RExam Item Editor

Maintaining and editing databases of RExam items

Feature overview

• Validations checks
  • file and folder naming and required meta-information
  • required subfolder structure
  • joining bilingual items in the database
• Convenience functions for item editing
  • support for generating and naming new items
  • auto-fix function for some violations of the conventions and R
    markdown syntax
  • multiple choice items: correct answers can be indicated with an # (instead of *). exsolution will be set automatically.
• R markdown rendering check (experimental, requires R)

Released under the MIT License

Oliver Lindemann, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Dependencies

Python 3.7+ and the following libraries:

• PySimpleGUI
• appdirs

Optional requirement:

• rpy2 >=3.4
• markdown >=3.0

Installation

Rexam-Item-Editor can be installed via the Pythons package manager pip. Open a shell and call:

python3 -m pip install -U rexam-item-editor

To run Rexam-Item-Editor called this command via your shell:

python3 -m rexam_item_editor

Rendering Rmd File (work in progress)

To render Rmd files directly via the RExam-Item-Editor, you need a functioning installation of R including the R-package exams.

If you don't use the Windows executable, install the Python-package rpy2 (pip install rpy2).

Windows user find two executable files for RExam-Item-Editor, one with and one without R rendering support. RExam-Item-Editor with rendering does not work on computers without a R installation.

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Note: The Item Editor for the ShareStats project is based on RExam-item-Editor.