Re: GIFT question format

[John Noll <jhnoll-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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There is a rather nifty Markdown-based tool for writing quizzes in Markdown 
and translating them into QTI format which most LMSs accept (Moodle and 
Canvas among them).
See : https://github.com/gpoore/text2qti.git

-John Nol
On Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 11:14:35 AM UTC Bastien Dumont wrote:

> I wonder if it is possible to represent such a structure with Pandoc 
> types. But if you want to include snippets of GIFT code into a regular 
> markdown file, you can insert them as raw blocks like this:
>
>
> ```{=gift}
> Mahatma Gandhi's birthday is an Indian holiday on {
> ~15th
> ~3rd
> =2nd
> } of October.
> ```
>
> Then, you can create a Lua filter that parses RawBlocks with "gift" as the 
> "format" attribute and transform it directly into a raw HTML block 
> (provided that you target format is HTML).
>
> Le Wednesday 24 November 2021 à 11:43:45AM, Corentin Dupont a écrit :
> > Hi Joseph,
> > yes, Pandoc readers and writers for the gift format would be great.
> > 
> > Mahatma Gandhi's birthday is an Indian holiday on {
> > ~15th
> > ~3rd
> > =2nd
> > } of October.
> > 
> > This would translate to HTML to something like this:
> > 
> > <form action="[1]http://www.foo.com" method="POST">
> > <div>
> > <label for="Q1">Mahatma Gandhi's birthday is an Indian holiday on</label>
> > <select id="Q1" name="Q1">
> >     <option value="Q1R1">15th</option>
> >     <option value="Q1R2">3rd</option>
> >     <option value="Q1R3">2nd</option>
> >   </select>
> > </div>
> > </form>
> > 
> > 
> > This seems rather straight forward. But what about the server side?
> > In this case, the server would receive "Q1=Q1R1" if you select the first
> > answer.
> > The server needs to be configured with the gift file, but I suppose this 
> is a
> > different process.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 2:59 PM Joseph Reagle <[2]josep...-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > I hadn't encountered GIFT before, neat! You'd have to write custom 
> readers
> > and writers for pandoc to handle this.
> > 
> > [3]https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#custom-readers-and-writers
> > 
> > Otherwise, if you have a GIFT tool, you could simply include the 
> resulting
> > HTML in the markdown -- there's no markdown convention for forms.
> > 
> > A dream feature of mine would be able to write quiz/polls in my
> > markdown-to-revealjs slides, and not have to set up my own server -- 
> which
> > the revealjs poll plugin currently requires. Embedding some of the 
> question
> > services out there would be awesome and possible, but I don't think 
> there's
> > been interest on the revealjs sde.
> > 
> > [4]https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/issues/2763
> > 
> > Then, being able to write questions/answers in a text format would be 
> icing
> > on the cake. 🙂
> > 
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