Exam Design with LaTeX: Using the Exam Document Class, Randomized Choices, AI Prompts, and Online Tools

• Word/Google Docs

• Examview

• Word/Google Docs

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

contents

\end{document}

Spacing & break

• new line:     empty line, \\ , \newline

• new page:   \newpage

• horizontal space:  \hspace{size}       ex. \hspace{1in}, \hspace{1cm}, \hspace{12pt}

• variable horizontal space:  \hfill occupy all empty horizontal space

Text Decorations:

• Bold: \textbf{example}

• italic: \textit{example}

• underline: \underline{example}

Math Display

• Inline

  • \(...\)       ex. \(y=a^2x+bx+c\)

  • $...$       ex. $y=a^2x+bx+c$

• Stand alone

• \[...\]      ex. \[y=a^2x+bx+c\]

• Subject Based

  • Geometry

    • Graphing:   \begin{asy} ... \end{asy}

  • Physics:

    • Vector:   \vec{...}, \overrightarrow{...}

  • Chemical 

    • Molecular structure:   \chemfig{ ... }

  • Programming

    • Automatic Formatting Code   

      • Multiple line code:   \begin{lstlisting} ... \end{lstlisting}

      • Single line code:   \lstinline ! ... !

• Page Size

• Header

• Footer

• Page Number

• Adding Multiple Choice Solution

• Adding Short Response Solution

• Formatting Solutions

• Adding Point Values

• Randomizing Multiple Choices

• Creating Multiple Exam Versions

• Keep the questions, randomize the order of the question

• Create a different AP Statistics question testing the same concept

• Make a different version of this problem but harder

• Quadratic Equation Question Generator [Huo's Coding Lab] - https://codinglab.huostravelblog.com/math/quadratic-equation-question-generator/index.php 

• Creating a full exam