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1.1       www         1: \label{exam_basics}
1.2     ! www         2: There are multiple things here that you will need in order to run an exam.
        !             3: \begin{enumerate}
        !             4: \item you will need to be able to get a file from your scanning office
1.1       www         5: that is scan of the bubbled scantron sheets.
1.2     ! www         6: \item you will need to modify the scantronformat.tab file to properly
1.1       www         7: describe what your data file looks like.
1.2     ! www         8: \end{enumerate}
1.1       www         9: 
1.2     ! www        10: To see a homework problem set turned into a bubble sheet exam you need to - set the parameter 'problemtype' for the set to 'exam' in PARM.
1.1       www        11: 
                     12: The set of problems now it should automatically convert to a
                     13: 'bubbled input' display, both online and when printing.
                     14: 
                     15: You should be able to print out all of the exams now and there will be
                     16: an individualized exam for each student.
                     17: 
                     18: When grading the exam you will need to 
1.2     ! www        19: \begin{enumerate}
        !            20: \item goto the set
        !            21: \item click PGRD
        !            22: \item click on 'Grade Scantron Forms'
        !            23: \item you will then need to upload the sacntron data file to the Lon-CAPA
1.1       www        24: server (it is the bottom option on that screen.)
1.2     ! www        25: \item one it is uploaded go back to the 'Grade Scnatron forms' screen
        !            26: \item fill in the top form, and click 'Validate records'
        !            27: \end{enumerate}
1.1       www        28: 
1.2     ! www        29: From there on out it tries to describe what is going on in detail so
1.1       www        30: reading the screen and answering the questions should be straight
                     31: forward.
                     32: 
1.2     ! www        33: We are also supporting annonymous mode of using scantron
1.1       www        34: form exams.
                     35: 
                     36: Basically some people don't want to take the time to hand out 300
                     37: exams to indiviual students (I.e make sure Alice gets Alice's exam and
                     38: Bob gets Bob's exam.) So we have another mode, where we generate
                     39: different exam versions all of which have a 6-letter 'CODE' which
                     40: control the random numbers. The generating and grading of these is a
1.2     ! www        41: bit more complex.
        !            42: \begin{enumerate}
        !            43: \item got to a resource in a course
        !            44: \item hit PRT
        !            45: \item select 'Problem from <mapname> for anonymous students'
        !            46: \item click Next ->
        !            47: \item type in the number of exams you want generated
        !            48: \item if you want to save the CODEs for later so the bubbled input can be
1.1       www        49:     validated, type in a name to save them under
1.2     ! www        50: \item click Next->
        !            51: \item print them out
        !            52: \item fill in some scantron forms
        !            53: \item get them scanned
        !            54: \item upload the scan results
        !            55: \item goto PGRD
        !            56: \item click 'Grade' scantron form
        !            57: \item Select the map, datafile, scantron format that knows where a CODE
1.1       www        58:      is on the form, and the name that CODEs where saved under
1.2     ! www        59: \item click 'Validate Scantron Records'
        !            60: \item follow the on screen prompts.
        !            61: \end{enumerate}