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Updating chapter 15 of cc manual.
\label{Spreadsheet_HowTo_Assessments}
\textbf{How to deal with multi-part problems}
Often, there are several parts in a specific problem. For example, a
problem with three parts would have parts 0, 11, 12, and 13. For a
general spreadsheet, it is not often desirable to sum up all of these
parts, while not knowing how many parts there are as the spreadsheet
is written.
The spreadsheet has a preprocessor which can expand a symbolic
expression over all symbolic names that fit. The general syntax is
\index{EXPANDSUM} \texttt{[\&EXPANDSUM(VARNAME;expression)]}.
For example, for the above assessment with three parts,
\texttt{\&EXPANDSUM(}\texttt{\textbf{PART}}\texttt{;parameter\_}\texttt{\textbf{PART}}\texttt{\_weight{*}stores\_}\texttt{\textbf{PART}}\texttt{\_awarded)}\\
would become
\texttt{parameter\_0\_weight{*}stores\_0\_awarded +}~\\
\texttt{parameter\_11\_weight{*}stores\_11\_awarded +}~\\
\texttt{parameter\_12\_weight{*}stores\_12\_awarded +}~\\
\texttt{parameter\_13\_weight{*}stores\_13\_awarded +}~\\
where \textbf{bolded text} is used to highlight what the
\texttt{\&EXPANDSUM} function is doing.
\noindent
\textbf{What 'tries' means}
In multi-part questions, the exported value for "tries"\index{tries} is now
the average number of tries to get the parts right.
The full data for each part is still stored by the system.
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