edu: An open framework for creating and assessing exercises for R courses

Overview

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This packages provides an Rstudio addin for creating assignments for students with simple R exercises. See vignette: creating assignments.

In addition to creating assignments, there is also simple script for processing the completed assignments collected from students into a single script accompanied with the correct answers. See vignette: assessing assignments

You can use the pre-existing exercises covering multiple themes or you can easily create your own spesific to your organization. Package also has a simple support for different languages. See vignette: manipulating exercises

Install

devtools::install_github("ropengov/edu")

Creating assignments gif

Authors Markus Kainu, Joona Lehtomäki, Leo Lahti