From: Brett Presnell <presnell@ufl.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Developing Moodle resources/sites with Org Mode
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:57:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cytyy3dk.fsf@ufl.edu> (raw)
> I have begun thinking about how I might use Org mode to improve the experience of developing resources for the open source Moodle LMS or even developing entire Moodle sites.
Nice idea. You might find it useful to look into the source code for
the R/Exams package for R (https://www.r-exams.org/). The format there
is RMarkdown as opposed to org mode, but I imagine a lot of the same
ideas might apply. I'm pretty sure that Moodle was the original
platform that the developers were using, but they now support most of
the big platforms.
> I have already written a statistics exam with Org Mode and Maxima. I can generate as many different versions of a question (and associated answer key and solution set) as I wish with almost no additional effort. In order to facilitate import into Moodle STACK, I have had to restrict my access to Maxima variables using accessors also written in Maxima ... I import the Maxima block into the accessor with noweb. I end up re-running the same chunk of Maxima code over and over, once for each variable access, because there is no Maxima session. It is kind of stupid but I tossed it together in three days. I suppose I could store the results of a Maxima run in a table and just do table lookups but I've got the spare compute cycles to run Maxima over and over until I sort this all out. I think Maxima session is the right way to go but I'm inexperienced with all this and would appreciate guidance.
I've used R/Exams a good bit by now, and I always generate at least 16
random versions of every quiz or exam. The process is pretty automatic.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-18 16:57 Brett Presnell [this message]
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2024-01-18 1:25 Developing Moodle resources/sites with Org Mode Doolittle, Edward
2024-01-19 14:45 ` Devin Prater
2024-01-17 4:17 Edward Doolittle
2024-01-17 12:18 ` Fraga, Eric
2024-01-17 19:23 ` Leo Butler
2024-01-17 20:32 ` Denis Bitouzé
2024-01-18 3:35 ` Edward Doolittle
2024-01-18 18:03 ` Leo Butler
2024-01-18 14:53 ` Christian Moe
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