Inserting quiz in quarto document

[rputikar]

Hello,

I am interested in inserting a quiz (rendered using something like surveyjs) in a quarto document. Any pointers on how to get it working would be highly appreciated.

thanks, Ranjeet.

[mcanouil]

I would suggest you embed the JavaScript library as a Quarto extension, see https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/creating.html.

[baptiste]

I recently noticed that this online book features a little quiz at the end of many pages; it uses QuizQuestions.jl so it's relying on Julia, but that might be an inspiration even if you're using a different language.

[HeidiSeibold]

I was just researching the same question and came accross this blogpost: https://web.mat.upc.edu/joaquim.puig/posts/webexercises-quiz/

It uses the R package webexercises.

[joelostblom]

Someone made a quarto extension for this https://github.com/nareal/naquiz. I'm curious to hear if there are any plans to support something like this natively in Quarto?

[mcanouil]

Cc @andrewpbray

[cscheid]

No plans.

[saskiaotto]

For anyone still looking for a solution: I recently published the R package
rquiz on CRAN, which provides interactive quizzes as HTML widgets that
work natively in R Markdown and Quarto documents (HTML, Slidy, RevealJS).

It offers three quiz types:

• Single-question quiz with instant visual feedback
• Multi-page quiz with navigation, timer, and results summary
• Fill-in-the-blank (cloze) exercises
  A minimal example in a .qmd file:

library(rquiz)
 
singleQuestion(
  question = "Which function reads a CSV file in base R?",
  options = c("read.csv()", "load.csv()", "import.csv()", "open.csv()"),
  answer = 1
)

No Shiny server needed — it's pure Vanilla JavaScript, so it works in any
static HTML output. It also supports customizable theming, multilingual UI
(EN/DE/FR/ES), answer shuffling, and keyboard/ARIA accessibility.

• CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=rquiz
• Documentation & live demos: https://saskiaotto.github.io/rquiz/
• Quarto demo files (HTML, Slidy, RevealJS): https://saskiaotto.github.io/rquiz/articles/slides-demo.html
  I've been using these quizzes in my university lectures since 2020 and
  finally packaged them up. Happy to answer questions!

[mcanouil]

Thanks for sharing!

[mcanouil]

For reference:

• https://github.com/parmsam/quarto-quizdown
• https://github.com/parmsam/quarto-quiz
• https://surveydown.org/

[saskiaotto]

Thanks for the references! Those are great tools, I wasn't aware of them.
rquiz comes at it from a different angle: it's an R package that creates self-contained htmlwidgets, so quizzes work anywhere htmlwidgets work (R Markdown, Quarto HTML/Slidy/RevealJS, Shiny, RStudio Viewer) without needing a server, a database, or a Quarto extension install. The focus is on quick, visual knowledge checks in teaching materials rather than data-collecting surveys. But I'll definitely check them out — always good to know what's available in this space!