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title: "Get started with exams2ilias"
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```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  eval = FALSE
)
```

`exams2ilias` exports exercises from `R/exams` to ILIAS question pools. The
package keeps the ILIAS-specific QTI 1.2 logic in one place and currently
targets the import structure validated against ILIAS 9.17.

## Install

Install the released version from CRAN:

```{r}
install.packages("exams2ilias")
```

## Minimal export

The central interface is `exams2ilias()`. A minimal export only needs an
exercise file, an output directory, and a name for the resulting question pool.

```{r}
library(exams2ilias)

outdir <- tempfile("ilias-")
dir.create(outdir)

exams2ilias(
  "lm.Rmd",
  n = 1,
  dir = outdir,
  name = "lm_ilias"
)
```

This creates a ZIP file that can be imported into an ILIAS question pool.
Exercises bundled with `exams`, such as `"ttest.Rmd"` or `"boxplots.Rmd"`, can
be addressed directly by file name.

## Internal template

By default, the package uses the bundled ILIAS template alias `"ilias"`, which
currently resolves to the internal template for ILIAS 9.17. You only need to
set `template` explicitly if you want to use your own XML template file.

```{r}
exams2ilias(
  system.file("exercises", "stats_cloze.Rmd", package = "exams2ilias"),
  n = 1,
  dir = outdir,
  name = "stats_cloze",
  xmlcollapse = FALSE,
  solutionswitch = FALSE
)
```

## Bundled exercises

The package ships with self-contained statistics exercises for the main
question types:

```{r}
example_dir <- system.file("exercises", package = "exams2ilias")
list.files(example_dir, pattern = "\\.[Rr]md$", full.names = TRUE)
```

These exercises are intended both as smoke-tested templates and as a starting
point for your own question authoring workflow.