penguins: Cloze Quiz for Exploratory Analysis of Penguins Data Cloze exercise exploring sex differences in body mass for a randomly selected species of penguins, based on the eponymous data in base R.

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

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

🐧 Example exercise

www.r-exams.org/templates/pe...

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.

Create a document with an overview of all available R/exams exercises I have several .qmd files with R/exams exercises. I can select a subset and include them in a PDF file using exams2pdf() without any problem. However, I would like to produce a PDF file with all the

🚨 PSA for R/exams users.

New StackOverflow post showing how to generate interactive overviews of all your exercise files. In response to the question by @luca-scr.bsky.social #rexams #rstats

stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

Nice blog post, just discovered it today, thanks!

Combination of #rexams with quarto-live (or something along those lines) would indeed be nice. So far we haven't really tried to come up with anything, though...

Quality Control for Scanned Multiple-Choice Exams Step-by-step guide to using nops_fix() for fixing problems that occurred during scanning written NOPS exams in R/exams.

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

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

www.r-exams.org/tutorials/no...

Creating and managing Canvas quizzes with R/exams and vvcanvas Canvas quizzes can be created with exams2canvas in R/exams and then imported and managed in Canvas using the R package vvcanvas.

📣 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

www.r-exams.org/tutorials/vv...

R/exams Presents: Fun with Flags A knowledge quiz about the flags of countries and their neighbors illustrates how R/exams and Quarto can be leveraged for standalone self-learning materials (and pays tribute to Sheldon Cooper).

🎉 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 (honoring Sheldon Cooper)
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇬🇹 🇧🇿

Useful for: Open educational resources for self-learning etc

www.r-exams.org/general/fun_...

Plot/image size in exams2nops and in exams2pdf without modifying the template I have an R/exams exercise like scatterplot.Rmd and tried to include different chunk options into the exams2pdf/exams2nops command, but nothing changed the size of the included image for me: heigh...

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. 😭

stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

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

💪 Thanks to the efforts of Gabriele Cantaluppi et al.

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

Include and grade open-ended question in exams2nops How can we include and grade open-ended question in exams generated by exams2nops from R/exams? I recall that we did had such open-ended questions in 2015. These generated a second page to the answer

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

Had explained that the difference matters: graded vs. ungraded open-ended questions in NOPS exams. Flagged it as duplicate nevertheless...

stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

exams2ilias loses the correct answer I'm trying to import some exercises I've made into Ilias using exams2ilias. Whenever I do exams2ilias("MinWorkEx.Rmd",points=10) and import the resulting .zip-folder as a question pool i...

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

- Good documentation of 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

stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

New R/exams Version: exams2forms, Written NOPS Exams, and More New CRAN releases of the R/exams package and the accompanying exams2forms package with many new features and enhancements, especially for the written multiple-choice exams (NOPS).

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

www.r-exams.org/general/cran...

vowels: Phonetics cloze quiz about Cardinal vowels Cloze exercise in which two randomly-selected Cardinal vowels have to be described according to the three parameters vowel height, frontness-backness, and lip rounding.

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:

www.r-exams.org/templates/vo...

sumdiff: Sum Minus Difference Exercise template for a very basic arithmetic task, namely computing the sum of two random numbers minus their difference.

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:

www.r-exams.org/templates/su...

flags: Fun with Flags Single-choice knowledge quiz question in which the correct flag for a country has to be selected from a list of flags.

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:

www.r-exams.org/templates/fl...

exams: Automatic Generation of Exams in R Automatic generation of exams based on exercises in Markdown or LaTeX format, possibly including R code for dynamic generation of exercise elements. Exercise types include single-choice and multiple-c...

🚨 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.

cran.r-project.org/package=exams

R/Exams change font I am using R/exams via exams2nops() to generate PDFs. The font everywhere is sans serif, which I don't like. But I know that the front page must be unaltered as much as possible in order not to aff...

👋 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!

stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

👋 #elearning bsky!

📝 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.

Create, scan, and correct exams with R | Dr. Edgar Treischl

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

edgar-treischl.de/blog/examr/

Embedding R/exams Exercises as Forms in R/Markdown or Quarto Documents Introduction to the new exams2forms package for including quizzes or individual questions from dynamic exercise templates into rmarkdown or quarto documents, e.g., for self-paced learning and self-ass...

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

Joint work with Reto Stauffer

Generate quizzes for self-paced #elearning in #rstats

www.r-exams.org/tutorials/ex...

boxplots: Interpretation of 2-Sample Boxplots Exercise template for assessing the interpretation of two randomly-generated parallel boxplots regarding location, scale, etc.

🚨 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.,

www.r-exams.org/templates/bo...

Mind the Gap: Using R/exams to Ease the Transition into STEM Studies Ideas and experiences from an award-winning bridging course in mathematics at Universität Innsbruck, whose teaching and examination culture is guided by learning outcomes and extensively uses R/exams.

✅ New R/exams post by Pia Tscholl & Lisa Schlosser.

Leveraging #rexams and #openolat for an award-winning #stem bridging course at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social #elearning

www.r-exams.org/general/uibk...