Online assessments with parametric questions and automatic corrections: an improvement for MCTest using Google Forms and Sheets

In many areas of knowledge it has always been a challenge to evaluate students efficiently. Considering that we are all undergoing a pandemic period, efficient evaluations are necessary and urgent. In our paper we followed the main objective of adapting MCTest. Namely, a web platform devoted to generate and correct individualized exams automatically. We have addressed the problem of distance student evaluation by profiting MCTest. As a result it provides a solution that is free of charge and enables creating parametric questions with LaTeX and Python. The automatic correction is carried out with Google Forms and Sheets, namely our original contribution. The adapted solution was successfully applied to a Calculus class with 100 students.