Hi,
I’ve been searching but failed. Is there any tutorial or guide for creating a practice exam PDF using Writer? I’ve just recently started using LibreOffice after trying to use Google Workspace to create something similar. After looking through Writer Guide, chapter 18 on creating forms I thought it might be possible using text-boxes and data sources. However, it felt rather overwhelming just reading through the guide and basically using try-and-error and not knowing if the ambition was even possible. (I got stuck on the part where pressing enter in an exported PDF doesn’t take you to the next textbox but adds a new line in the one you are in. (Pressing tabs won’t really work either since the idea is to be able to use these documents on a phone and there isn’t a tab-key there) I’m guessing this could be done with a macro of some sort?).
The subject is currently anatomy but I’m considering expanding these pdf-practise-documents to other courses too if I can find a good workflow. The idea is to have an image of ie a bone. On the bone there will be numbers and at the bottom of the page numbered but blank text-boxes corresponding to each number. The student fills in their answers, going through the pdf. Once complete, press [check-answers-button] and the document will check against a “built in” data-source: mark green if correct, red if wrong.
In google sheets I created a sheet in which one could chose between seeing the English name and write in the Latin name and vice versa. The answer would be colored green / yellow / red and given a score (1, 0.5, 0) and summed up to present an overall score. Google Sheets, however, is not a good option when using images and isn’t very compatible with Slides (to use for the visual part). Nor does everyone use Google products making it rather limited and short lived. A PDF however, is very cross platform - if the data-source is embedded within the pdf in some way (like “list-box” but hidden and not clickable but checkable against).
Happy and grateful for any ideas! I’m not a coder but willing to learn some basics if need be
Sincerely,
B