GIFT Questions Format Generator from Dataframes.

GIFTr

‘GIFTr’ package in intended to help course creators to upload questions to MOODLE and other LMS for quizzes. ‘GIFTr’ takes dataframe or tibble of questions of four types: mcq, numerical questions, true or false and short answer,and export it a text file formatted in MOODLE GIFT format. You can prepare a spreadsheet in any software and import it in R and generate any number of questions with HTML, markdown and LATEX support.

Installation

from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("omarelashkar/GIFTr" , build_vignettes = TRUE)

Example

library(GIFTr)
# load GIFTrData
data("GIFTrData")

# See the structure of the data
head(GIFTrData , 2)
#>   categories names                                          question
#> 1  Ques/hist    Q1                 Who's buried in **Grant's tomb**?
#> 2  Ques/hist    Q2 What two people are entombed in **Grant's tomb?**
#>        A
#> 1 *Grant
#> 2 No one
#>                                                                                   B
#> 1 no one#Was true for 12 years, but Grant's remains were buried in the tomb in 1897
#> 2                                                                            *Grant
#>                                  C                                  D
#> 1 Napoleon#He was buried in France Churchill#He was buried in England
#> 2                    *Grant's wife                     Grant's father
#>                                       E question_type
#> 1 Mother Teresa#She was buried in India           mcq
#> 2                                  <NA>           mcq
str(GIFTrData)
#> 'data.frame':    11 obs. of  9 variables:
#>  $ categories   : chr  "Ques/hist" "Ques/hist" "Ques/hist" "Ques/science" ...
#>  $ names        : chr  "Q1" "Q2" "Q3" "Q4" ...
#>  $ question     : chr  "Who's buried in **Grant's tomb**?" "What two people are entombed in **Grant's tomb?**" "Grant was buried in a tomb in New York City" "The sun rises in the West." ...
#>  $ A            : chr  "*Grant" "No one" "T" "F" ...
#>  $ B            : chr  "no one#Was true for 12 years, but Grant's remains were buried in the tomb in 1897" "*Grant" NA NA ...
#>  $ C            : chr  "Napoleon#He was buried in France" "*Grant's wife" NA NA ...
#>  $ D            : chr  "Churchill#He was buried in England" "Grant's father" NA NA ...
#>  $ E            : chr  "Mother Teresa#She was buried in India" NA NA NA ...
#>  $ question_type: chr  "mcq" "mcq" "tf_q" "tf_q" ...

#Create quiz.txt file with GIFT format 
GIFTr::GIFTr(data = GIFTrData, questions = 3, answers = c(4:8), 
             categories = 1, question_type = 9, output = 'quiz.txt')
#> Total Number of Questions passed: 11
#> 
#> ====
#> ====
#> ====
#> ====
#> MCQ questions input count: 2 
#> MCQ questions with single answer passed: 1 
#> MCQ questions with multiple answers passed: 1 
#> Error found: 0 
#> No valid question found : 0 
#> No valid answer found: 0
#> 
#> ====
#> ====
#> ====
#> Done MCQ!
#> ===
#> Numerical questions input count: 5 
#> Numerical questions with single answer passed: 4 
#> Numerical questions questions with multiple answers passed: 1 
#> Error found: 0 
#> No valid question found : 0 
#> No valid answer found: 0
#> 
#> ====
#> ====
#> ====
#> Done Numerical questions!
#> ====
#> total short answer questions passed is 2. 
#> Valid answer: 2 
#> error in 0 
#> 0 no question has been found 
#> 0 no valid answer has been found
#> 
#> ====
#> ====
#> ====
#> Done Short Answer questions!
#> ====
#> T/F questions passed input: 2 
#> T/F questions Passed: 2 
#> Error found: 0 
#> No question found : 0 
#> No valid answer found: 0
#> 
#> ====
#> ====
#> ====
#> Done T/F questions!
#> ====

The generated file can be imported easily by MOODLE or any other LMS that supports GIFT.

For further documentation instructions, check the package vignette and documentation.

#open vingette
vignette("GIFTr_tutorial")