June 5, 2021
by D. P. Story
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In this article, several enhancements of the eq-pin2corr package are instructed and illustrated. PIN security can now be placed on the Begin Quiz control. If a student needs to retake a quiz, he must get a proctor of the quiz … Continue reading
June 5, 2021
by D. P. Story
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The eq-pin2corr package provides a mechanism for the document author to deny a student from correcting his or her own quiz by placing a password on the functionality of the Correct button. When the student presses the End Quiz control, normally a … Continue reading
May 18, 2021
by D. P. Story
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This article discusses a new key, insertAt, of the \bChoices command and associated commands \answersEndHook and \setAnsEnvLinewidth and how they are used to inject content into a choice field of a quiz.
May 18, 2021
by D. P. Story
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This article discusses a new key, insertAt, of the \bChoices command and associated commands \answersEndHook and \setAnsEnvLinewidth and how they are used to inject content into a choice field of a short-quiz.
May 11, 2021
by D. P. Story
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The short-quiz (the shortquiz environment) was originally created as a self-learning device, wherein the student reads some content (mathematics, for example), solves some exercises (the exercise environment), then takes a short quiz to reinforce and to assess their newly absorbed information. For many years, … Continue reading
May 11, 2021
by D. P. Story
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This article addresses an optional change to how the user experiences viewing the solutions to multiple-choice (MC) and multiple-selection (MS) questions in a shortquiz environment.
April 25, 2021
by D. P. Story
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This article is motivated by an AcroTeX user (Thor G). He wants to ask his students to make a series of calculations, the result of which is to be entered into a \RespBoxMath input box. He is willing to accept the response as … Continue reading
April 16, 2021
by D. P. Story
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This article discusses and documents the option, useEnNums, for the dljlib package designed to work with numbers in the English format. For English (U.K., U.S.A.) and many other countries the period(.) is used for the decimal mark (separator). Review the demonstration … Continue reading
April 16, 2021
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This article discusses and documents the option, useDeNums, for the dljlib package designed to work with numbers in the German format. For Germans and many other countries the comma (,) is used for the decimal mark (separator). Review the demonstration file: … Continue reading
February 27, 2021
by D. P. Story
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With a little effort, a problem* environment can be exploited to create a matching-type problem. The eqe_matching.pdf is an exam created from the exam environment of the eqexam package; the exam has one matching-type question. A second demonstration file named … Continue reading
February 16, 2021
by D. P. Story
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This article is a continuation of qz-matching.pdf, in which the questions and choices have a “hard-wired” order. In this article, the same quiz is used as in qz-matching.pdf, but the questions and choices are randomized. Continue reading qz-matching-rt.pdf in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC outside … Continue reading
February 16, 2021
by D. P. Story
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A variation on a text fill-in question is a type of question based on matching the question to the answer. The author poses a series of questions with a fill-in text field (perhaps created by \RespBoxTxt). As a companion to this series … Continue reading