Integrating LaTeX and Moodle Questionnaires
L. Garcia-Forte
C. Leon-Hernandez
C. Rodriguez-Leon
Abstract: The manufacturing of teaching material conveys the generation of both static (unreactive) data-documents and dynamic (reactive) program-documents based on different technologies. Teaching a subject often implies the maintenance of a large number of both types of documents, usually written in a variety of languages and stored in different formats. Ergo a natural goal for the lecturer is to minimize the amount of work invested during the development and maintenance of the material. There are acceptable solutions regarding the transformation between formats with the same kind of reactivity. This work discusses the problem of integrating Moodle (a Open Source Learning Management System) and LaTeX (a Document Preparation System), proposes a methodology to pursuit this goal and presents a tool to assist in the translation of Moodle Quiz documents to LaTeX.
Resumen: La producción de material para la enseñanza conlleva la generación de documentos tanto estáticos (documentos no-reactivos) como dinámicos (documentos reactivos) basados en diferentes tecnologías. La enseñanza de una asignatura a menudo implica el mantenimiento de un gran número de los dos tipos de documentos, habitualmente escritos en diferentes lenguajes y almacenados en diferentes formatos. En consecuencia, un objetivo natural para el profesor es minimizar la cantidad de trabajo invertida durante el desarrollo y mantenimiento del material. Existen soluciones satisfactorias en lo que se refiere a la transformación entre formatos con el mismo tipo de reactividad. Este trabajo trata el problema de integrar Moodle (un Sistema Gestor de Enseñanza de Código Abierto) y LaTeX (un Sistema de Preparación de Documentos), propone una metodología para conseguir este objetivo y presenta una herramienta que ayuda en la traducción de cuestionarios Moodle a LaTeX..
Luis Garcia-Forte is an Associate Lecturer of the Department of Statistic, Operational Research and Computation at University of La Laguna, Spain. He received his Diploma in Computer Engineering in 1997. His main research activities focus on Programming Languages and Parallel Systems.
Coromoto León-Hernández is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of La Laguna, Spain. He has a Diploma in Mathematics and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1996. His interests are in parallel programming and he is currently responsible for his university's participation in the TRACER project.
Casiano Rodriguez-Leon is a full professor of Computer Science at Universidad de La Laguna, Spain. He received his Diploma in Mathematics and his Doctorate (Ph.D.) in 1978 and 1987, respectively, both from the same University. He uses LaTeX, LaTeX2HTML, Google tools and Moodle to elaborate most of his teaching material.
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