform to a typical Rmd structure, extra bookkeeping to track answer metadata. moodlequiz is cognitively low effort for me.

R/exams Automatic generation and evaluation of exams. From Markdown, LaTeX and R code to standalone documents, learning management systems and live voting.

And of course, definitely check out the `exams` package by @zeileis.org, which now has an inline cloze feature like `moodlequiz`! (Which I dearly miss for Canvas)

www.r-exams.org

GitHub - numbats/moodlequiz: R Markdown format for Moodle XML cloze quizzes R Markdown format for Moodle XML cloze quizzes. Contribute to numbats/moodlequiz development by creating an account on GitHub.

And for those still using Moodle, check out `moodlequiz` #rstats package (github.com/numbats/mood...) for a literate programming approach. @mitchelloharawild.com will be speaking on this at ICOTS in Brisbane this year!

GitHub - emitanaka/canvasquiz: Quiz For Canvas Learning Management System Quiz For Canvas Learning Management System. Contribute to emitanaka/canvasquiz development by creating an account on GitHub.

Since ANU has transitioned from Moodle to Canvas LMS, I’ve developed a set of #rstats functions to help me write quizzes directly into Canvas, and I’ve started packaging them up.

It’s still a work in progress, but I’d welcome any feedback!

github.com/emitanaka/ca...

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I second Zulip. We use that for our team. Can write latex as well! Can add you to our one if you wanna check it out? @bharrap.bsky.social

I’m really digging the pink theme in your blog posts

We are responding to this call for evidence:
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Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value.

Thanks!

The very motivation why I wanted this package on CRAN! My teaching doesn't start for another 4.5 weeks, so now to include the data in my teaching materials...

If you're teaching first year statisitcs (particularly for biology/ag), the data package `smbdata`, featuring all data from the Welham et al (2015) book, is now published on CRAN. Thank you to the authors for their permission to put it on CRAN!

cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #rstats