Auto Multiple Choice

Design of MCQ tests with automated correction and grading

Alexis Bienvenüe

Main author

<paamc@passoire.fr>

Anirvan Sarkar

Author and Editor

Hiroto Kagotani

Editor

Frédéric Bréal

Author and Editor

Jean Bérard

Translation from French

Georges Khaznadar

Translation from French

This document can be used according to the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

Abstract

AMC is a set of utilities allowing the use of MCQ written in plain text or LaTeX, and their automated correction and grading from scans of the answer sheets using Optical Mark Recognition (OMR). This document describes its use (for the version 1.5.1~r:6959dcc7).

You can find the AMC web-site at https://www.auto-multiple-choice.net/, and the source code at https://gitlab.com/jojo_boulix/auto-multiple-choice/.

Table of Contents

License

Prerequisites

Operating system
Software
LaTeX

Usage notes

Numerical limitations
Versions
Installation
Access

AMC-TXT syntax

Comments
General options
Questions
Multi-line
Title
Verbatim content
Bold, italic, typewriter, underlined
Images
Pieces of LaTeX code
Questions groups
Arabic language
Japanese language
Including other files
A minimal example (a little bit more complete)

LaTeX source file

A simple example
An example with groups of questions and shuffling
An example with a separate answer sheet
Description of the LaTeX commands
Options for AMC
Mathematical questions with randomized statements

Usage - Graphical interface

Creating a new project and subject
Preparing the subject
Sending exam
Printing and exam
Test
Reading the copies
Correction
Identification of the students
Exporting the scores list
Annotation
Default values edit menu

Alternative usages

Photocopied subject
Post correcting
Nominative sheets

Conflicts with other packages

Packages to load after automultiplchoice
verbatim

Commands manual

Miscellaneous

AMC and TeXLive «vanilla» (ubuntu et debian)
Cut the DOC-sujet.pdf file in several files
processing chain : 2 pages per sheet (2 A5 on 1 A4)
pythontex
AMC and moodle
Configure AMC to use GMAIL

License

Auto Multiple Choice is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.