> 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.
