--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Spreadsheet_HowTo_Assessments.tex 2016/01/03 04:51:10 1.5 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Spreadsheet_HowTo_Assessments.tex 2016/08/28 20:35:37 1.6 @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ \textbf{How to deal with multi-part problems} Often, there are several parts in a specific problem. For example, a -problem with four parts may have parts 0, 11, 12, and 13. For a +problem with three parts may have parts 0, 11, 12, and 13, where +part 0, is the part ID reserved for the problem as a whole. For a general spreadsheet, it is often desirable to sum up all of these parts, while not knowing how many parts there are as the spreadsheet is written. @@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ expression over all symbolic names that \index{EXPANDSUM} \texttt{[\&EXPANDSUM(VARNAME;expression)]}. \noindent -For example, for the above assessment with four parts,\\ +For example, for the above assessment with three parts,\\ \noindent \texttt{\&EXPANDSUM(}\texttt{\textbf{PART}}\texttt{;parameter\_}\texttt{\textbf{PART}}\texttt{\_weight{*}stores\_}\texttt{\textbf{PART}}\texttt{\_awarded)}\\ @@ -26,8 +27,7 @@ would become\\ \texttt{parameter\_11\_weight{*}stores\_11\_awarded +}~\\ \texttt{parameter\_12\_weight{*}stores\_12\_awarded +}~\\ \texttt{parameter\_13\_weight{*}stores\_13\_awarded +}~\\ -% bold does not show -% where \textbf{bolded text} is used to highlight what the \texttt{\&EXPANDSUM} function is doing. +where \textbf{bolded text} is used to highlight (PDF version of manual excluded) what the \texttt{\&EXPANDSUM} function is doing.\\ \noindent