moodle-to-vikwikiquiz 1.1.0

A CLI for converting a graded Moodle quiz HTML to a vik.wiki quiz wikitext

moodle-to-vikwikiquiz

📖 About

A CLI for converting a graded Moodle quiz saved as an HTML file to a vik.viki quiz wikitext.

📋 Features

• Imports multiple HTML files at once
• Can create a new article on vik.wiki with the generated quiz wikitext and summary pre-filled in the editor
• Can open an existing article on vik.wiki with the summary pre-filled in the editor
• Copies the generated wikitext to the clipboard
• Supports single and multiple choice questions
• Deduplicates questions with the same text
• Asks for correct answers if it can't be determined from a graded question
• Adds the only remaining correct answer automatically if it can be determined from the grade
• Formats LaTeX equations as wikitext
• Creates placeholders for illustrations

📥 Installation

1. Install Homebrew
2. Run the following command in the terminal:

brew install pipx && pipx ensurepath && pipx install moodle-to-vikwikiquiz

🧑‍💻 Usage

moodle-to-vikwikiquiz [--verbose|-v] [--new|-n] [[--grading|-g] grading_method] source_directory parent_article title

Parameters:

• new: Create a new quiz on vik.wiki by automatically opening an edit page for the new article.
• grading_method: + or -. See https://vik.wiki/wiki/Segítség:Kvíz#Pontozás for further info.
• source_directory: The absolute path of the directory where the Moodle quiz HTML files are located. These HTML files should contain the Review page of the quizzes.
• parent_article: The article name of the course on vik.wiki.
• title: How the quiz should be named on vik.wiki. This usually is in the following form: [course name] kvíz – [exam name]. (The hyphen and the part after it can be omitted.) This might be an existing article name if the --new argument is not provided.

Example:

• Convert all Elektronika alapjai Moodle quizzes downloaded to ~/Downloads/downloaded_ELA_quizzes:

  moodle-to-vikwikiquiz --new --grading + ~/Downloads/downloaded_ELA_quizzes "Elektronika alapjai" "Elektronika alapjai kvíz"
  

Always check the output before uploading it to vik.wiki. Upload all images and add their filenames to the quiz manually on vik.wiki.

⏫ Updating

Run the following command in the terminal:

pipx upgrade-all

If you want this to run automatically, create a cron job:

1. Open the crontab file:

crontab -e

2. Add the following line to the end of the file:

@daily pipx upgrade-all

You may replace @daily with @weekly or @monthly.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See the license file (or the GPL-3.0 license tab on GitHub) for its full text.