DecksMD 2.7.0

Decks 2.7.0 — exam decks

This release adds exams: draw a set of questions from a deck, answer them in one sitting in any order, and get a graded result at the end. Exams support multiple-choice, type-in, and cloze questions, an optional time limit, and a pass score.

Exams are enabled per profile

Exam behavior is a profile setting. Turn on "Exam questions" under a profile's card parsing settings and every deck mapped to that profile becomes exam-capable. A preinstalled "Exams" profile is mapped to the exams subtag of your deck tag — with the default #decks, tagging a note #decks/exams is all it takes. Each profile also carries exam defaults — number of questions, time limit, minimum score to pass, question and option shuffling, feedback after each question or at the end, question selection, typed-answer grading, and letter or number option labels — which prefill the setup dialog of every exam started from its decks.

Multiple-choice authoring

In an exam-enabled deck, a heading followed by a task list becomes a multiple-choice card:

## Which element is a noble gas?

- [ ] Oxygen
- [x] Argon
- [ ] Nitrogen

- [x] marks a correct option; checking several makes it a multi-select question. Decks on profiles without the setting parse exactly as before — nothing changes for existing decks unless you turn it on.

Taking an exam

Start from the deck's menu (⋮ → "Start exam") or by clicking an exam deck. A setup dialog shows how many questions are available and lets you adjust the defaults; during the exam a navigator lets you move freely between questions, with a countdown when a time limit is set. Besides multiple choice, header-and-answer cards and table rows are asked as type-in questions, and cloze cards show the full sentence with the highlighted parts as type-in blanks. Typed answers are graded exactly, tolerantly of small typos, or self-graded, per the profile's grading mode. Submitting shows a results screen with a per-question breakdown and, when a minimum score is set, pass or fail.

Results follow your vault

Completed exams are stored in the plugin database, merge across devices like review history, and are included in backups.

Also

• A "Demo exam" deck showing every question format is created once after the update; the "Create demo exam deck" command recreates it on demand.
• Multiple-choice cards are interactive in normal review too: pick options, then flip to check them against the solution.
• Questions that can't be graded — no correct option marked, only one option, or a typed answer too long for text grading — get a badge in the flashcard manager and are left out when an exam is drawn.

The database migrates automatically on first load after the update; the Exams profile then appears in the profiles manager.