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