Forum: support

RE: learndash [ Reply ] By: Achim Zeileis on 2025-11-28 14:47	[forum:50129]
I haven't heard about any progress. But I'm not sure whether Eric has partially implemented something.

RE: learndash [ Reply ] By: Zsolt Udvari on 2025-11-28 14:02	[forum:50128]
Is there any news about it?

RE: learndash [ Reply ]
By: Achim Zeileis on 2022-05-13 00:58

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If you have an SVN client (SVN stands for Subversion - a version control system), you can access the source package via:

svn checkout svn://r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/exams/pkg/exams/

Alternatively, you can download the .tar.gz or .zip of the development package from:

https://R-Forge.R-project.org/R/?group_id=1337

Or you can browse the individual source files at:

https://R-Forge.R-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/exams/R/exams2kahoot.R?view=markup&root=exams

https://R-Forge.R-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/exams/R/exams2particify.R?view=markup&root=exams

RE: learndash [ Reply ]
By: Eric Lin on 2022-05-12 16:45

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Achim, I would like to look at the kahoot functions and such. Yes, this could be a productive starting point. The exams2particfy could also be nice to look at, since I think there is some functionality for uploading images into the quiz questions.

The baseline functionality of learndash on assessments is pretty basic, but there are plugin tools for getting more sophisticated, such as generating libraries of question variants, randomly selected over different attempts at the quizzes.

Can you guide me as to how to access this latest development version of exams, so I can see what is behind those functions?

RE: learndash [ Reply ]
By: Achim Zeileis on 2022-05-10 01:29

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I hadn't heard about it before and just had a very quick look. It seems somewhat limited for actual assessments but for quizzes it might be nice to support it.

In the current devel version on R-Forge there are two other exams2xyz interfaces that produce relatively simple rectangular spreadsheets where each line corresponds to one quiz question:

- First, there is exams2kahoot that produces an Excel (xlsx) spreadsheet that can be imported into the Kahoot! quiz platform, provided that all exercises are schoice/mchoice without supplements and sufficiently short question texts.

- Second, there is exams2particfy that produces a CSV spreadsheet that can be imported into the Particify audience response system (successor of ARSnova). It is also mainly intended for schoice/mchoice questions but allows Markdown markup in the question text which enables embedding of images and supplements.

So you could use these as starting points for an exams2learndash function. The code of the functions is relatively short (less than 100 lines of code) and hopefully straightforward. Let me know if you need further information.

learndash [ Reply ]
By: Eric Lin on 2022-05-09 17:54

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I was wondering if there is any thought about development for exploring questions to learndash. This is the LMS plugin for wordpress.

Whilst learndash is not yet a big player on the LMS front, it is something that is gaining speed in popularity, not just in training programs and non-degree stuff, but also at some big schools now. Digging into this a bit, it seems that the data format for exam questions are simpler, like an excel or csv table, that is imported into quizzes.

Learndash have a library for quiz questions like traditional LMS's do, but you can create these by using a quiz as a library set of questions, then create subquizzes that draw from parent quizzes for random selections from question sets.

Just checking to see if there is any development interest - given the simplicity of the data structure to ingest into Learndash, I could even collaborate with others to help create that exams2XX() function