PySourceCloze

PySourceCloze helps you generate cloze questions in an easy, fast, and efficient way from source files for programming quizzes and exams on Moodle learning management system. Moodle clozes customized by PySourceCloze are easy to fill and easy to read for source code filling. To do so, PySourceCloze uses a simple source code decoration syntax that helps you decorate your source code manually or automatically from your custom lexicons and get the HTML code or XML file needed by Moodle.

Optimize correction time; offer more training sessions to your students beyond multiple choice questions!

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python ≥ 3.7 is required (downloads):

  • PySourceCloze has been tested on Python versions 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10.

• Editing access to Moodle 3 or Moodle 4:

  • PySourceCloze has been tested on Moodle versions 3.1 LTS, 3.5 LTS, 3.6, 3.9 LTS, 3.11, and 4.0 beta.

• Firefox or Safe Exam Browser:

  • PySourceCloze has been tested on Firefox versions 78, 98, and 102.

Installation

You can get PySourceCloze's latest version by zip download or by git clone:

git clone https://github.com/gurivier/pysourcecloze.git

Releases are available from releases list.

If you move or link pysoclz.py, set the environment variable PYSOCLZ_INSTALL_DIR to the installation directory.

Dependencies

pip3 install filetype

Quick Start

Seven steps are detailed on the Quick Start Guide to create your first source cloze quiz.

Help

Print general help page: python3 pysoclz.py -h

Print a command's help page: python3 pysoclz.py <command> -h

Author

Guillaume Rivière, ESTIA, France. (@gurivier)

License

Source code is released under the GPL v3.0 license.

Documentation is released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Versions History

• 1.2.0 (2024-05-24): Latest version
  • Enabling case insensitive answers (added in lexicon files and .clo syntax)
  • New LaTeX output format (TEX) for printing code to fill out on paper sheets
• 1.1.1 (2024-05-22)
  • Fixing one display bug for widths of input fields with Chrome browsers (Chromium 116)
• 1.1.0 (2022-05-13)
  • New option to embed questions' images as base64 code in HTML code
• 1.0.1 (2022-04-16)
  • Fixing one bug with output file path for init command
  • Getting compatible with Windows paths
• 1.0.0 (2022-04-01): Initial release
  • Commands: enclose, fill, clean, sum, generate, init, updates
  • Instructions' languages: EN, FR
  • Samples: C, PHP-HTML, SQL

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Guillaume Rivière, 2022-2024, ESTIA, France.