Re: exporting multiple choice questions to Aiken or GIFT formats?

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2015-08-28, at 16:44, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just on the off chance that somebody has done this already, is there an
> export engine for creating Aiken or GIFT format exam questions?

I've never heard of these, but I did a similar thing for HTML+JS and
LaTeX:

https://github.com/mbork/org-edu-html
https://github.com/mbork/org-edu-latex

My markup was to use lists with checkboxes, and check the correct
answer(s).

> The second step would be to be able to select a random number of
> questions to export from a larger question bank.  Suggestions for how to
> do this also welcome!

I would do it in a separate function altogether, so that I could
e.g. first create a random set of questions, and then run an exporter to
generate the test.

Tomorrow I'm giving a talk during EmacsConf2015
(http://emacsconf2015.org/) about custom Org exporters.  Notes and code
are available here: https://github.com/mbork/ox-oddmuse .

> thanks,
> eric

Hth,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University