* Exporting from Org to Gift/Aiken or other quiz formats
@ 2021-01-13 11:31 Diego Zamboni
2021-01-13 11:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-02-09 9:58 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Diego Zamboni @ 2021-01-13 11:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Org-mode, Fraga, Eric
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Hi everyone,
I've started to develop online teaching materials with Moodle (
https://moodle.com/), and I'm looking for ways to generate my content using
Org as much as possible.
For quizzes, Moodle can import various known question/answer formats,
including GIFT, Aiken, Moodle's own XML format, and a few others:
- Aiken format
- Blackboard
- Embedded answers (Cloze)
- Examview
- GIFT format
- Missing word format
- Moodle XML format
- WebCT format
I was wondering if anyone has any experience or pointers to existing ways
of exporting from Org to some of these formats.
Eric: I found this old thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2015-08/msg01219.html -
did you ever develop or find a way to do the export? Otherwise I might take
a shot at it, using Marcin's code as a starting point.
Thanks in advance!
--Diego
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* Re: Exporting from Org to Gift/Aiken or other quiz formats
2021-01-13 11:31 Exporting from Org to Gift/Aiken or other quiz formats Diego Zamboni
@ 2021-01-13 11:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-01-13 11:59 ` Diego Zamboni
2021-02-09 9:58 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Eric S Fraga @ 2021-01-13 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Diego Zamboni; +Cc: Org-mode
Hi Diego,
I did not manage to develop an exporter for moodle. I did write a very
hackish awk script that takes a sort of org document (i.e. it is an org
document but has to follow a strict layout) and creates a Moodle XML
format file.
Lots of introspection of exported Moodle quizzes to figure out some of
the basics... What I've got does the job so long as you only want
multiple choice questions and numeric answer questions (with tolerances)
and provides question specific feedback. As I said, very hackish...
I would love to be able to export from org, mind you.
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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.4-179-g5b5c42
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* Re: Exporting from Org to Gift/Aiken or other quiz formats
2021-01-13 11:51 ` Eric S Fraga
@ 2021-01-13 11:59 ` Diego Zamboni
2021-01-13 12:04 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Diego Zamboni @ 2021-01-13 11:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Diego Zamboni, Org-mode
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Hi Eric,
> I did not manage to develop an exporter for moodle. I did write a very
> hackish awk script that takes a sort of org document (i.e. it is an org
> document but has to follow a strict layout) and creates a Moodle XML
> format file.
>
> Lots of introspection of exported Moodle quizzes to figure out some of
> the basics... What I've got does the job so long as you only want
> multiple choice questions and numeric answer questions (with tolerances)
> and provides question specific feedback. As I said, very hackish...
>
Thanks! I found there is http://www.qml2xml.pro/, which is a custom markup
language for quizzes, and from which Moodle XML can be exported.
Unfortunately the tool seems to be online-only, no downloadable version I
could find. And also, the QML format is a bit strange.
I also started exploring the Moodle XML format, but I was happy to discover
Moodle can also import other formats. I think I might stick to GIFT, Aiken
or some other text-based format, since they seem easier to manipulate
(albeit of course less powerful).
My ultimate ideal goal would be to be able to export a whole Org document
into the whole contents of a course, including Books/pages (not sure yet if
Moodle can import Markdown or something else), quizzes, etc. But quizzes
would be a good start :)
I'll keep you posted if I come up with anything.
--Diego
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* Re: Exporting from Org to Gift/Aiken or other quiz formats
2021-01-13 11:59 ` Diego Zamboni
@ 2021-01-13 12:04 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Eric S Fraga @ 2021-01-13 12:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Diego Zamboni; +Cc: Org-mode
On Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021 at 12:59, Diego Zamboni wrote:
> I also started exploring the Moodle XML format, but I was happy to discover
> Moodle can also import other formats. I think I might stick to GIFT, Aiken
> or some other text-based format, since they seem easier to manipulate
> (albeit of course less powerful).
Yeah, I looked at the text based ones. For some reason, I ended up with
XML (which I do not particularly like) but I cannot remember why!
> I'll keep you posted if I come up with anything.
Please do! Thank you.
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* Re: Exporting from Org to Gift/Aiken or other quiz formats
2021-01-13 11:31 Exporting from Org to Gift/Aiken or other quiz formats Diego Zamboni
2021-01-13 11:51 ` Eric S Fraga
@ 2021-02-09 9:58 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-02-09 11:03 ` Diego Zamboni
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From: Eric S Fraga @ 2021-02-09 9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Diego Zamboni; +Cc: Org-mode
On Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021 at 12:31, Diego Zamboni wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've started to develop online teaching materials with Moodle (
> https://moodle.com/), and I'm looking for ways to generate my content
> using Org as much as possible.
Diego,
did you have a look at the LaTeX package for moodle quizzes?
https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/moodle/
It may be possible (albeit probably non-trivial) to use org to export to
suitable LaTeX that uses this package, along the lines of beamer
piggy-backing on the LaTeX export?
I'm done using moodle for the academic year now (as of today!) so won't
be looking at this any time soon (really must get back into my research
after the COVID-19 disruption...) but that LaTeX package seems to cover
all the cases I would need.
HTH,
eric
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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.4-213-g49364f
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* Re: Exporting from Org to Gift/Aiken or other quiz formats
2021-02-09 9:58 ` Eric S Fraga
@ 2021-02-09 11:03 ` Diego Zamboni
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From: Diego Zamboni @ 2021-02-09 11:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fraga, Eric; +Cc: Org-mode
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Hi Eric,
Thanks for the pointer! I had not seen it. It would seem delightfully
convoluted to go Org -> LaTeX -> Moodle, but it might just work :) I'll
take a look when I have some more time to devote to this. For now I've been
semi-manually converting my quizzes into Gift format for import into Moodle.
Best,
--Diego
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 10:58 AM Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021 at 12:31, Diego Zamboni wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've started to develop online teaching materials with Moodle (
> > https://moodle.com/), and I'm looking for ways to generate my content
> > using Org as much as possible.
>
> Diego,
>
> did you have a look at the LaTeX package for moodle quizzes?
>
> https://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/moodle/
>
> It may be possible (albeit probably non-trivial) to use org to export to
> suitable LaTeX that uses this package, along the lines of beamer
> piggy-backing on the LaTeX export?
>
> I'm done using moodle for the academic year now (as of today!) so won't
> be looking at this any time soon (really must get back into my research
> after the COVID-19 disruption...) but that LaTeX package seems to cover
> all the cases I would need.
>
> HTH,
> eric
>
> --
> : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.4-213-g49364f
>
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