Annotation of loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Course_Problem_Weight.tex, revision 1.1
1.1 ! bowersj2 1: -Problem weight is set on the \textbf{Parm} screen. The
! 2: \textbf{weight} of the problem is a parameter that is attached to the
! 3: problem that \emph{can} be used by the spreadsheet to calculate the
! 4: points a student will receive for a problem.
! 5:
! 6: The default spreadsheet uses the ``weight'' parameter as the number of
! 7: points a student will receive for completing a problem
! 8: correctly. Custom spreadsheets can use many parameters to compute the
! 9: points a student will receive, such as \emph(status} (completed, not
! 10: solved, excused, etc.), \emph{partial credit}, \emph{number of tries},
! 11: etc., or \textbf{weight} as just another parameter.
! 12:
! 13: Thus, for a given course, the true effect of the \textbf{weight}
! 14: parameter can only be understood in the context of the spreadsheet the
! 15: course is using to determine the number of points a student will
! 16: receive for a given problem. (Using \textbf{weight} as part of the
! 17: spreadsheet calculation can provide an easy way to manipulate how the
! 18: problem distributes points without needing to edit the spreadsheet
! 19: directly.)
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