Why R? Webinar 001 - Achim Zeileis - April 2nd / 8:00 pm GMT+2

First Why R? Webinar!

Starting April 2nd, 8:00 pm (GMT+2 / CEST / Warsaw time).
We'll have one 45-60 minutes long talk on YouTube channel.
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You will be able to ask questions on YouTube as comments to the video. You can also visit our Slack http://whyr.pl/slack/ to stay up to date!

# Speaker
Achim Zeileis (Universität Innsbruck)

# Bio
Achim Zeileis is Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Economics and Statistics at Universität Innsbruck. Being an R user since version 0.64.0, Achim is co-author of a variety of CRAN packages such as zoo, colorspace, party(kit), sandwich, or exams. In the R community he is active as an ordinary member of the R Foundation, co-creator of the useR! conference series, and co-editor-in-chief of the open-access Journal of Statistical Software.

Website: https://eeecon.uibk.ac.at/~zeileis/

# Topic
R/exams: A One-for-All Exams Generator

• Online Tests, Live Quizzes, and Written Exams with R

# Abstract
Many teachers are currently facing the challenge of converting their
courses to distance learning formats that may require many variations of
similar exercises for different learning and assessment formats,
especially in large-lecture courses. In particular, there is an increased
need for online tests and self tests conducted in learning management
systems (such as Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, etc.), possibly also live
quizzes with voting via smartphones or tablets, and maybe even classical written exams at the end of the semester.

The open-source package "exams" for R (http://www.R-exams.org/) provides a one-for-all approach to automatic exams generation, tying together various open-source packages (in R and beyond). It is based on individual exercises for multiple-choice or single-choice questions, numeric or text answers, or combinations of these. The format can be either in R/Markdown or R/LaTeX containing questions/solutions with some random numbers, text snippets, plots/diagrams, R output, or individualized datasets. The exercises can be combined to exams and easily rendered into a number of output formats including PDFs for classical written exams (with automatic evaluation), import formats for various learning management systems, live voting (via ARSnova), and the possibility to create custom output (in PDF, HTML, Docx, ...).