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I am a teacher designing short quizzes for students. My students take a quiz and from that I create a spreadsheet with their answers. Depending on whether they give a correct or false answer I want to omit or reuse that question in the upcoming quiz, respectively.

Can I feed LaTeX the spreadsheet and let it compile separate PDF documents containing questions that they answered false in the previous quiz? How would you go about doing this?

1 row in my spreadsheet equals to 1 student with their answers. I'm saving each question as a separate .tex file.

naphaneal
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philippmikio
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    do you have a Minimal Working Example to show? – naphaneal Jan 04 '19 at 17:53
  • Welcome to TeX.SE. Yes, I am pretty sure you can accomplish what you desire. However, you are basically asking two different and unrelated questions here: 1. Can LaTeX read a CSV file and determine a true/false condition (assuming you can generate a CSV file)? 2. How do I use a conditional typesetting. The specifics will depend a on exactly how you are doing things and want to control the various aspects, so having more details would be helpful. – Peter Grill Jan 04 '19 at 18:17
  • There are numerous questions on this site related to those two. For 1 you could start with Use datatool to read a row from a CSV file, then use the variables in the document? and for 2 there is Conditional typesetting / build. I would recommend you start with those and post a more specific question if you get stuck. Or, you those to construct a MWE that sets up the problem and edit the question to include that. – Peter Grill Jan 04 '19 at 18:18
  • If you use Linux, before of reinvent the wheel you should check what AMC (auto-multiple-choice) does (more of what you are asking) including export statistics by student and by questions to a OpenOffice spreadsheet. This part however is not made by Latex (that make only the exam sheets) but by a GUI. It is available in most used Debian-based distros, so install and try is the easy part (the hard part is understand their own macros and environments, but reading the fine manual, is not so hard). – Fran Jan 04 '19 at 19:21

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